July 6, 2008
CHRISTIANS ARE THE TRADITIONAL JEWS:
Hebrew tablet suggests tradition of resurrected messiah predates Jesus (Ethan Bronner, July 6, 2008, NY Times)
A 3-foot-tall tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew that scholars believe dates from the decades just before the birth of Jesus is causing a quiet stir in biblical and archaeological circles, especially because it may speak of a messiah who will rise from the dead after three days. [...]Daniel Boyarin, a professor of Talmudic culture at the University of California at Berkeley, said that the stone was part of a growing body of evidence suggesting that Jesus could be best understood through a close reading of the Jewish history of his day.
"Some Christians will find it shocking - a challenge to the uniqueness of their theology - while others will be comforted by the idea of it being a traditional part of Judaism," Boyarin said.
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In other words, at the time of the birth of Jesus, a belief that the Messiah would be resurrected after only three days was as old as the current belief in the infallibility of liberalism is in today's Judaism.
Posted by: Joseph Hertzlinger at July 6, 2008 11:43 PM