Buried
Fr: Ari
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crew building the
temple found a buried
building!
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7:36pm Thu, Apr 1
CB#: Ari
Fr: Elijah
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i heard. prolly just another
old shack. don’t forget my
book 2morow.
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7:39 Thu, Apr 1
CB#: Elijah
Fr: Ari
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haha ur prolly right. ppl
hardly ever find anything
in Jerusalem anymore
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7:43 Thu, Apr 1
CB#: Ari
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From: Maria M Evangelista <m.evang1@ju.edu>
Date: Fri, Apr 30, 2990 at 2:52 PM
Subject: Issues in Israel
To: Sara Daniels <s.daniels.3@nyu.edu>
Omg! Can you believe all of this would happen while I’m here studying abroad? It’s so awesome. You would never believe how insane it is over here. Everyone is speculating on who it is, but all my Jewish friends remain pretty uninterested in the whole thing. Probably because it was the Vatican that found it. I don’t care who found it, I just find the whole thing incredibly interesting (especially because it’s the result of someone actually daring to go against the church). See what we miss out on when people are sheep?
Sorry, didn’t mean to get preachy on ya. Just wanted to drop you a line cause this all made me miss our debates. Hope you’re doing well up in the Big Apple.
Ciao!
-M
From: Sara Daniels <s.daniels.3@nyu.edu>
Date: Fri, Apr 30, 2990 at 6:33 PM
Subject: Re: Issues in Israel
To: Maria M Evangelista <m.evang1@ju.edu>
I am soooooooo jealous right now! I hate you almost as much as I miss you. All the Jewish people here (which, you know is like everyone) are intensely interested in the goings on over there. I guess if you’ve been living near the Holy City for so long you just kind of become immune to “discoveries”. Wasn’t the last major find the body of a goat or something? Anyway, all of us keep coming up with theories as to the identity. Paulo, our resident atheist, is convinced its Jesus :-P
Speaking of theory, I gotta hit the books for my big test. Hopefully we’ll find out the truth soon.
Much love! (and equal amounts of jealousy)
-S
P.S. I miss your rants about the Catholic Church and it’s “lies”. Now I have nothing to do between classes. :)
“Time heals old pain, while it creates new ones.”
From: Maria M Evangelista <m.evang1@ju.edu>
Date: Sun, May 15, 2990 at 3:33 PM
Subject: O.M.G. indeed
To: Sara Daniels <s.daniels.3@nyu.edu>
You are hereby sworn to secrecy.
My friend Jayel works for one of the linguists examining the wall (basically he just fetches water and shit) and has seen what it says.
I’ve attached two photos he managed to take with his phone. The first is a picture of a picture of the wall and the second is the tentative translation.
Crazy sauce, man.
-M
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callmeJ RT @masterbuilder: Construction crew unburies #bodyofchrist in Israel?!
10:37 AM May 22nd from web
thomasdl @callmeJ Are you shitting me? Has it been confirmed? I thought the carbon dating took awhile?
12:16 PM May 22nd from TwitterBerry in reply to callmeJ
callmeJ @thomasdl No official confirmation, but did you read what the message said?
3:16 PM May 22nd from web in reply to @thomasdl
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For Christ’s sake!
Everyone has been up in arms about this whole Jesus fiasco. Every television station has a live feed to Israel. But how can we really know anything? We can carbon date the shit out of that body but whose to say its not some poor guy who was just chillin’ in Jerusalem who spent everyday of his life working hard to feed his children? And now the dude can’t get any peace in death.
I say, if they date it around the time of Jesus then its time to stop focusing on the how and take a gander at the why. Who cares how his body got there? A better question is: why did we find it now? I mean, we’ve been actively looking for how long for signs of his existence? So why now, when we’ve decided to simply accept and honor him (with a giant building of course), did we find proof that he lived and died? We believe that we rise and go to heaven, right? And yet, we remain buried and wept over. Why can’t Jesus?
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Angelica Gomez is conflicted about finding Jesus
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Luz Perkins They still haven’t completed analysis of the body
and the debate over the message continues.
