Newly-Found Document Holds Eyewitness Account of Jesus Performing Miracle
Historian and archivist Ignazio Perrucci, was
hired by the Vatican authorities in 2012, to sort,
analyze and classify some 6,000 ancient documents
that had been uncovered in the gigantic archive vaults. He was already very
excited when he noticed that the author of the text was the famous Roman
historian Velleius, but he was completely stunned when he realized the
nature of the content.
Professor Perrucci found the text in the archives of
the Vatican, while searching amongst a bundle of personal letters and other
trivial documents dating from the Roman era.
The text as a whole is a narrative of the author’s return journey
from Parthia to Rome that occurred in 31 AD, recorded in
a highly rhetorical style of four sheets of parchment. He describes
many different episodes taking place during his trip, like a a violent sandstorm
in Mesopotamia and visit to a temple in Melitta (modern day Mdina, in
Malta).
Upon entering town, Jesus would have visited the
house of a woman named Elisheba, who had just given birth to a stillborn
child. Jesus picked up the dead child and uttered a prayer in
Aramaic to the heavens, which unfortunately the author describes as
“immensus”, meaning incomprehensible. To the crowd’s surprise and
amazement, the baby came back to life almost immediately, crying and
squirming like a healthy newborn.
Marcus Velleius Paterculus, being a Roman officer of
Campanian origins, seems to perceive Jesus Christ as a great doctor and miracle
man, without associating him in any way to the Jewish concept of Messiah.
This new text from an author known for his reliability, brings a brand new perspective on the life of the historical character that is Jesus of Nazareth. It comes to confirm the Gospels on the facts that he was known for accomplishing miracles and that his sheer presence in a town was enough to attract crowds of people.
A complete and official translation of the document should be made available online in many different languages over the next few weeks, but the impact of the discovery is already felt in the scientific community. Many scholars have already saluted the finding as one of the greatest breakthrough ever realized in the study of the historical life of Jesus, while others have expressed doubts about the conclusions of Professor Perrucci and demand for more tests to be performed by other scientific institutions before drawing any conclusions.
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Newly-Found Document Holds Eyewitness Account of Jesus Performing Miracle
Rome| An Italian expert studying a first century document written by the Roman historian Marcus Velleius Paterculus
that was recently discovered in the archives of the Vatican, found what
is presumed to be the first eyewitness account ever recorded of a
miracle of Jesus Christ. The author describes a scene that he allegedly
witnessed, in which a prophet and teacher that he names Iēsous de Nazarenus, resuscitated a stillborn boy and handed him back to his mother.
Historian and archivist Ignazio Perrucci, was hired by the Vatican authorities in 2012, to sort, analyze and classify
some 6,000 ancient documents that had been uncovered in the gigantic
archive vaults. He was already very excited when he noticed that the
author of the text was the famous Roman historian Velleius, but he
was completely stunned when he realized the nature of the content.
Professor
Perrucci found the text in the archives of the Vatican, while searching
amongst a bundle of personal letters and other trivial documents dating
from the Roman era.
The text as a whole is a narrative of
the author’s return journey from Parthia to Rome that occurred in 31
AD, recorded in a highly rhetorical style of four sheets of
parchment. He describes many different episodes taking place during his
trip, like a a violent sandstorm in Mesopotamia and visit to a temple in
Melitta (modern day Mdina, in Malta).
The part of the text that really caught
M. Perrucci’s attention is an episode taking place in the city of
Sebaste (near modern day Nablus, in the West Bank). The author first
describes the arrival of a great leader in the town with a group of
disciples and followers, causing many of the lower class people from
neighbouring villages to gather around them. According to Velleius, that
great man’s name was Iēsous de Nazarenus, a Greco-Latin translation of Jesus’ Hebrew name, Yeshua haNotzri.
Upon entering town, Jesus would have
visited the house of a woman named Elisheba, who had just given birth to
a stillborn child. Jesus picked up the dead child and uttered a prayer
in Aramaic to the heavens, which unfortunately the author describes as
“immensus”, meaning incomprehensible. To the crowd’s surprise and
amazement, the baby came back to life almost immediately, crying and
squirming like a healthy newborn.
Marcus
Velleius Paterculus, being a Roman officer of Campanian origins, seems
to perceive Jesus Christ as a great doctor and miracle man, without
associating him in any way to the Jewish concept of Messiah.
This new text from an author known for his reliability, brings a brand new perspective on the life of the historical character that is Jesus of Nazareth. It comes to confirm the Gospels on the facts that he was known for accomplishing miracles and that his sheer presence in a town was enough to attract crowds of people.
A complete and official translation of the document should be made available online in many different languages over the next few weeks, but the impact of the discovery is already felt in the scientific community. Many scholars have already saluted the finding as one of the greatest breakthrough ever realized in the study of the historical life of Jesus, while others have expressed doubts about the conclusions of Professor Perrucci and demand for more tests to be performed by other scientific institutions before drawing any conclusions.
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