Messianic sufferings

An article published over a year ago in Hebrew describes a very important find that may lead to a reassessment of messianic beliefs in Judaism, the early Jesus movement, and Jesus himself. The article by A. Yardeni and B. Elitzur, published in a Spring issue of Cathedra (issue #123, Nisan 2007, pages 155-66), is available here. Today, an article of the NYT picked up the story and describes the stone and some of the claims made about it in some detail. More on this later.