By TIM MCGIRK/JERUSALEM
Posted on 01/17/2008 4:18:50 PM PST by blam
Jesus 'Tomb' Controversy Reopened
Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2008
By TIM MCGIRK/JERUSALEM
The Talpiot tomb.
Discovery / EPA
When the Discovery Channel aired a TV documentary last year raising the possibility that archeologists had found the family tomb of Jesus Christ in the hills behind Jerusalem, it caused a huge backlash among Christians. The claim, after all, challenged one of the cornerstones of Christian faith — that Jesus, after his crucifixion, rose bodily to heaven in his physical form.
The Lost Tomb of Jesus, made by Hollywood director James Cameron and Canadian investigative journalist Simcha Jacobovici, was shown only once on Discovery. Britain's Channel 4 canceled its own plans to air the documentary, which reexamines an archeological find from 1980 in which a crypt was found containing what were said to be the ossuaries of Joseph, Mary, Jesus, the son of Joseph, Mariamne (possibly Mary Magdalene, say the filmmakers) and Judah, son of Jesus. Given the highly explosive nature of its conclusion and its slapdash sleuthing, it was no surprise that the film was panned by some academics and many Christian clerics.
Still, even after the furor over the film faded, the questions it raised about the tomb unearthed in 1980 continued to make waves among archeologists and Biblical scholars. A leading New Testament expert from Princeton Theological Seminary, Prof. James Charlesworth, was intrigued enough to organize a conference in Jerusalem this week, bringing together over 50 archeologists, statisticians and experts in DNA, ceramics and ancient languages, to give evidence as to whether or not the crypt of Christ had been found. Their task was complicated by the fact that since the tomb was opened in 1980, the bones of the various ossuaries had gone missing through a mishap of Israeli bureaucracy.
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GGG Ping.
Like a bad penny.
Hmm, the Jesus I know was the son of God. Not sure who this Jesus is.
The mass media becoming more openly anti-Christian. TV, Movies, even comedians are going directly after the identity of Jesus with fiction, pseudo-documentaries, and vulgarity.
looks like it cost a TON of money to build that tomb even back then... i doubt Christ's family was that rich.
yitbos
as an amateur genealogist I am astounded by the shallowness of these people. One often runs into families with similar names.
This guy’s a Methodist minister???
He needs to go hang out with the Archbishop of Canterbury. Must be neat to make a living as a minister when you aren’t even required to believe the fundamental tenets of the faith. Easy bucks, high living....
yitbos
There’s also the fact that each of the names Jesu, Mary etc. were quite common, and therefore the finding of a family with the same sequence of names is certainly not beyond the reaches of plausibility.
Notice how the entire article is written from the perspective of the “respected archeologists” who BELIEVE that this could be the tomb of Jesus Christ? Notice how they didn’t waste any time at all discussing the reasons why detractors don’t believe this is Jesus Christ’s tomb?
the living need no tombs.
btt
According to Matthew 27: 57-60, The tomb belonged to Joseph who was rich and was Jesus’ disciple.
In any case Jesus was entombed in the tomb of a rich man as prophesided in Isaiah Chapter 53.. The name of the rich man was Nicodemus. Joseph & Mary did not have a tomb in Jeruselam....why would they since they were from Nazereth.
Isaiah 53:5 - 53:10 5But He was wounded for our transgressions; He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and with His stripes we are healed.
6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
7He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, yet He opened not his mouth; He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter; and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He openeth not His mouth.
8He was taken from prison and from judgment; and who shall declare His generation? For He was cut off out of the land of the living; for the transgression of My people was He stricken.
9And He made His grave with the wicked, and with the rich in His death, because He had done no violence, neither was any deceit in His mouth.
10Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him; He hath put Him to grief. When thou shalt make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in His hand.
Those were pretty common names at that time.
Wouldn’t Jesus’ family tomb be in the Galilee? The tomb in Jerusalem belonged to Joseph of Arimathea.
prophesided=prophesied
thx...
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