Jesus – the original Harry Potter?
Old bowl that says Jesus the Magician
Aren’t the Fundees always trying to ban Harry Potter, because he was a ‘wizard’ and everybody knows wizards work for Satan? Well archaeologists just found an ancient bowl with an engraving that has the earliest reference to Jesus, saying “By Christ the Magician.” What’s next – bowl banning?
October 3rd, 2008 at 8:05 am
I hate to tell you this, but Crestos or Crestus was a fairly common name at the time, especially for a slave (it means ‘useful one’)so the chances of it referring to Christ are small. But the Fundees would be torn anyway, since this kind of bowl was used by magicians to get into an hallucinatory trance: supposedly induced by sniffing oil in the bowl. Who knows what was in that oil!
October 3rd, 2008 at 9:28 am
Interesting, I didn’t realize it was a common name! I’m sure the religious will put some suitable spin on this regardless.