Recently, word of a 2000-plus year-old stone, with ancient Hebrew writing in ink, splashed across the world's newspapers, beginning with the New York Times itself. The story is vaguely familiar -- in recent years we have been bombarded with similar new-old discoveries from the Holy Land -- yet also shockingly relevant to millions of faithful today. Writing on the mysterious tablet supposedly reveals a new facet of religious history, one that roots Christianity even more firmly and deeply into Judaism, the religion from whence it sprung. Continue reading at Powell's Books