For People Who Think There Was No Historical Jesus

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Xtians ignore the ramifications of the Gabriel Revelation Stone like the plague.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0...85,00.html

A 3-ft.-high tablet romantically dubbed "Gabriel's Revelation" could challenge the uniqueness of the idea of the Christian Resurrection. The tablet appears to date authentically to the years just before the birth of Jesus and yet — at least according to one Israeli scholar — it announces the raising of a messiah after three days in the grave. If true, this could mean that Jesus' followers had access to a well-established paradigm when they decreed that Christ himself rose on the third day — and it might even hint that they they could have applied it in their grief after their master was crucified. However, such a contentious reading of the 87-line tablet depends on creative interpretation of a smudged passage, making it the latest entry in the woulda/coulda/shoulda category of possible New Testament artifacts; they are useful to prove less-spectacular points and to stir discussion on the big ones, but probably not to settle them nor shake anyone's faith.

Subsequent to the publishing of this article Dr. Ada Yardeni, one of the leading experts in the field, has agreed with Israel Knohl's reading of the word in question.

http://www.bib-arch.org/bar/extra.asp?Ar...ticleID=14

And the xtians are still running!