JESUS: TALES FROM THE CRYPT
\nBy Tim McGirk\/Jerusalem, Time
\nFebruary 23, 2007<\/p>\n
http:\/\/time-blog.com\/middle_east\/<\/p>\n
Brace yourself. James Cameron, the man who brought you ‘The Titanic’ is back with another blockbuster. This time, the ship he’s sinking is Christianity.<\/p>\n
In a new documentary, Producer Cameron and his director, Simcha Jacobovici, make the starting claim that Jesus wasn’t resurrected — the cornerstone of Christian faith — and that his burial cave was discovered near Jerusalem.
\nAnd, get this, Jesus sired a son with Mary Magdelene.<\/p>\n
No, it’s not a re-make of “The Da Vinci Codes’. It’s supposed to be true.<\/p>\n
Let’s go back 27 years, when Israeli construction workers were gouging out the foundations for a new building in the industrial park in the Talpiyot, a Jerusalem suburb of Jerusalem. The earth gave way, revealing a 2,000 year old cave with 10 stone caskets. Archologists were summoned, and the stone caskets carted away for examination. It took 20 years for experts to decipher the names on the ten tombs. They were: Jesua, son of Joseph, Mary,
\nMary, Mathew, Jofa and Judah, son of Jesua.
\n* * END OF EXCERPT (entire article below)* *<\/p>\n
Katia writes:<\/p>\n
I don’t buy it.\u00c2\u00a0 Just like the James ossurary inscriptions were said to be forgeries, I bet this one is forged too.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s just too convenient to find such a tomb 2000 years later during this climate of Christianity-is-a-fraud.\u00c2\u00a0 So does this at least prove Jesus was not a myth, but came in the flesh and so did Mary and the others listed in the crypt?\u00c2\u00a0 Probably they won’t even admit that.\u00c2\u00a0 He is somehow both a myth AND a fraud, to the Jesus debunkers.\u00c2\u00a0 As for me, I think he was an historical character, lived and died.\u00c2\u00a0 AND resurrected.\u00c2\u00a0 So there.\u00c2\u00a0 — Katia<\/p>\n
JESUS: TALES FROM THE CRYPT
\nBy Tim McGirk\/Jerusalem
\nTime
\nFebruary 23, 2007<\/p>\n
http:\/\/time-blog.com\/middle_east\/<\/p>\n
Brace yourself. James Cameron, the man who brought you ‘The Titanic’ is back
\nwith another blockbuster. This time, the ship he’s sinking is Christianity.<\/p>\n
In a new documentary, Producer Cameron and his director, Simcha Jacobovici,
\nmake the starting claim that Jesus wasn’t resurrected — the cornerstone of
\nChristian faith — and that his burial cave was discovered near Jerusalem.
\nAnd, get this, Jesus sired a son with Mary Magdelene.<\/p>\n
No, it’s not a re-make of “The Da Vinci Codes’. It’s supposed to be true.<\/p>\n
Let’s go back 27 years, when Israeli construction workers were gouging out
\nthe foundations for a new building in the industrial park in the Talpiyot, a
\nJerusalem suburb of Jerusalem. The earth gave way, revealing a 2,000 year
\nold cave with 10 stone caskets. Archologists were summoned, and the stone
\ncaskets carted away for examination. It took 20 years for experts to
\ndecipher the names on the ten tombs. They were: Jesua, son of Joseph, Mary,
\nMary, Mathew, Jofa and Judah, son of Jesua.<\/p>\n
Israel’s prominent archeologist Professor Amos Kloner didn’t associate the
\ncrypt with the New Testament Jesus. His father, after all, was a humble
\ncarpenter who couldn’t afford a luxury crypt for his family. And all were
\ncommon Jewish names.<\/p>\n
There was also this little inconvenience that a few miles away, in the old
\ncity of Jerusalem, Christians for centuries had been worshipping the empty
\ntomb of Christ at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Christ’s resurrection,
\nafter all, is the main foundation of the faith, proof that a boy born to a
