Mysterious bones of Jesus, Joseph and Mary

The Daily Telegraph (UK) ^ | February 24, 2007 | By Tim Butcher in Jerusalem

[Al Simmons]

The three names were as common as Lisa, John and Mike are today. Give me a break. Funny how it took 25 years for some enterprising anti-Christian hoaxter to find the routine info in some library and then - VOILA! We have a mystery and a cover-up.

Had there been ANY historical significance to the find, the archaeologists would have said something 25 years ago - ya think?

[alice_in_bubbaland]

That's what I was thinking.

[LtKerst]

Charles Pellegrino...where have I heard that Name Before???

[Lexington Green]

Easter is cancelled. They found the body.

[newsie]

Just wait, next we'll hear "counterfeit bones of the Holy Family suddenly appear in the
Bahamas."

[Fitzcarraldo]

"It is just not possible that a family who came from Galilee, as the New Testament tells us of Joseph and Mary, would be buried over several generations in Jerusalem."

That's what I would say. Why are they not searching for graves in the Galilee region?

[Fitzcarraldo]

Inside they found ossuaries, or boxes of bones, marked with the names of Jesus, Joseph and Mary.

In other news, near Chicago, they found caskets, or boxes of bones, marked with the names of David, Tom and Susan.

[Ironfocus]

Wait, is this using science to try and disprove the existence of God? I thought that science could not do that?

[JerseyDvl]

Yeah right! I just finished this book last night, it is called the Templar Legacy(NYT Bestseller right now)and is pure fiction.
Looks like a copycat faux Christian tale that was fabricated just to ruffle peoples feathers.
I am awaiting the book where the remains of MoHAMed wearing a suicide belt are found next.

[George W. Bush]

No doubt, History Channel and Discovery and the usual anti-Christian mouthpieces are frothing to have the usual anti-Christ specials on the topic. Makes no difference how farfetched it is.

[George W. Bush]

Likewise, Mary was assumed body and soul into Heaven.

RC myth, not in scripture. As was her supposed Immaculate Conception.

Only Jesus ascended. Only Jesus was born without sin.

[fish hawk]

The biggest shame of this article is that it is even posted on Free Republic.

[WorkingClassFilth]

...and loss.

[presently no screen name]

See that quote?

Yes and placed at the end by design - in an attempt to 'tie it all together' for the mindless robots. Propaganda is alive and well and make no bones about it! :)

[presently no screen name]

Any marked Jimmy?

[wodinoneeye]

"The human remains inside were destroyed before any DNA testing"

So were the remains of those aliens in that video....

Too convienent.

Those names were fairly common werent they (and Jesus in Hebrew is Joshua....)

[RightWhale]

How did yesterday's thread go? Several posts were deleted by the Mods, so it may have been interesting to a few.

[SuziQ]

One inscription said "Jesus, son of Joseph", another said "Mara", a common form of Mary, and another said "Yose", a common form of Joseph.

Why, then, didn't Jesus's ossuary read, "Jesus, son of Yose"?

[mc5cents]

The Jesus I know did not leave any bones as he was resurrected from the dead so I'll refrain from buying into the hype.

That is the one I know also and in fact, there would be no Christianity if Jesus did not raise from the dead and ascend into heaven. That is the central tenet of the Christian belief. And I might add it is the reason that this sort of crap pops up every so often, it is to undermine the christian belief and strengthen secular belief. No doubt about it.

[R. Scott]

One inscription said "Jesus, son of Joseph", another said "Mara", a common form of Mary, and another said "Yose", a common form of Joseph.

Only the most common names in the area at the time. I also doubt one would say “Jesus”, the Latin form of Yeshua.