Un profesor de la Universidad de Navarra descubre el nombre hebreo 'Jacob' en el sepulcro de Santiago de Compostela
A professor at the University of Navarra discovers the Hebrew name 'Jacob' on the tomb of Santiago de Compostela
The finding of Enrique Alarcón confirms the tradition of the preaching of the apostle in Galicia and his burial in the temple.
Enrique Alarcón, professor of the School of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Navarra, has deciphered the word 'Jacob' -equivalent to 'Santiago'- written with Hebrew characters of the first century in a registration found in the tomb of Santiago de Compostela. As the expert explained during the closing ceremony of the Chair Camino de Santiago of the University of Navarra, "the name 'Jacob' is intertwined with the Greek word 'mártyr' (literally, 'witness')".
The label that is the subject of this new study was discovered in 1988 in the tomb of Athanasius, next to the tomb of St. James, by Professor Isidoro Millán. "Its symbolism is very rich and corresponds to the sepulchral inscriptions of the primitive Judeo-Christian cemetery of Jerusalem. I have found that it alludes to the Jewish feast of Shavu'ot (Pentecost), when the apostles preached for the first time to all peoples, as the New Testament narrates. Christ had charged them that only then could they leave Jerusalem and be his witnesses to 'the end of the Earth' ('Finis Terre')", explained Enrique Alarcon.
In this line, he determined that "the registration refers to Santiago as fulfiller of that mandate: witness of Christ in the Finisterre, the Roman name of the Galician coast, and it is almost contemporary, since the Hebrew characters are prior to the year 70". To which he added the following: "This dating is confirmed by the representation of ritual loaves of Shavu'ot, which ceased to be made that year after the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem by the Romans."
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finding reinforces the tradition that in the tomb of Compostela are the remains of the apostle James brought from Jerusalem, as well as his preaching years before in Finisterre. "The representation of what appears to be a language of fire also coincides with the narration of Pentecost in the New Testament, and ratifies its historicity. Because of its importance, the registration of Santiago must be placed among the main ones in all Christian archaeology", explains the researcher.
The full text of the research is published in a volume of programs of study on the Camino de Santiago coordinated by Professor Piotr Roszak of the University of Torun.
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