Bible Depicted
in 2,000-year-old Han Dynasty Stone Carvings
Wang Weifan is a member of the standing committee
of the China Christian Council, and a Christian theology education
professor. He recently discovered that several Eastern Han Dynasty
museum exhibits in the Jiangsu Xuzhou Han Dynasty Stone Carving
Museum include depictions of the bible and of early Christianity.
Among them are carvings determined as having been created in
AD 86 -- 550 years before Olopen, believed to be the first foreign
missionary to disseminate Christianity in China, came here in
635.
These carvings reflect early Christianity
in Iraq and the Middle East, as well as artistic characteristics
of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
