And raised on the 3d day?

Thanks, Scot, for beating me to the punch on this.  :)  I just read the wire service announcement in this morning's Denver Post.  As usual, someone finds a way to imagine that this would challenge historic Christian faith, since it would supposedly threaten the uniqueness of Jesus' resurrection.  In fact, it would do no such thing.  What Christians claim is unique is that Jesus of Nazareth was bodily raised from the dead to life unending, not that the idea of a resurrected Messiah was without precedent.  Paul in 1 Corinthians 15:4 actually believes that Christ was raised "according to the Scriptures."  Whichever passages he imagined deriving this idea from (Hosea 6:2? Psalm 16:10?) could have suggested themselves to other Jewish writers as well.  While there are instances in which the New Testament typologically applies an Old Testament text to a New Testament event in unprecedented ways, suggested first only by the actions of Jesus himself, the more one finds evidence for other Jews thinking similarly (but independently) about their Scriptures, the more credible such an interpretation of the Old Testament becomes, and the more Christian faith is strengthened.  Of course, we await the scholarly debate to determine if this tablet in fact says what is being claimed of it.  I'm reminded of the claim in the early 1990s about a newly translated Dead Sea Scroll fragment that supposedly talked about a "slain Messiah" when it turned out to be about the Messiah slaying his enemies instead!

Can't wait to see the ink spilled. Love both Blombergs and McKnight's work