{"id":1123,"date":"2012-05-29T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.totellyouthetruth.net\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2012-05-29T07:00:07","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T12:00:07","slug":"archeology-a-dead-sea-scroll-of-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/?p=1123","title":{"rendered":"[Archeology] A Dead Sea Scroll of Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A three-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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a><\/em> published an article about a new-ishly-discovered Dead Sea Scroll of <em>stone<\/em> called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/06\/world\/middleeast\/06stone.html?_r=2&#038;pagewanted=print\" target=\"_blank\">Ancient Tablet Ignites Debate on Messiah and Resurrection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Joel Rosenberg explains,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A respected Israeli scholar and professor at Hebrew University is making an intriguing and compelling case that it is a distinctly Jewish notion to expect the Messiah to come, die as a \u201csuffering servant\u201d as an atonement for sins and the redemption of Israel, and then to rise from the dead on the third day. &#8230;  the scholar is also arguing that this notion of the Messiah rising on the third day is a pre-Christian concept that dates back to before the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem Ephratah.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This discovery has sparked several articles in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bib-arch.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Biblical Archaeology Review<\/a><\/em> \u2014 see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bib-arch.org\/news\/dss-in-stone-news.asp\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bib-arch.org\/bar\/article.asp?PubID=BSBA&#038;Volume=34&#038;Issue=5&#038;ArticleID=14\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bib-arch.org\/bar\/extra.asp?ArticleID=11&#038;ParentArticleID=14\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can also read what Joel Rosenberg shares about this discovery <a href=\"http:\/\/flashtrafficblog.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/17\/dead-sea-scroll-says-messiah-to-come-die-and-rise-on-third-day\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A three-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. The New York Times published an article [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[49],"tags":[123,179,260,275],"class_list":["post-1123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archeology","tag-archeology-2","tag-dead-sea-scrolls","tag-israel","tag-judaism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3hM8I-i7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}