The earliest Jesus in Arabic? 🪨

A Safaitic inscription from Jordan's Black Desert, which "likely contains our earliest invocation to Jesus in the Arabic language, predating the Qur'anic text by centuries."

Ahmad Al-Jallad. Audio: ACOR Jordan
#ArchaeologyRocks #Safaitic

#New on #OCIANA - a large panel of Variant 1 #Safaitic inscriptions from site MG1 is now online.

Among these is an invocation of the initial prayer type. This formula is an important lnk btw Thamudic B and Safaitic.

it reads:
*hā roṣ́aw(a) sāʿed qoṣayyata ben ʿaleyy wa salema