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From James Tabor...
July 6, 2008
I recently highlighted on my Jesus Dynasty Blog the fascinating interpretation of Prof. Israel Knohl of Hebrew University of a new “Dead Sea” style text, the so-called “Gabriel Revelation,” inscribed on a stone tablet. The New York Times (Sunday, July 6, 2008) offers a comprehensive discussion of the storm of controversy that Knohl’s interpretation has sparked: “Tablet Ignites Debate on Messiah and Resurrection.” This is a story you will not want to miss, but if you want to download Prof. Knohl's scholarly article from Journal of Religion I suggest you do so soon at the link above on my Blog. I imagine the NYTimes story appearing tomorrow morning will cause such interest there is no guarantee the full article will continue to be offered free-of-charge on the Internet.
Several scholars, myself included, along with Michael Wise, Michael Fishbane, and Israel Knohl, have argued for some years now that the "Suffering Messiah" ideas, reflected in our Synoptic Gospels, were not creations of the Christian communities after Jesus' death, nor even unique to Jesus himself, but in fact were ideas current within messianic varieties of Judaism reaching back into the 2nd century BCE or earlier.
www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/20...blished/
July 6, 2008
I recently highlighted on my Jesus Dynasty Blog the fascinating interpretation of Prof. Israel Knohl of Hebrew University of a new “Dead Sea” style text, the so-called “Gabriel Revelation,” inscribed on a stone tablet. The New York Times (Sunday, July 6, 2008) offers a comprehensive discussion of the storm of controversy that Knohl’s interpretation has sparked: “Tablet Ignites Debate on Messiah and Resurrection.” This is a story you will not want to miss, but if you want to download Prof. Knohl's scholarly article from Journal of Religion I suggest you do so soon at the link above on my Blog. I imagine the NYTimes story appearing tomorrow morning will cause such interest there is no guarantee the full article will continue to be offered free-of-charge on the Internet.
Several scholars, myself included, along with Michael Wise, Michael Fishbane, and Israel Knohl, have argued for some years now that the "Suffering Messiah" ideas, reflected in our Synoptic Gospels, were not creations of the Christian communities after Jesus' death, nor even unique to Jesus himself, but in fact were ideas current within messianic varieties of Judaism reaching back into the 2nd century BCE or earlier.
www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/20...blished/
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