Gabriel's Revelation

Posted by Kushana Torumekia at 7/7/2008 4:53 PM
Categories: Judaism,Christianity,Old Testament Apocrypha,Dead Sea Scrolls,Intertestamental Literature,Messiah,Gabriel's Vision,Christ,Hebrew Bible Apocrypha,Paleography,Apocalypse
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A colleague in Hebrew Bible Studies just forwarded this to me:

http://tinyurl.com/5gmdll

I don't know any more than I have read, here:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/999719.html

I would like to look at a larger photograph of the stone before commenting.

Follow up:

http://tinyurl.com/5q4t2x

Despite the hair-on-fire tone, this article contains additional details:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article4295804.ece


And finally:

http://www.bib-arch.org/archive.asp?PubID=BSBA&Volume=34&Issue=1&ArticleID=16&extraID=14

http://www.bib-arch.org/news/dss-in-stone-news.asp

The "Apocalypses" section of Willis Barnstone's The Other Bible (ISBN 978-0062500304) will give you a feel for this very popular ancient genre (the Biblical book of Revelations is another, more familiar, example.)

Also: http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/07/1184950.aspx

-Kushana


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