\ncarpenter’s wife in a manger is the Son of God.<\/p>\n
But film-makers Cameron and Jacobovici claim to have amassed evidence
\nthrough DNA tests, archeological evidence and Biblical studies, that the 10
\ncoffins belong to Jesus and his family.<\/p>\n
Ever the showman, (Why does this remind me of the impresario in another
\nmovie,”King Kong”, whose hubris blinds him to the dangers of an angry and
\nvery large ape?) Cameron is holding a New York press conference on Monday at
\nwhich he will reveal three coffins, supposedly those of Jesus of Nazareth,
\nhis mother Mary and Mary Magdalene. News about the film, which will be shown
\nsoon on Discovery Channel, Britain’s Channel 4, Canada’s Vision, and
\nIsrael’s Channel 8, has been a hot blog topic in the Middle East (check out
\na personal favorite: Israelity Bites http:\/\/israelitybites.blogspot.com\/
\nHere in the Holy Land, Biblical Archeology is a dangerous profession. This
\n90-minute documentary is bound to outrage Christians and stir up a titanic
\ndebate between believers and skeptics. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n
————<\/p>\n
JESUS\u00c2\u00b9 BURIAL SITE FOUND – FILM CLAIMS
\nBy Ariella Ringel-Hoffman
\nynetnews.com
\nFebruary 23, 2007<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-3368731,00.html<\/p>\n
The cave in which Jesus Christ was buried has been found in Jerusalem, claim
\nthe makers of a new documentary film.<\/p>\n
If it proves true, the discovery, which will be revealed at a press
\nconference in New York Monday, could shake up the Christian world as one of
\nthe most significant archeological finds in history.<\/p>\n
The coffins which, according to the filmmakers held the remains of Jesus of
\nNazareth, his mother Mary and Mary Magdalene will be displayed for the first
\ntime on Monday in New York.<\/p>\n
Jointly produced by Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker Simcha
\nJacobovici and Oscar winning director James Cameron, the film tells the
\nexciting and tortuous story of the archeological discovery.<\/p>\n
The story starts in 1980 in Jerusalem\u00c2\u00b9s Talpiyot neighborhood, with the
\ndiscovery of a 2,000 year old cave containing ten coffins. Six of the ten
\ncoffins were carved with inscriptions reading the names: Jesua son of
\nJoseph, Mary, Mary, Matthew, Jofa (Joseph, identified as Jesus\u00c2\u00b9 brother),
\nJudah son of Jesua (Jesus\u00c2\u00b9 son – the filmmakers claim).<\/p>\n
Decades of research<\/p>\n
The findings in the cave, including the decipherment of the inscriptions,
\nwere first revealed about ten years ago by internationally renowned Israeli
\narcheologist Professor Amos Kloner.<\/p>\n
Since their discovery, the caskets were kept in the Israeli Antiquities
\nAuthority archive in Beit Shemesh, but now two have been sent to New York
\nfor their first public exhibition.<\/p>\n
Although the cave was discovered nearly 30 years ago and the casket
\ninscriptions decoded ten years ago, the filmmakers are the first to
\nestablish that the cave was in fact the burial site of Jesus and his family.<\/p>\n
The film, which documents the stages of the discovery, is the result of
\nthree years labor and research. It will be broadcast on the international
\nDiscovery Channel, Britain’s Channel 4, Canada\u00c2\u00b9s Vision and Israel\u00c2\u00b9s Channel
\n8, which also took part in the film’s production.<\/p>\n
According to the filmmakers, the film\u00c2\u00b9s claim is based on close work with
\nworld-famous scientists, archeologists, statisticians, DNA specialists and
\nantiquities experts.<\/p>\n
* * * * * * *<\/p>\n
CHRIST’S TOMB FOUND?
