An early first-century earthquake in the Dead Sea
An early first-century earthquake in the Dead Sea
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DOI：
10.1080/00206814.2011.639996
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发表时间：
2012-05
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Jefferson B. Williams;M. Schwab;A. Brauer
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作者：
Jefferson B. Williams;M. Schwab;A. Brauer
本文考察了新约《马太福音》第 27 章中关于拿撒勒人耶稣受难当天耶路撒冷发生地震的报道。我们对死海西岸恩戈地岩芯的年代表进行了表格化，其中包括公元前 31 年大范围地震造成的变形沉积物和一世纪早期地震造成的变形沉积物。一世纪早期的地震事件的日期暂定为公元 31 年，精确度为 ±5 年。可能的候选者包括《马太福音》中报道的地震，一场发生在耶稣受难前后某个时间的地震，实际上是《马太福音》作者“借用”的，以及公元 26 至 36 年间的一场当地地震，该地震的能量足以使恩戈地的沉积物变形，但不足以产生仍然存在的圣经外的历史记录。如果最后一种可能性为真，那就意味着马太福音中关于地震的报道是一种寓言。
This article examines a report in the 27th chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament that an earthquake was felt in Jerusalem on the day of the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth. We have tabulated a varved chronology from a core from Ein Gedi on the western shore of the Dead Sea between deformed sediments due to a widespread earthquake in 31 BC and deformed sediments due to an early first-century earthquake. The early first-century seismic event has been tentatively assigned a date of 31 AD with an accuracy of ±5 years. Plausible candidates include the earthquake reported in the Gospel of Matthew, an earthquake that occurred sometime before or after the crucifixion and was in effect ‘borrowed’ by the author of the Gospel of Matthew, and a local earthquake between 26 and 36 AD that was sufficiently energetic to deform the sediments at Ein Gedi but not energetic enough to produce a still extant and extra-biblical historical record. If the last possibility is true, this would mean that the report of an earthquake in the Gospel of Matthew is a type of allegory.