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Dan Wallace reported last year on the ancient New Testament manuscripts discovered by Western scholars after they had been preserved for years, largely unnoticed, in Albanian archives.  Today I had a chance to examine some of them.

At the Near East Archaeological Society meetings in Providence, RI, this Friday, Dead Sea Scrolls experts Peter Flint and Martin Abegg announced and discussed the discovery of a new scroll fragment from Qumran.  On its own, it doesn't seem very exciting compared to most of the Scrolls--just a fragment of Nehemiah 3:14-15 with names of people involved in rebuilding the wall in Jerusalem and the locations at which they worked.

This blog concludes the book review begun in our last two.

This blog continues where our last one left off. 

Spring 2007 saw the sensational claims by a new book and a Discovery Channel broadcast that the family tomb of Jesus had been discovered in the south Jerusalem Talpiot neighborhood.  The Ted Koppel special aired immediately afterwards pitted one of the book’s authors and a maverick scholar who supported him against a team of four biblical scholars, theologians and archeologists from evangelical, mainline Protestant and Catholic perspectives.  Now an outstanding anthology of scholarly respons

Go to http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/07/1184950.aspx and click on the links to the Hebrew and English texts of the new stone causing the stir about possibly referring to the concept of a resurrected Messiah before the time of Jesus.  Look at lines 78-85, which must be what Israel Knohl is referring to.  Notice what's actually in the text vs. what he has to supply.  The text itself, reads merely :

Whatever you think of the logic of Gamaliel's argument as described in Acts 5 (leave the disciples alone and if the movement is not of God it will go away--but that sure hasn't worked for Islam!), it's interesting to apply it to first-century rabble rousers.