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===<!-- Former sub-sections Genesis through Dead Sea Scrolls copied to [[Son of God (Christianity)]] on 22 June 2016. -->Gabriel's Revelation===
{{Main|Messiah ben Joseph}}
[[Gabriel's Revelation]], also called the Vision of Gabriel<ref>[ftp://80.179.136.36/site/Israel_Knohl_on_Hazon_Gabriel.pdf ''"By Three Days, Live": Messiahs, Resurrection, and Ascent to Heavon in'' Hazon Gabriel]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Israel Knohl, Hebrew University of Jerusalem</ref> or the Jeselsohn Stone,<ref name="NatGeo">{{ cite news | url=http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/expedition-week/4290/facts | title=The First Jesus? | publisher=[[National Geographic Society|National Geographic]] | access-date=2010-08-05  | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100819141040/http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/expedition-week/4290/facts | archive-date=2010-08-19 }}</ref> is a three-foot-tall (one metre) [[stone tablet]] with 87 lines of [[Hebrew (language)|Hebrew]] text written in [[ink]], containing a collection of short [[prophecy|prophecies]] written in the first person and dated to the late 1st century BC.<ref name="BAR">{{ cite journal | last=Yardeni | first=Ada | title=A new Dead Sea Scroll in Stone?|journal=Biblical Archaeology Review|volume= 34 | issue=1 | date= Jan–Feb 2008 | url=http://www.bib-arch.org/news/dss-in-stone-news.asp }}</ref><ref name="Time">{{cite magazine | url=http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1820685,00.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080708154649/http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1820685,00.html  | archive-date=July 8, 2008 | title=Was Jesus' Resurrection a Sequel? | last=van Biema | first=David |author2=Tim McGirk | date=2008-07-07 | magazine=[[Time Magazine]] | access-date=2008-07-07}}</ref> It is a tablet described as a "[[Dead Sea scrolls|Dead Sea scroll]] in stone".<ref name="BAR" /><ref name=times>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/world/middleeast/06stone.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all|quote=The tablet, probably found near the Dead Sea in Jordan according to some scholars who have studied it, is a rare example of a stone with ink writings from that era — in essence, a Dead Sea Scroll on stone.|title=Tablet ignites debate on messiah and resurrection|author=Ethan Bronner|author-link=Ethan Bronner|date=2008-07-05|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=2008-07-07}}</ref>

The text seems to talk about a messianic figure from Ephraim who broke evil before righteousness{{clarify|date=May 2020}} by three days.<ref name="Gabriel">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GWgc2zexTIIC&pg=PA39|title=Hazon Gabriel|publisher=Society of Biblical Lit|year=2011|author=Matthias Henze|isbn=978-1-58983-541-2|access-date=2 April 2014}}</ref>{{rp|43–44}} Later the text talks about a "prince of princes" a leader of Israel who was killed by the evil king and not properly buried.<ref name="Gabriel"/>{{rp|44}} The evil king was then miraculously defeated.<ref name="Gabriel"/>{{rp|45}} The text seems to refer to Jeremiah Chapter 31.<ref name="Gabriel"/>{{rp|43}} The choice of Ephraim as the lineage of the messianic figure described in the text seems to draw on passages in Jeremiah, Zechariah and Hosea. This leader was referred to as a son of God.<ref name="Gabriel"/>{{rp|43–44, 48–49}}

The text seems to be based on a Jewish revolt recorded by Josephus dating from 4 BC.<ref name="Gabriel"/>{{rp|45–46}} Based on its dating the text seems to refer to [[Simon of Peraea]], one of the three leaders of this revolt.<ref name="Gabriel"/>{{rp|47}}