For the Biblical scholars on my list

[velvetpage]

Gabriel's Revelation suggests that the idea of a messiah dying and being resurrected after three days was already an established concept at the time of Christ, a part of the apocalyptic writings in the tradition of Daniel. An interesting article.

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[kisekileia.livejournal.com]

Interesting! What to make of it, I'm not sure. That last bit, about how New Testament scholars previously assumed that some ideas like this must have been inserted into the Scriptural text by authors after the time of Jesus, reminds me that there's an awful lot we don't know.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

Wow. The Google links at the side of this comment are mind-boggling. I don't think I'll go to any of them.

[kisekileia.livejournal.com]

Ack, I have no idea what links are there because I have a paid account, so I don't see ads. What are they?

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

I get comments in my gmail, so I'm seeing the ads put there by gmail. It scans emails for key words and targets specific ads that have similar key words. So the ads I was seeing were mostly apocalyptic prophecy websites sponsored by the kinds of Christians I actively dislike. Ew.

[kisekileia.livejournal.com]

Oh, okay. Yuck.