09 July, 2008

The Dead Sea Scroll Stone

There has been some hubbub in the press recently about a stone referred to as "Gabriel's Vision" that purportedly casts doubt on the resurrection story. Being something of a Dead Sea Scroll enthusiast myself I trolled around for more information, something more down to earth and less headline driven. There is a pretty good article here from the Biblical Archeology Review with indications of more to come, but more importantly is an English translation of the transcript of the text linked in the article found here.

It is missing text in places, and much of the existing text is fragmentary, as is often the case in material such as this. It appears to me there is as much twisting done with this text by the media as was done by those who quote works from the Nag Hammadi Library to support a married Jesus, but I'll let the reader decide.

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