Israel Knohl exclusive interview on video about Gabriel Revelation

Israel Knohl’s new book on his controversial interpretation and analysis of the stone monument with fragmentary Hebrew writing in ink (not engraved) on it: Messiahs and Resurrection in the Gabriel Revelation, will be published May 7, 2009, by Shalom Hartman Institute and Continuum Books.
Prof. Knohl sat down with me the other day to [...]

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More on ‘Messiah Stone’ in Biblical Archaeology mag

Israel Knohl tells us his latest in-depth article about the “Messiah Stone” and its translation is available in the new issue of Biblical Archaeology Review (It’s the cover article for you print types).
What Israel tells us is also new is written confirmation by prominent archeological scholar Ada Yardeni, “premier expert of the script of [...]

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‘Messiah stone’ a rock of ages for today, as well

Interest in the so-called “Messiah stone” and the innovative and provocative translation of it by Shalom Hartman Institute Senior Fellow Israel Knohl continues unabated. The Jerusalem Report now wades into the fray with a typically lengthy but thorough piece on the cover of its latest issue. The piece rambles on about the Dead Sea Scrolls [...]

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Hartman’s Israel Knohl in the news for pre-Jesus Jewish tablet

Shalom Hartman Institute Senior Fellow Israel Knohl is in the news – in a big way – as the New York Times has covered the so-called “Gabriel’s Vision” stone tablet, a sort of “Dead Sea Scroll on stone” from Second Temple days that suggests a Jewish myth/story/prediction of a messiah who would rise from the [...]

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