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COURTESY OF THE BADIA EPIGRAPHIC SURVEY PROJECT

JESUS WAS (WORSHIPED) HERE. Among the inscriptions found in Wadi al-Khudari was this memorial text. Its author, Wahb-El, closes his remembrance with a prayer invoking a divine entity called ‘sy, likely pronounced Īsay. Astonishingly, such spelling corresponds to the name of Jesus as found in the Quran. Is this the earliest known reference in Arabia to Jesus?