{"text":"Despite two millennia of Christian apologetics, the fact is that belief in a dying and rising messiah simply did not exist in Judaism. In the entirety of the Hebrew Bible there is not a single passage of scripture or prophecy about the promised messiah that even hints of his ignominious death, let alone his bodily resurrection.","author":"Reza Aslan","tags":["jesus","messiah","scripture"],"id":123608,"author_id":"Reza+Aslan"}