{"id":93,"date":"2024-11-19T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2024\/11\/19\/megiddo-mosaic-circa-230-ad\/"},"modified":"2024-11-19T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T15:45:00","slug":"megiddo-mosaic-circa-230-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2024\/11\/19\/megiddo-mosaic-circa-230-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"Megiddo Mosaic Circa 230 AD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/earliest-inscription-declaring-jesus-is-god-discovered-in-israel-greatest-find-since-the-dead-sea-scrolls\/ar-AA1ulRkA?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=U531&amp;cvid=893698ece213439dba2a8f1f3a0973c0&amp;ei=20#\" target=\"_blank\">Earliest inscription declaring &#8216;Jesus is God&#8217; discovered in Israel<\/a>&#8220;. The 581-square-foot mosaic features the ancient Greek writing: \u201cThe god-loving Akeptous has offered the table to God Jesus Christ as a memorial.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiGHXlsB87J9SoaotwvjMMZlbvkTRLB63AtPAFWVMwB7G4QensIGhe-9ECgdGAxg9UEgCttGZK2LvH-iMOKcM3DnrL5prREqGYEnqOHm0z8xhcEAAGJq9n2nZjfgSyYSWtC_nQPpKfmeyOTrmqlU4SSrBztpoQif1QVF7JPJNBtjCmA99Njq9SQ_g\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-original-height=\"247\" data-original-width=\"612\" height=\"129\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiGHXlsB87J9SoaotwvjMMZlbvkTRLB63AtPAFWVMwB7G4QensIGhe-9ECgdGAxg9UEgCttGZK2LvH-iMOKcM3DnrL5prREqGYEnqOHm0z8xhcEAAGJq9n2nZjfgSyYSWtC_nQPpKfmeyOTrmqlU4SSrBztpoQif1QVF7JPJNBtjCmA99Njq9SQ_g\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Also found in the same mosaic:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEhfK2aSV5HBMKZiqihtuXyYvQPsQhyIQd8_5lyzI47Y5GmU83l3F8blXZ0tVVZ8U4zZu06zULg8X7UZ8dmwiVemD67dLsHBoafTlntwiKv-XDfyFT2tT-T77iI65CraAG7uQylYkdSmxhQjqmrNqjRF6lHjLci8f3IgfgTB6ipVcNw9OhLHIXNywg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-original-height=\"628\" data-original-width=\"898\" height=\"224\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEhfK2aSV5HBMKZiqihtuXyYvQPsQhyIQd8_5lyzI47Y5GmU83l3F8blXZ0tVVZ8U4zZu06zULg8X7UZ8dmwiVemD67dLsHBoafTlntwiKv-XDfyFT2tT-T77iI65CraAG7uQylYkdSmxhQjqmrNqjRF6lHjLci8f3IgfgTB6ipVcNw9OhLHIXNywg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">References<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/0014524608097822\" target=\"_blank\">The Ancient Church at Megiddo: The Discovery and an Assessment of its Significance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalarchaeology.org\/exhibits-events\/the-megiddo-mosaic\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Megiddo Mosaic<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From &#8220;Earliest inscription declaring &#8216;Jesus is God&#8217; discovered in Israel&#8220;. The 581-square-foot mosaic features the ancient Greek writing: \u201cThe god-loving Akeptous has offered the table to God Jesus Christ as a memorial.\u201d Also found in the same mosaic: References The Ancient Church at Megiddo: The Discovery and an Assessment of its Significance The Megiddo Mosaic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaelogy","category-bible","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}