\nBy Stuart Laidlaw
\nThe Toronto Star
\nFebruary 25, 2007<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/Unassigned\/article\/185534<\/p>\n
A Canadian documentary filmmaker will reveal at a news conference Monday
\nthat he has strong evidence a group of burial boxes unearthed in Jerusalem
\nbelonged to Jesus Christ http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jesus\u00c2\u00a0and his
\nfamily.<\/p>\n
The discovery could have profound implications 2,000 years after the boxes
\nwere placed in the ground, shaking the foundations of modern faith and
\nraising Da-Vinci-Code-like speculation that Jesus had a child with Mary
\nMagdalene.<\/p>\n
“It’s mind boggling. It’s an altered reality,” Toronto documentary director
\nSimcha Jacobovici http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Simcha_Jacobovici\u00c2\u00a0told the
\nStar last week.<\/p>\n
The location of the press conference is being kept secret until Monday to
\nprevent a stampede of people wanting to see the artefacts on display.<\/p>\n
The documentary is called The Lost Tomb of Jesus and its claim that that the
\nburial box of Jesus has been found along with his DNA, are sure to be met
\nwith scepticism, if not outright hostility, by church leaders.<\/p>\n
In an interview, Jacobovici said that while nothing in archaeology can ever
\nbe proven beyond doubt, there is “compelling evidence” that the tomb he
\nexplores under a Jerusalem apartment building is that of the holy family.<\/p>\n
“You have to kind of pinch yourself,” said Jacobovici, known as the Naked
\nArchaeologist after a Vision TV series. “Are we really saying what we are
\nsaying?”<\/p>\n
James Tabor, chair of religious studies at the University of North Carolina
\nand an expert featured extensively in The Lost Tomb, said that as an
\nacademic he has seen enough to convince him of the evidence, but admits to
\nsome trepidation about claiming that the tomb of Jesus has been found.<\/p>\n
“There’s a part of you that says, it’s too amazing. How can this be true?”
\nTabor told the Star. “It’s an archaeological dream.”<\/p>\n
Critics are already dismissing the documentary’s claims.<\/p>\n
“It’s a beautiful story but without any proof whatsoever,” Bar Ilan
\nUniversity professor Amos Kloner, who researched the tomb for the Israeli
\nperiodical Atiqot in 1996, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur on Friday.<\/p>\n
Jacobovici says there is nothing in the documentary that should offend
\ndevout Christians, since he does not argue that Jesus did not ascend to
\nheaven, at least spiritually, as told in the Bible.<\/p>\n
“People who believe in a physical ascension — that he took his body to
\nheaven — those people obviously will say, wait a minute,” he said, adding
\nhe hopes the film sparks more scientific study of the tomb and the ossuaries
\nfound inside.<\/p>\n
The tomb was unearthed in 1980 during construction of an apartment building
\nand was first connected to the Jesus family in a 1996 BBC documentary.
\nJacobovici’s documentary uses scientific methods, including DNA testing,
\nstatistical analysis and forensic examination, not available to the BBC 11
\nyears ago.<\/p>\n
It airs on Discovery in the U.S. and on Channel 4 in the U.K. on Sunday, and
\nMarch 6 in Canada on Vision TV. A book, The Jesus Family Tomb by Jacobovici
\nand Charles Pellegrino, comes out this week
\n<http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0061192023\/newheavenneweart>.
\nTitanic director James Cameron <http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_cameron>,
\nexecutive producer of the documentary, wrote the introduction.<\/p>\n
The film and book follow years of growing interest in the private life of
\nJesus, fuelled by the 2003 Dan Brown novel The Da Vinci Code, made into a
\nmovie last year, in which Jesus is said to have married Mary Magdalene and
\nhad a daughter, sparking a centuries-long cover-up.<\/p>\n
The novel, denounced by church groups around the world, spawned a
\nmini-industry speculating about the historical Jesus, his relationship to
\nMary and his family life. Church leaders, including the Pope, dismissed the
\nbook and movie as pure fiction.<\/p>\n
Tabor, whose book The Jesus Dynasty last year raised many of the same
\nquestions as the documentary, says the film cannot be as easily dismissed as
\nBrown’s novel, even though it too suggests that Jesus had a child with Mary
\nMagdalene.<\/p>\n
“This is archaeology. We got the casket. We’ve got the bones,” he told the
