So now as if to help us out with current discussions regarding how much extra-biblical data should inform our doctrine of scripture, there has been a discovery (or at least just now publicized) of a tablet that contains 87 lines in Hebrew that speaks of a Messiah-figure who will rise from the dead in three days:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/world/middleeast/06stone.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
Ada Yardeni calls it "a Dead Sea Scroll on stone."
