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Málið snýst um stein með 87 línum af hebresku letri sem séfræðingar hafa tímasett fyrir krist og virðist minnast á messías sem muni deyja og rísa upp 3 dögum síðar.  Nú, það sem sumum þykir merkilegt við þetta er að hugmyndin er þá eldri en Kristur og mætti þá túlka sem hluta af gyðinglegri hefð eða allavega hugmynd sem þekktist á 1.öld fyrir Krist o.s.frv.  Um þetta deila menn þó grimmt og sínist sitt hverjum.

Nokkuð er víst síðan að umræddur steinn fanst, líklega nálægt Dauðaafi.  Í fyrstu gerðu menn sér ekki grein fyrir mikilvægi hans... en málið er umdeilt:

Tablet Ignites Debate on Messiah and Resurrection

"JERUSALEM — 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.

If such a messianic description really is there, it will contribute to a developing re-evaluation of both popular and scholarly views of Jesus, since it suggests that the story of his death and resurrection was not unique but part of a recognized Jewish tradition at the time.

The tablet, probably found near the Dead Sea in Jordan according to some scholars who have studied it, is a rare example of a stone with ink writings from that era — in essence, a Dead Sea Scroll on stone.

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Mr. Knohl is part of a larger scholarly movement that focuses on the political atmosphere in Jesus’ day as an important explanation of that era’s messianic spirit. As he notes, after the death of Herod, Jewish rebels sought to throw off the yoke of the Rome-supported monarchy, so the rise of a major Jewish independence fighter could take on messianic overtones.

In Mr. Knohl’s interpretation, the specific messianic figure embodied on the stone could be a man named Simon who was slain by a commander in the Herodian army, according to the first-century historian Josephus. The writers of the stone’s passages were probably Simon’s followers, Mr. Knohl contends.

The slaying of Simon, or any case of the suffering messiah, is seen as a necessary step toward national salvation, he says, pointing to lines 19 through 21 of the tablet — “In three days you will know that evil will be defeated by justice” — and other lines that speak of blood and slaughter as pathways to justice.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/world/middleeast/06stone.html?_r=3&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

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[Kristinn Theódórsson, 7.7.2008 kl. 00:22]

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