What light, if any, can biblical archaeology throw on the most important event in Christianity, namely the resurrection of Jesus?
Skeptics say it’s pure legend with no material evidence to even render it worth considering.
But a marble slab uncovered by archaeologists in Nazareth says otherwise.
It’s known as the Nazareth Inscription.
Dated to the first century A.D., most likely during the reign of Tiberius or Claudius, the slab has a 14 line inscription.
The first line is “Edict of Caesar.”
But the most interesting part comes next.
The edict pronounces the death penalty for anyone stealing bodies from graves or moving the stones that seal tombs.
Now why would Rome have found it necessary to issue an imperial edict on this subject at that time?
There is only one answer. The Jews and the Romans had found Jesus’ tomb to be empty. There was no body in there.
The dispute was over how this came to be. The official Roman position was the disciples stole the body.
Evidently the edict was a response to the rapidly spreading moment of Jews who believed the reports of a resurrected Messiah.
This is not an attempt to prove the resurrection, but to reveal an important archaeological artifact that seems to verify the empty tomb and also register Rome’s reaction to that fact.
More here: https://a.co/d/07CoVJCP
A gang of goons, acting on the authority of King Zedekiah of Judah, threw the prophet Jeremiah into a pit.
Two of them were Jehucal son of Shelemiah and Gedaliah son of Pashur.
Both men have been historically corroborated through the archaeological discovery of clay seal impressions dated to the sixth century B.C. bearing their names.
And that’s me, below, in the actual pit into which Jeremiah was tossed. Debbie my wife took his short video of me in Jerusalem earlier this year.
But how did Jeremiah survive?
“Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs of the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon…” (Jeremiah 38:7)
So the king’s own men put Jeremiah in there, but a low-ranking Ethiopian decided to take matters into his own hands.
Ebed-melech approached the king—a daunting task that involved great personal risk—and remarkably got permission to get Jeremiah out.
It took 30 men to pull Jeremiah out since he was trapped in the caked mud at the ...
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