05-03-2004, 10:01 AM
Andrew Gabriel Roth Wrote:Shlama all-- Here is an email someone sent me. If you click on the link you will find info on a Messianic seal--pre Bar-Kochba--that has estrangela on it and that was found in Israel.
The article calls the TAW "Hebrew" but only the estrangela TAW is shaped like a cross, as the article also points out.
Enjoy!
Dear Mr Roth, I became aware of your book "Signs of the Cross" from a post on
the Nazarene consortium. I was wondering if you knew about the true sign which
the apostles met under, reffered to as 'the messianic seal' or the 'grafted in'
symbol? It wasn't a cross at all...Here's a link with some information:
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Blessings, Jan
Having read several articles about that symbol over the years on websites, I have yet to see anything that actually links that symbol with early believers other than a desire to read into the supposed "fish" with a supposed "cross-eye." As for the "Magen David", I haven't been able to eliminate the possibility ( <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0932050247/">http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0932050247/</a><!-- m --> ) that it isn't the star referred to in Amos 5:25-27 and Acts 7:42-43, and I stopped using it because of this.
Shlama, Craig