Posted on 02/23/2007 5:50:36 AM PST by Rb ver. 2.0
The cave in which Jesus Christ was buried has been found in Jerusalem, claim the makers of a new documentary film.
If it proves true, the discovery, which will be revealed at a press conference in New York Monday, could shake up the Christian world as one of the most significant archeological finds in history.
The coffins which, according to the filmmakers held the remains of Jesus of Nazareth, his mother Mary and Mary Magdalene will be displayed for the first time on Monday in New York.
Jointly produced by Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici and Oscar winning director James Cameron, the film tells the exciting and tortuous story of the archaeological discovery.
The story starts in 1980 in Jerusalem’s Talpiyot neighborhood, with the discovery of a 2,000 year old cave containing ten coffins. Six of the ten coffins were carved with inscriptions reading the names: Jesua son of Joseph, Mary, Mary, Matthew, Jofa (Joseph, identified as Jesus’ brother), Judah son of Jesua (Jesus’ son - the filmmakers claim).
Decades of research
The findings in the cave, including the decipherment of the inscriptions, were first revealed about ten years ago by internationally renowned Israeli archeologist Professor Amos Kloner.
Since their discovery, the caskets were kept in the Israeli Antiquities Authority archive in Beit Shemesh, but now two have been sent to New York for their first public exhibition.
Although the cave was discovered nearly 30 years ago and the casket inscriptions decoded ten years ago, the filmmakers are the first to establish that the cave was in fact the burial site of Jesus and his family.
The film, which documents the stages of the discovery, is the result of three years labor and research. It will be broadcast on the international Discovery Channel, Britain's Channel 4, Canada’s Vision and Israel’s Channel 8, which also took part in the film's production.
According to the filmmakers, the film’s claim is based on close work with world-famous scientists, archeologists, statisticians, DNA specialists and antiquities experts.
"Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen!"
the ossuary was an authentic one of the period. i believe the inscription was thought to have been added in modern days with mistakes in the linguistics which gave it away. also the patina over the inscription didn't match the original one of the ossuary itself. something like that.
Maybe Jimmy Hoffa is there.
"Inside the cave they also found the remains of: King Arthur, Jimmy Hoffa, Judge Crater, Amelia Earhart, Five Japanese Soldiers who still didn't know WWII ended, and ... every 'Lost Sock' that ever disappeared in the wash! (that alone was HUGH!)"
My daughters Razr phone is missing, I wonder if it is in there? And if so I wonder what Fed Ex would charge to overnight from Israel?
People who make claims like the ones in the Da Vinci Code based on his painting of the Last Supper make me laugh. First of all, everyone in that portrait...is Italian. That's because Da Vinci wasn't really there. What if he had put a monkey on a unicycle in it?
Many "respected scientists" were fooled by Uri Geller, for example -- it took a skeptic and professional illusionist to unmask him.
I remember reading an article in Popular Science by a fellow (Walter somebody?) who used an iron oxide powder and wrapped fabric around a 3-dimensional model. What he got was pretty close. You'll never have an exact duplication at this far a remove (fabric, chemicals, etc. are so different now).
What it boils down to is the burden of proof. The burden lies on the advocates to support their somewhat improbable conclusions -- not on the skeptics to prove that the shroud is a forgery. So many people look at it the other way around -- and award a "tie" to the advocates of the shroud.
I find it interesting, but it has no effect on my faith in Christ either way. The Sacrifice and Resurrection are what's really remarkable here.
One of the "caskets" would be empty......of that, I'm sure!
If this were true wouldnt it at least be in Time and Newsweek?
Could be big, if true.
Medieval people weren't as 'backward' as everyone seems to think. The idea of the Dark Ages was a Victorian construct -- they did so love to put everything in pigeonholes.
I could see a valuable length of fabric brought back by a Crusader venerated as a burial shroud -- and then an enterprising artist decides to improve on nature, so to speak.
Read a short story by Rudyard Kipling, "Dayspring Mishandled", for a short course in medieval forgery.
But there is a resurrection, therefore the grave hath no victory, and the sting of death is swallowed up in Christ.
Today they'd call him Joshua Josephson, though Greta would turn him into "J.J." before the week was out. (And if she didn't Rita Cosby would.)
I'm sure there's a vial of Jesus' DNA at Jerusalem lab.
I thought Jesus was wrapped in a shroud and laid on a shelf in a cave. When the cave was opened, all that was left, was the shroud. Not a coffin.
HAHAHHAHAHAH!! What a FARCE!!
You ARE kidding, right?
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