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The Lost Tomb of Jesus: The Review (w/Ted Koppel)
3/4/07 | Reaganesque

Posted on 03/04/2007 8:37:23 PM PST by Reaganesque

The Lost Tomb of Jesus on the Discovery Channel was followed up by a panel discussion moderated by Ted Koppel. Koppel and two professors who are not affiliated with the documentary totally eviscerated the director of the film and one of his consultants. Koppel seemed particularly offended by the film maker's claims of being a journalist. If you get the chance to see this review of the documentary, watch it. It is very funny.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: discovery; epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; heresy; jamescameron; jamesossuary; jerusalem; jesus; jesustomb; letshavejerusalem; simchajacobovici; talpiot; tomb
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The documentary itself was total junk. It was all supposition and innuendo with a very clear bias. It is a fine example of today's junk science. Anyone else watch this? What's your take?
1 posted on 03/04/2007 8:37:26 PM PST by Reaganesque
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To: Reaganesque

Wasn't it the body that was missing, not the tomb?


2 posted on 03/04/2007 8:40:00 PM PST by Bertha Fanation
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To: Reaganesque
Dammit you mean they found his bones?

I went to church today for nothin!!!S\

3 posted on 03/04/2007 8:42:49 PM PST by right way right
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To: Bertha Fanation

Not according to the filmaker. And it is quite clear, to me anyway, that his intent here was to be controversial, not accurate.


4 posted on 03/04/2007 8:43:06 PM PST by Reaganesque
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To: Reaganesque
Even Koppel wasn't gonna bite on this worm. And he didn't seem to like that insufferable little prick of a 'journalist', did he? He may well take a tack to port, philosophically-speaking, but he ain't a stupid man.


5 posted on 03/04/2007 8:45:29 PM PST by Viking2002 (Islam is to Western Civilization what ticks are to a dog.)
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To: Reaganesque

I made a point not to watch it.


6 posted on 03/04/2007 8:45:50 PM PST by rdl6989
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I was curious to see just how scientifically bogus this documentary was. And it did not disappoint in it's junk science quotient. It was like watching an episode of The X-Files.


7 posted on 03/04/2007 8:48:05 PM PST by Reaganesque
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8 posted on 03/04/2007 8:50:27 PM PST by bnelson44 (Proud parent of a tanker! If you are military please sign at: appealforcourage.org)
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I`m suprised the AlGore monster wasn`t involved in this. It probably would have won him another Oscar. No, excuse me, it would HAVE won him another Oscar being that it`s not only junk science, but also takes another swipe at Christianity.

"YOUR UNCONTROLLABLE BOWEL MOVEMENTS ARE DESTROYING THE ENVIORNMENT MISTER!"

9 posted on 03/04/2007 9:03:14 PM PST by Screamname (Looking for a good book to read? Read "Night song of the last Tram" by Robert Douglas.)
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10 posted on 03/04/2007 9:04:47 PM PST by DocRock (What would Solomon Do?)
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To: Viking2002
Isn't the "little prick of a 'journalist' a Muslim???... isn't that what his hat symbolized??
11 posted on 03/04/2007 9:05:27 PM PST by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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To: Robe

Oh, well that explains it.


12 posted on 03/04/2007 9:12:40 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: Reaganesque

I don't have tons of patience for some of the junk science on the Christian side, but I didn't even have to watch this particular "documentary" to tell it was crap. You can smell it about 30 yards away.


13 posted on 03/04/2007 9:20:45 PM PST by Luke Skyfreeper
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To: Reaganesque

I watched a couple minutes where they showed a block of concrete with an upside-down V that also had a "tick" mark in it which looked to me just like a half-dozen other tick marks int he same line, which looked like they were made by some machine picking up the block.

The "journalists" suggested this "symbol" looked "just like" symbols marking the tomb where their other stuff was found.

That's all I saw so I can't tell you more about it. Seemed pretty thin to me.


14 posted on 03/04/2007 9:22:25 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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What were they basing that it was Jesus on? That the tomb had the name Jesus with Mary and Joseph names next to it? Well if that`s all the evidence they need, then I guess every Jesus in L.A. with parents Jose and Maria means that`s the real Jesus to them too, and if you include every guy named Jesus in the world who has parents named Jose and Maria, then I guess there must be millions of Messiahs running around right now! Quick, call James Cameron!


15 posted on 03/04/2007 9:22:58 PM PST by Screamname (Looking for a good book to read? Read "Night song of the last Tram" by Robert Douglas.)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

The rest of the evidence was just as "compelling".


16 posted on 03/04/2007 9:23:27 PM PST by Reaganesque
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To: Reaganesque
HollyWeird is dominated by the satanic spirit of the AntiChrist. Btw the terminology of 'AntiChrist' can mean either Against Christ or a False Christ.

So either way you take it this crap is mainly intended to do the usual distort, confuse, smear, discredit and dilute Christian faith by saying that its founder a)had an illegal affair and wife & child and b) he is dead.

Of course if any of these claims were true than it would have been thus documented in the bible and as for the alleged body of Christ we all read how he was certifiably risen and convincingly appeared to many up to 500 people at the same time and was touched & handled by them.

17 posted on 03/04/2007 9:24:24 PM PST by prophetic
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To: CharlesWayneCT
I watched a couple minutes where they showed a block of concrete with an upside-down V that also had a "tick" mark in it which looked to me just like a half-dozen other tick marks int he same line, which looked like they were made by some machine picking up the block.

The mark over the tomb looked like the Eye of Providence. Look at the back of the dollar. Does Hiram Abiff have an alibi? (:>)

18 posted on 03/04/2007 9:29:44 PM PST by Stentor
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To: Screamname

The claim that this is Jesus' lost tomb is based almost entirely on the names on the boxes and the statistical probability that all of these names in the same tomb add up to their conclusion. They also did a DNA test on the box marked Jesus (Jeshua, actually which is also interpreted as Joshua, a fact the film over looked) and compared it to the box they believe to be Mary Magdalene's. The tests indicated that the two did not have the same mother. The film-maker then makes the logical leap that the results indicate that these two people were married, since only family would be buried in a family tomb. Really, really weak. No mention of the Jewish custom of a brother marrying his deceased brother's wife to raise children to his dead brother's memory.


19 posted on 03/04/2007 9:30:01 PM PST by Reaganesque
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To: Stentor

It looked like the Masonic symbol.


20 posted on 03/04/2007 9:36:03 PM PST by varina davis
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