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Gabriel’s Revelation

A free eBook featuring the definitive publications on the “Dead Sea Scroll in Stone,” now on display at the Israel Museum

Gabriel’s Revelation

The whole world is talking about “Gabriel’s Revelation,” an inscription that went on display at the Israel Museum last week. The Jerusalem Post called it “the greatest archaeological discovery in the Middle East since the Dead Sea Scrolls.” Epigrapher Ada Yardeni published the first English translation of the Gabriel Stone in Biblical Archaeology Review in 2008. Later that year, Israel Knohl’s BAR article “The Messiah Son of Joseph” offered an additional translation, one that the Associated Press> recently declared “would revolutionize the understanding of early Christianity.”

The script dates to the turn of the era—just like a Dead Sea Scroll. The inked writing is laid out in prepared columns—just like a Dead Sea Scroll. The text contains Bible-like prophecies—just like some of the Dead Sea scrolls. But this document isn’t a “scroll” at all—it’s a stone slab!

The Biblical Archaeology Society is proud to offer the eBook Gabriel’s Revelation as a FREE download. This publication includes the two Biblical Archaeology Review articles that introduced this artifact to the English-speaking world. Published just in time for the Israel Museum exhibit “I Am Gabriel”: A Scroll in Stone from the Time of Herod, this eBook provides translations and contexts for the artifact and contemporary belief systems.

Ada Yardeni’s Biblical Archaeology Review article “A New Dead Sea Scroll in Stone” was the first English translation of “Gabriel’s Revelation” in 2008. Later that year, Israel Knohl’s “The Messiah Son of Joseph” caused an enormous stir, as Knohl deciphered a line reading “In three days, you shall live.” Knohl understood these lines from “Gabriel’s Revelation” to mean “in three days, you shall return to life (be resurrected).” Knohl’s translation and discussion, reprinted in full in this FREE eBOOK, have been a subject of recent discussion in international publications from The Telegraph to Fox News.

Knohl’s translation of the first-century B.C. inscription on “Gabriel’s Revelation”—and its insights into Jewish messianism—pre-date the life of Jesus. What does “Gabriel’s Revelation” tell us about the Jewish concept of a messiah leading up to the life of Jesus? Download this FREE BAS eBOOK to read Ada Yardeni’s analysis of the artifact, and Israel Knohl’s discussion of the Jewish origins of a suffering messiah and resurrection on the third day.


Download your FREE copy of the eBook “Gabriel’s Revelation.”


Prefer to Read the Articles in the BAS Library?

Yardeni, Ada. “A New Dead Sea Scroll in Stone?.” Biblical Archaeology Review, Jan/Feb 2008, 60-61.

Knohl, Israel. “The Messiah Son of Joseph.” Biblical Archaeology Review, Sep/Oct 2008, 58-62, 78.

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Notes

The inscription dubbed “Gabriel’s Revelation” is from the collection of David Jeselsohn of Zurich and Jerusalem, who lent the stone to the Israel Museum for the temporary exhibition. We continue to be grateful to collectors who allow their artifacts and inscriptions to be studied by scholars and shared with the public, especially when, like this one, they are helpful in understanding our common past.


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