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The Jesus Tomb Discovered Part 2
On Wednesday a new article was posted on Time magazine’s website about the supposed Tomb of Jesus. About a year ago Daniel Lancaster wrote a blog post on the original hype surrounding this discovery. Well, once again, this infamous tomb is making headlines as the New Testament Bible scholar James Charlesworth has recently organized a conference in Israel with over 50 participants to re-examine all the evidence. Here are some of his comments:
Charlesworth told Time: "I have reservations, but I can't dismiss the possibility that this tomb was related to the Jesus clan." Weighing the evidence, says Charlesworth, "we can tell that this was the tomb of a Jewish family from the time of Jesus. And we know that the names on the ossuaries are expressed the correct way as 'Jesus, son of Joseph.'" But the professor has a few doubts. "The name on Jesus' ossuary was scrawled on, like graffiti. There was no ornamentation. And there should have been. After all, his followers believed he was the Son of God."
As Daniel pointed out in his original blog post the claim that this is the tomb of Yeshua is incorrect, and the more probable location is Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Nevertheless I found the Time article interesting, particularly the comments by Charlesworth who is, himself, a Methodist minister, as to what effect it would have on Christians’ faith if indeed the bones of Jesus were found.
The full Time article can be read here.
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Apparently now the scholars involved in the conference are upset that the media has spun their reaction. Media outlets made it sound like the scholars actually take the claims about the tomb seriously.
Many of the scholars signed a recent statement that concludes, "we wish to protest the misrepresentation of the conference proceedings in the media, and make it clear that the majority of scholars in attendance – including all of the archaeologists and epigraphers who presented papers relating to the tomb - either reject the identification of the Talpiot tomb as belonging to Jesus’ family or find this claim highly unlikely."
Aaron Eby | January 23, 2008 1:18 PM
Reminds me of a book called A Skeleton in God's Closet. Fiction, of course. ;)
Amanda Moore | January 23, 2008 3:33 PM