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Steven Carr · 12-21-2004, 04:44 PM

The death was announced today of Carsten Thiede ,aged 52, of a heart attack.

Toto · 12-21-2004, 04:59 PM

Obituary

52 is young for a heart attack.

Toto · 12-24-2004, 01:23 PM

Another hagiographic obit and description of his final work.

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Thiede's final major project was his most secret, and probably his most important: the location of Emmaus, the ancient village mentioned in Luke Chapter 24, where the resurrected Christ dines with two of His followers and reveals His true identity ("their eyes were opened and they recognised Him"). The site of the village has foxed biblical detectives for centuries, and the trail had run cold until Thiede's remarkable excavations in the Holy Land with his students from the Independent Academy of Theology in Basle, where he held a chair in papyrology. The full fruits of this archaeological work will be published next year in a book he completed shortly before his death.

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Thiede's personal beliefs were profoundly practical in their application. Even so, he was adamant that faith and scholarship were separate, and he rejected attempts by Christian fundamentalists to recruit him to their cause. When he was promoting the American version of one of his books, he was amused during an interview with a Christian cable channel to find that the reporter had brought cue cards with the answers he wanted read out.

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Steven Carr · 12-24-2004, 05:07 PM

We live in exciting times for Biblical research.

People have found the very ossuary James was buried in, NT manuscripts dating back to the 60s AD, perhaps in the very handwriting of Matthew, findings from the 1st Temple, findings about Solomon and David, the very clay jars which stored the water Jesus used for his miracles, and the actual site where Jesus appeared to people after the Resurrection.

In the future, people will wish they had been alive in these times to witness these discoveries, and envy us our luck in finding all these things.

I forgot that Thiede had also found the True Cross. God has truly blessed archaeologists in their works.

I think I shall pop across to Israel and find the very sand that Jesus wrote in when telling the woman found in adultery to go and sin no more.

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Toto Contributor Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Los Angeles area Posts: 40,549	Obituary 52 is young for a heart attack.

12-24-2004, 05:07 PM	#4
Steven Carr Veteran Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: England Posts: 5,629	We live in exciting times for Biblical research. People have found the very ossuary James was buried in, NT manuscripts dating back to the 60s AD, perhaps in the very handwriting of Matthew, findings from the 1st Temple, findings about Solomon and David, the very clay jars which stored the water Jesus used for his miracles, and the actual site where Jesus appeared to people after the Resurrection. In the future, people will wish they had been alive in these times to witness these discoveries, and envy us our luck in finding all these things. I forgot that Thiede had also found the True Cross. God has truly blessed archaeologists in their works. I think I shall pop across to Israel and find the very sand that Jesus wrote in when telling the woman found in adultery to go and sin no more.

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