Early Image of Jesus Found in Egyptian Tomb

[warrior1]

Does this count as religious woo?





http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/early-image-of-jesus-found-in-egyptian-tomb-140430.htm

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In this expedition, he led a team of archaeologists from the University of Barcelona, the Catalan Egyptology Society and the University of Montpellier.

“We could be dealing with a very early image of Jesus Christ,” Padró added.

Oxyrhynchus is known for the worship of the Egyptian god of the afterlife Osiris: indeed the underground structure was located in the middle of a processional route that joins the Nile with the Osireion, the temple dedicated to Osiris.

But the painting is from much later, dating from between the sixth and seventh century A.D.

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I love this from the comments section:

Looks like "Live long and prosper" to me.

Young man, obviously short black curly hair, one hand raised. Looks more like Buddha to me.

Very interesting. By "Jesus", they mean someone who lived during the first millenium AD in the Greco-Roman-Mediterranean world. That could only be, about 100 million people. I like how they make it seem like the "Early Christians" too, when they are more or less falling into Islamic times by that point. Basically, it would be like drawing a painting of Christopher Columbus today, and saying it is drawn by the "people who knew and loved him".

It's a selfy!

Wait, how exactly does one make the leap from "young man with curly hair and dressed in a short tunic" to Jesus?

[Sheepshank]

1. I kinda think it looks like an alien

brandishing a glock.

Clearly, an example of time travel.

[newfie11]

7. +1

[FarCenter]

2. Paging Erich Anton Paul von Däniken

We need a second opinion....

[shraby]

3. That picture looks familiar. I've seen it somewhere else some time

ago but I can't remember where. It's the eyes that triggered the memory.

[warrior1]

4. the hand sign is probably this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priestly_Blessing

[frazzled]

8. A memory from childhood

Growing up in attendance at a Reform congregation, this blessing was said by our rabbi at the end of each Friday night service. Children in the congregation with birthdays that week were invited up, and the rabbi would recite a translation that went something like this:

May the Lord bless you and keep you
May the Lord cause his countenance to shine down upon you and be gracious unto you
May the Lord lift up his countenance upon you
And grant you peace

That marked the end of every service, and the one time a year when you got to go up seemed so special. No splitting of the fingers, though, that I remember, though I've seen that image. You are correct.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

5. Looks like he's sticking his tongue out at people. nt

[Vashta Nerada]

6. Is there anything else found in context with this pictograph?

Or was it an assumption?

Assumptions are meaningless.

And it can't be Jesus. The man in the painting isn't white enough.

[intaglio]

9. Nope - not Jesus and not early

An early image from, at best, 500 years after the supposed founder of Christianity. The earliest image known to depict Jesus from Syria 300 years earlier than this "early" image.

[PumpkinAle]

10. Nah, can't be this one has short curly hair and a short tunic

everyone knows that Jesus had long hair, a beard and wore long robes......................... and was white.