The address at the bottom of this post will take you to an article by the New York Times (it figures) concerning a "deadly blow" to Christendom as we know it. The big news: Hebrew literature speaks of a suffering Messiah! Woah - what? Really? Uh oh... time I ask for my brain back (and my money) because I didn't realize that I'd had that one pulled over my eyes.
Do these people really think they are doing scholarly work? I mean, have they read Hebrew Scripture? Okay, so let's take a trip back to the oldest Hebrew literature we can find... oh, say, Genesis. How about Genesis 3:15 where God says to the serpent, "And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel." Sounds like the Deliverer is going to suffer. Not to mention the book of Isaiah and the whole bloody sacrificial system.
Oh, and then there was Jesus who talked about His own death all the time. Said He was going to die and be raised on the third day, but that must have been added by His followers afterward. Funny that they should add that and then die for it, hmmm. And never-mind the proliferation of Hebrew and Christian literature which document this Jesus fellow thoroughly. Let's be real scholars and bet our eternities on a single stone with a few words on it that every elementary Hebrew student knows like "three" (sh'losh) and day (yom) and prince (Tsar). Let's fill in the blanks, or ignore them because this is rock solid evidence that Christianity is a historical hoax! (Plus, the font of the Hebrew letters put it just before Jesus lived, not after, because font changes a lot in 100 years.)
I should probably address this with a more refined article, but the whole issue seems like a feeble attempt to discredit Christianity.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/world/middleeast/06stone.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
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I do find it rather incredulous the total disregard for any sort of near-literal hermeneutic taken by these Jewish scholars. I am often astounded that a people given 2,000 years of divine revelation would deny Christ in His time, but even more vehemenently deny him now. How does a Messianic tablet disprove Christ as Messiah, especially in light of the countless other OT Messianic passages? It's not as if this is completely novel.
It's heartbreaking that the pursuit of hebrew scholarship is to disprove Scripture itself. I trust that as we progress in our studies of Hebrew, we may use the awesome power of God's word not merely academically but to teach and admonish our brethren in Christ.
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