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Footnotes

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The stone, which belongs to David Jeselsohn of Zurich, was published in Ada Yardeni, “A New Dead Sea Scroll in Stone?BAR 34:01, and Israel Knohl, “The Messiah Son of Joseph,BAR 34:05.

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Ada Yardeni has agreed with Knohl’s reconstruction of the word “live.”—Ed.

Endnotes

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See also Ada Yardeni and Binyamin Elizur, “Document: A First-Century B.C.E. Prophetic Text Written on a Stone, First Publication,” Cathedra 123 (2007), pp. 155–66 (Hebrew).

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Israel Knohl, “‘By Three Days, Live’: Messiahs, Resurrection, and Ascent to Heaven in Hazon Gabriel,” Journal of Religion 88 (2008), pp. 147–58.

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Israel Knohl, The Messiah before Jesus: The Suffering Servant of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000).

4.

See John J. Collins, “A Messiah before Jesus?” in John J. Collins and Craig A. Evans, eds., Christian Beginnings and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006), pp. 15–35.