A recent article in The New York Times (‘Ancient Tablet Ignites Debate on Messiah and Resurrection’) has drawn attention to a stone tablet on which are inscribed 87 lines of Hebrew that ‘may speak of a messiah who will rise from the dead after three days’. The stone came to light ten years ago, but its significance only became apparent after two Israeli scholars, Ada Yardeni and Binyamin Elitzur, published an analysis of what they called ‘Gabriel’s Vision’ in the Hebrew language journal Cathedra.