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July 17, 2008 About ten years ago a stone block was found in the area of the Dead Sea. Upon the stone tablet was a two column text, emulating a scroll, and written in ink. This should probably be considered part of the Dead Sea Scrolls Corpus, and scholars have given it the title of "Gabriel's Revelation" Gabriel's Revelation reveals a lot about Daniel Boyarin and Israel Knohl, two scholars who recently commented on the concepts found within the text. The conclusion they should have drawn from studying the 'Gabriel' text is that New Testament Christianity comes right out of Post-Malachi and Pre-70's Judaism! Daniel Boyarin hints at this, but instead of saying 'Bible Believing Christians were correct all along', he couches it as an idea that will comfort some Christians. He misses the fact that when we Christians say we 'believe' the Bible, we do mean the New Testament and Tanakh! Dear Professor Boyarin, there is nothing new in the 'Gabriel' text for Tanakh Believing Christians! We've been comforted by a close reading of the Jewish history of Jesus' day for Two-thousand years now; but, thank you for the sentiment. The writer of Matthew and the writer of Hebrews (both New Testament Books written by Jews) quote from the very same Tanakh sources as the writer of Gabriel's Revelation, namely, Daniel, Zechariah and Haggai. As for Professor Knohl, who believes there was no "textual evidence" for a suffering Messiah before Gabriel's Revelation, he may have over looked the Isaiah Text. The Jews of the First Century didn't miss what was written in Isaiah, and the New Testament writers used it to argue for a 'suffering Servant'. Even the Sect involved with the Dead Sea Scrolls struggled with this duality. Like Professor Boyarin, Professor Knohl's response is breath-taking! He says the text of the 'Gabriel Revelation' "should shake our basic view of Christianity." Excuse me Professor Knohl, but Christians basically believe that the death and resurrection of the Messiah was prophesied! It was prophesied in Tanakh and later the writers of the Gabriel Text picked up on this. In the Inter-Testamental Period, many Tanakh Texts were Targumed; most orally. Where do you think the Jews who wrote the 'Gabriel Revelation' got it from? What the 'Gabriel' text should do is shake our basic view of Judaism. Further, Professor Knohl uses the 'Gabriel' text to find a "different meaning" for the Last Supper. He argues that the "shed blood is not for the sins of people but to bring redemption to Israel." In Theological terms, Professor Knohl, this is a synonymous parallelism; it means the same thing! Finally, the Professor's comments and conclusions prove the truth of Philosophic Parallaxism; what one sees depends on where one stands. In the case of the Professors, they are standing on thier heads. They see only how 'Gabriel's Revelation' reflects on the New Testament and Christianity, but they miss how it is reflective of Tanakh and Judaism in the Inter-Testamental Period. ------------ About the author: Joe Magoo is trained as a Theologian and Church Historian; he resides on Long Island, New York. Email: joe572001us@yahoo.com Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com. Please link to this article rather than copying and pasting it onto your site (which would be unauthorized and illegal). |
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