Cradle in the Sun
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Last fall I gave a speech in Cleveland at the closing of a wonderful exhibition, "Cradle of Christianity." The exhibit has now been relocated to Ft. Lauderdale for the winter, and it later travels on to Emory. The photo at right, at the quote below, come from an article in the Sun-Sentinel:
The exhibit, drawn from a show at The Israel Museum in Jerusalem, has some of the greatest treasures of biblical archaeology: the burial box of Caiaphas, the high priest who condemned Jesus; the only known inscription with the name of Pontius Pilate, the governor who sentenced Jesus to be crucified; pieces of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the astonishing cache of ancient texts found in the Judean desert more than a generation ago.
"Cradle of Christianity" deals with the formation of the new faith over seven centuries, from its birth as a Judaic sect in the first century to its triumph as the state religion of the Byzantine Empire.
And a heads up: I'll be giving a speech on January 30th at the closing of the exhibition, and I''ll be at the exhibition yet again, when it moves to Emory this spring and summer.
Labels: Biblical Archaeology, Christianity, Judaism
Posted by B Feiler at 10:53 AM
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