Christ the Magikian?
Oct. 5th, 2008 11:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

-A bowl, dating to between the late 2nd century B.C. and the early 1st century A.D., is engraved with what may be the world's first known reference to Christ. The engraving reads, "DIA CHRSTOU O GOISTAIS," which has been interpreted to mean either, "by Christ the magician" or, "the magician by Christ."
From the article:
"If the word "Christ" refers to the Biblical Jesus Christ, as is speculated, then the discovery may provide evidence that Christianity and paganism at times intertwined in the ancient world."
Read the rest of the article here.
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Date: 2008-10-06 04:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-06 01:44 pm (UTC)Personally, I feel the "need" to separate paganism from Christianity is just a holdover from a time when "purity" was the end-all, be-all of religious practices.
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Date: 2008-10-07 05:51 pm (UTC)Given the timespan in the article, a relation to Jesus or the Messiah to keep it in general terms, has a very low propability, me thinks.