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While the FBI worked to analyze a partial fingerprint on a fragment of the bomb, the Cambridge police department searched for a suspect but never found...
...your article on the search for Jesus, you stated that German scholar Carsten Peter Thiede thinks a tiny papyrus fragment containing a couple of verses of the Magdalen St. Matthew's Gospel could have been written around A.D. 70 by someone who was an eyewitness to the events described [RELIGION, April 8]. A 1st century date for all four Gospels is now agreed upon by most scholars. Even if St. Matthew's Gospel were written as early as Thiede suggests, this would tell us nothing about the historical value or theological truth of its contents. A Gospel written...
...Search for Jesus" included a page on the book I wrote with Matthew d'Ancona, Eyewitness to Jesus, about papyrus fragments that are the oldest bits of St. Matthew's Gospel. While it is encouraging that you gave our research such prominence, your article could mislead readers. It is not my opinion that a papyrus of St. Luke's Gospel in a Paris library "was written between A.D. 63 and A.D. 67." That papyrus, certainly the oldest of this Gospel, belongs to the late 1st or early 2nd century. The approximate dates of the four oldest Gospel papyri...
...inscription ever recovered from ancient Palestine. Found in 1868 at the ruins of biblical Dibon and later fractured, the basalt stone wound up in the Louvre, where Lemaire spent seven years studying it. His conclusion: the phrase "House of David" appears there as well. As with the Tel Dan fragment, this inscription comes from an enemy of Israel boasting of a victory - King Mesha of Moab, who figured in the Bible. Lemaire had to reconstruct a missing letter to decode the wording, but if he's right, there are now two 9th century references to David's dynasty...
...repository for bones) with the inscription JOSEPH SON OF CAIAPHAS. This marked the first archaeological evidence that the high priest Caiaphas, who according to the Gospels presided at the Sanhedrin's trial of Jesus, was a real person. So, indisputably, was Pilate. In 1961, diggers in Caesarea found the fragment of a plaque indicating that a building had been dedicated by PONTIUS PILATUS, PREFECT OF JUDEA...