2000 Jahre alter "Beweis" für Jesus "beschädigt" ??
Geschrieben von Schamane am 02. November 2002 20:27:50:
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2000 Jahre alter Beweis für mögliche Existenz Jesus schwer beschädigt
Ein 2000 Jahre altes Kästchen, von dem Experten annehmen, dass es der erste Beweis außerhalb der Bibel für die Existenz Jesus ist, wurde auf dem Transport von Tel Aviv nach Toronto beschädigt. Dort sollte es erstmals öffentlich ausgestellt werden.
Das kleine Kalkstein-Kästchen soll die Gebeine von Jesus Christus Bruder Jakob enthalten. Es trägt die Inschrift „Jakob, Sohn des Josef, Bruder von Jesus“ und wird auf das Jahr 63 nach Christus datiert.
Zur Beschädigung gab der Museumsdirektor Dan Rahimi an, dass die vorhandenen Brüche des Kästchens sich erweitert hätten und weitere Brüche hinzugekommen sind. Es sei zwar noch intakt, aber die neuen Beschädigungen könnten zur Instabilität führen.
----------------------------------Casket Linked to Jesus Damaged on Way to Toronto
Fri Nov 1, 5:49 PM ET
By Lesley WroughtonTORONTO (Reuters) - A 2,000-year-old casket, thought by experts to be the first proof of the existence of Jesus Christ outside of the Bible, was damaged en route to Toronto for its first public showing, museum officials said on Friday.
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Slideshow: Stone Artifact Linked to Jesus
The small limestone box, known as an ossuary, is thought to have contained the bones of James, the brother of Jesus. It is inscribed with the words "James, Son of Joseph, Brother of Jesus" and has been dated to about the year 63 A.D.
Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum said the 20-inch-long ossuary arrived from Tel Aviv via New York on Thursday, but when it was opened several new cracks were showing on the back, end and front.
"In transit there must have been further impact to the piece, or some kind of damage...we can't really tell, but incipient cracks grew and other cracks appeared," Dan Rahimi, the museum's director of collections management, told a news conference.
If the ossuary is authentic, it may be the most important find in the history of New Testament archeology, the earliest known non-biblical reference to Jesus, some academics believe.
The owner of the box is reported to have bought it for a few hundred dollars in the 1970s and been unaware of its possible significance.
Its existence was revealed at a news conference in Washington on Oct. 21 by the Biblical Archeology Review magazine.
Rahimi said the box was still intact but there was concern that the new cracks, bigger than a hairline, could make it unstable.
One of the cracks runs through the latter part of the inscription "James, Son of Joseph, Brother of Jesus," he said. The inscription is in Aramaic, a language used some 2,000 years ago.
Rahimi, an archeologist who has worked in the Middle East, believes the cracks can be treated in a museum's conservation lab and would not diminish its overall importance.
The ossuary is valued at about $2 million, he said.The museum said its ceramic and stone expert had examined the box on Friday and prepared two proposals for the owner to consider. Digital images of the damage were also sent to him.
Rahimi said the owner, a private collector in Jerusalem, had packed and sent the ossuary to Toronto. He was described as being upset about the damage, but understood the issues.
Rahimi said among treatments proposed was to inject an adhesive into the cracks that will fill in parts of the damage.
"The options are technical in a way, but one of the questions we will ask the owner is how much cosmetic work he will want done, if any, to the piece," he said, adding, that the museum hoped to start work on the ossuary on Monday.
The museum said it still planned to put the box on display from Nov. 16 to Dec. 29.
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