[1] According to Josephus: A tablet, known as the Gabriel's Revelation or the Jeselsohn Stone, was likely found near the Dead Sea some time around the year 2000.
Israel Knohl formerly read the inscription as a command from the angel Gabriel "to rise from the dead within three days".
He took this command to be directed at a 1st-century Jewish rebel called Simon, who was killed by the Romans in 4 BC.
Knohl believed that the finding "calls for a complete reassessment of all previous scholarship on the subject of messianism, Jewish and Christian alike".
[5]: 47–48 According to Livius.org, "Simon of Peraea may have 'put a diadem on his head', and his men must have created sufficient trouble to make the Romans send in the legions, but there are no indications that he was considered the Messiah.