[Onelifetogive]

"What I do know is, Israeli authorities have badly managed the affair."

You don't suppose that they mismanaged it onpurpose? Physical evidence of Jesus' story....That would blow a hole in that whole "being Jewish" thing they have happening in Israel.

[missyme]

I think if they mis-managed it and wanted the whole story to go away, then it was out of fear.

This is just my opinion, but little by little I see JESUS coming into the world in a way that's provoking much talk about his personage why he came who he truly is and if he is to return, the controversy regarding "The Passion" as well as this new evidence "ossuary" is giving people of all faiths a way to examine for themselves who JESUS is and if they are willing to receive him. To me G-d is working in mysterious ways to let every human being come to Jesus before it's to late.

[safisoft]

You don't suppose that they mismanaged it onpurpose? Physical evidence of Jesus' story....That would blow a hole in that whole "being Jewish" thing they have happening in Israel.

Actually, there a references to Jesus [Y'shua] both by name and also cryptically in many Jewish manuscripts of the early 2nd Century and later. Read the Talmud. Jews do not deny the historical Jesus, so your reasoning isn't quite fair.

Some of the foremost modern authorities of the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke) are Jewish - and are at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.