03 Jun at 21:30
Christian Ramirez Aren’t we all?
03 Jun at 21:46
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Confirmation: Laborers find Jesus
By David Lapid
Published: July 4, 2990
ISRAEL — Early morning on Thursday, April 1st, a construction crew outside of Jerusalem stumbled upon what is definitely the greatest find of the century, if not ever—the body of Christ. The crew was hired to tear down several small structures, most recently used as a shelter for the homeless and a small market, to the Northeast of the Catholic cemetery by the Mount of Olives. Once demolition was completed several other crews were to join them and begin the construction of an elaborate temple-like structure dedicated to the life and works of Jesus Christ. The project was to be completed in time for the celebration of 3,000 years since his death.
This, at least, was the Vatican’s plan until its demolition crew discovered an anomaly in the Northern most structure’s foundation. Assuming that the raised portions of the earth might indicate the location of a buried building, the foreman contacted Vatican representatives to suggest that the demolition be halted and an archeologist be called in to investigate. International law would also require that the Israeli government be notified and consulted. Reports suggest that the Vatican, concerned that the find might impede the already delayed project, told the company to simply “fill in the gaps” and begin laying down the foundation for the new structure.
Eli Gottesdiener, the foreman on the project, decided instead to investigate a little. “I told my crew that my superiors decided we should continue with the foundation, but none of us liked the idea of leaving something like that hidden,” Gottesdiener told the press in a conference on Thursday, “We decided instead to carefully investigate the area. I called my friend Hasim to oversee. It was clear right away that it was a structure. It looked small, like one room. I knew I had to call [the Vatican] again.” Gottesdiener did make the call and this time Vatican representatives were forced to postpone the project because of international diplomacy.
Early on in the project’s history, they had faced several problems with the acquisition of the land. Israel, still a largely Hebrew nation, eventually agreed to sell the land to the Catholic Church for an exorbitant $23 billion. The purchase caused a uproar in the Catholic community, as it became apparent that the community at large had been unaware of such a wealth within the Church.
Hoping to avoid another incident within the Church and anxious to continue the project, representatives from the Vatican traveled to Jerusalem immediately to investigate. Hasim Lempel, Gottesdiener’s friend and head of the Archeology department at Jerusalem University, confirmed to the representatives that their construction site was now an archeological one.
The structure was, as Gottesdiener said, a small one, consisting of two rooms. When initially revealed, Lempel assumed it was a house for the outcast, given its size and distance from any other structural finds. Further excavation revealed, however, a third, sealed room wherein they discovered a nicely preserved human corpse.
“It was immediately clear that we found a body,” Lempel said. “It was actually quite shocking how well it was preserved.” The discovery of a body made it clear that they had stumbled upon a tomb. The body was immediately sent to the JU lab for analysis and preservation, while the team of archeologists now on site, continued to examine the structure.
No other bodies were discovered, but carved into the walls of the third room, Hasim and his team found writings etched around the space that the body had occupied. They appeared to be written in Ancient Aramaic: the language of Jesus. Examiners of the writing confirmed the language and revealed that it appears to say, “He stands as the right hand of the father and lives”. There is debate, however, among those that have seen the wall that this is not the complete message and that the last portion was too damaged over the years to interpret.
Analysis of the body confirmed that it would’ve been buried around the time of Jesus’ death. This information combined with the message written above the body has Christians across the globe in an uproar, as they try to reconcile the spiritual implications of the physical existence of their savior.
“As a Christian you experience the whole spectrum of emotion,” says Mary Somers in Los Angeles, California, “One minute you’re ecstatic, because here is proof that you believe in someone real. Then the next, you realize that if his body is in Jerusalem, then how can he have risen from the dead? What does this mean about the Bible? They’ve opened up a whole new Pandora’s box over there.”
And what does the Pope have to offer his community in crisis? The Vatican declined to comment.
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From: Paulo Bautista <p.bautista.7@nyu.edu>
Date: Mon, Jul 4, 2990 at 3:33 PM
Subject: Finding Jesus
To: All
I called it!
-Paulo
"Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." - Thomas Jefferson
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