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.
my thoughts, too. Just another kook drunk on "da Vinci Code" trying to look relevant.
The Holy Grail isn't in Spain, It's at Castle Arrrrrrrrrrrrgh
Oscar winning director James Cameron of Titanic fame. Yuck what a over-long boring movie.
It's been pretty well established that the Shroud of Turin is a medieval fraud.
Thanks! I knew it was something off the wall. Wasn't the "brother of Yeshua" the part that was added?
The cave in which Jesus Christ was buried has been found in Jerusalem ... the discovery of a 2,000 year old cave containing ten coffins.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!)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..
Also found was an odd inscription on the wall experts are still attempting to decipher it's real meaning. It read:
'Kilroy Was Here'.
This could be very series!
There are people who seem to have an awful lot invested emotionally in the Shroud of Turin.
The bishop of the time declared it a fraud, and knew the artist. A modern investigator has demonstrated how it was done. The Shroud-ologists go through all sorts of gymnastics to explain those facts away (the bishop was in competition for fees with the monastery that had the Shroud, etc. etc.) but this far removed in time that's the best we're going to get. The contemporaneous evidence is what clinches it for me.
More here:
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/33587.html
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But the senior Israeli archaeologist who thoroughly researched the tombs after their discovery, and at the time deciphered the inscriptions, cast serious doubt on it.
"It's a beautiful story but without any proof whatsoever," Professor Amos Kloner, who had published the findings of his research in the Israeli periodical Atiqot in 1996, told Deutsche
Presse-Agentur dpa Friday.
"The names that are found on the tombs are names that are similar to the names of the family of Jesus," he conceded.
"But those were the most common names found among Jews in the first centuries BCE and CE," he added.
Kloner dismissed the combination of names found in the cave as a "coincidence."
The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), which is keeping the caskets in its archive in the town of Beit Shemesh near Jerusalem, declined to comment on the documentary, saying it had not researchedthe caskets and that its duty was only to safeguard them.
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It was hard enough trying to find where my grandparents lived in Chicago in 1917 - it's now an on-ramp to the the Kennedy Expressway. People will make of this 'discovery' whatever they want, and it may play a role in anti-Christian propaganda.
Sounds like the same validation for Global Warming.
But the Da Vinci code is based on the theory that Jesus and Mary Magdalene married and had children. If these are genuine (which I think is HIGHLY questionable, to say the least), the fact that Mary Magdalene was buried in the same place, along with Jesus' son, would tend to support that theory.
But it is going to take an AWFUL lot to convince me these are genuine. And IF (big if)they are genuine, it would not affect my faith in the least - much of the Bible is allegorical in nature, and possibly the Acension is as well. But there is overwhelming evidence Jesus died on Good Friday, and to have had children he would have had to rise from the dead, since SURELY one of the gospels would have mentioned his marriage if it happened before Good Friday.
Why 'beautiful'? Another nail for them to use on Christianity?
>I thought that there was no family tomb, so Joseph of Arimathea offered his family tomb for Jesus' burial
That tomb could have been used pre-Resurrection, and this new one post-resurrection (i.e. years later), it does not necessarily rule it out. But these folks have a whole lot of proving to do before I accept their theory.
Closely related to the '800 scholars' of China.
A certain Reynald of Kerak sent an expedition during the time of the Latin States in Palestine to capture the body of Mohamed. The expedition took ships overland from the Med to the Red Sea and reassembled them. They got distracted by the riches of merchantmen, and that gave time for the Arabs to gather a counter force. Reynald escaped, but most were captured.
The "blasphemy" so offended Saladin that he stopped fighting his Muslim neighbors, and focused his efforts on destroying the Latin Kingdoms.
Later, when Jerusalem fell, Reynald was murdered by Saladin after the surrender, despite the terms of the surrender. Of course, per the Muslims, that wasn't a problem with Saladin, it was fitting and just.
I noticed that as well.
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