\nStar. “I think we can say, in all probability, Jesus had this son, Jude,
\npresumably through Mary Magdalene.”<\/p>\n
DNA tests conducted for the documentary at Lakehead University on two
\nossuaries — one inscribed Jesus son of Joseph and the other Mariamne, or
\nMary — confirm that the two were not related by blood, so were probably
\nmarried.<\/p>\n
“Perhaps Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married as the DNA results from the
\nTalpiot ossuaries suggest and perhaps their union was kept secret to protect
\na potential dynasty — a secret hidden through the ages,” narrator Ron White
\nsays over re-enacted scenes of a happy Jesus and Mary home life.<\/p>\n
“A secret we just may be able to uncover in the holy family tomb.”<\/p>\n
The tomb was found in the Talpiot neighbourhood of Jerusalem during the
\nconstruction of an apartment building in 1980. Archaeologists were given
\nthree days to document the tomb and excavate it for treasures.<\/p>\n
Inside, they found 10 ossuaries and three skulls. Six ossuaries had names
\netched into them — Jesus son of Joseph, Judah son of Jesus, Maria,
\nMariamne, Joseph and Matthew — all Jesus family names.<\/p>\n
At the time, however, the inscriptions raised few alarms. These were, after
\nall, very common names at the time of Jesus. Besides, with all the
\nconstruction around Jerusalem at the time, it was a boom time for uncovering
\ntombs, and the Israeli Antiquities Authority could barely keep up.<\/p>\n
Any connection to the holy family was not made until 15 years later, when a
\nBBC crew researching and Easter special stumbled across the collection in an
\nIAA storage room. They immediately began work on a new program, based on the
\ntomb, which aired a year later.<\/p>\n
That show, aired as part of the BBC’s acclaimed Heart of the Matter
\nnewsmagazine, was dismissed by Biblical scholars as “laughable” for
\nsuggesting, as Jacobovici does, that the tomb was that of Jesus Christ’s
\nfamily.<\/p>\n
Today, Kloner and others still argue that the names were so common that
\nthere is no significance to them being found in a tomb.<\/p>\n
“The names that are found on the tombs are names that are similar to the
\nnames of the family of Jesus,” he conceded. “But those were the most common
\nnames found among Jews in the first centuries.”<\/p>\n
In The Lost Tomb, however, University of Toronto statistician Andre
\nFeuerverger calculates that while the names are common, the chances of them
\nbeing found together are 600 to one.<\/p>\n
His conclusion is based on a few assumptions: that the Maria on one of the
\nossuaries is the mother of the Jesus found on another box, that Mariamne is
\nhis wife and that Joseph (inscribed as the nickname Jose) is his brother.<\/p>\n
As the documentary tells us, there is reason to make these assumptions.<\/p>\n
Maria is the Latin form of Mary, and is how Jesus’s mother was known after
\nhis death as more Romans became followers. Mariamne is the Greek form of
\nMary. Mary Magdelene is believed to have spoken and preached in Greek. Jose
\nwas the nickname used for Jesus’ little brother.<\/p>\n
As well, the Talpiot Tomb is the only place where ossuaries have ever been
\nfound with the names Mariamne and Jose, even though the root forms of the
\nname were very popular and thousands of ossuaries have been unearthed.<\/p>\n
This is not, however, the first time a Jesus ossuary has been found. The
\nfirst was in 1926.<\/p>\n
Another famous ossuary, inscribed James son of Joseph brother of Jesus, is
\nalso featured in the documentary.<\/p>\n
Forensic testing of the patina on the Jesus ossuary and that of James
\nconclude that they came from the same tomb — seemingly proving the
\nauthenticity of the often-questioned James ossuary and further increasing
\nthe likelihood that it is the tomb of the holy family.<\/p>\n
Feuerverger calculates for Jacobovici that if James is added to the
\nequation, there is a 30,000 to one chance that the Talpiot Tomb belonged to
\nthe holiest families in Christendom.<\/p>\n
The documentary speculates that the James ossuary was stolen shortly after
\nthe tomb was found. The archaeologists examining the tomb 26 years ago found
\n10 ossuaries, but only nine are in storage at the IAA. In The Lost Tomb, it
\nis alleged that the James ossuary is that missing box.<\/p>\n
But there is one wrinkle that is not examined in the documentary, one that
\nemerged in a Jerusalem courtroom just weeks ago at the fraud trial of James
\nossuary owner Oded Golan, charged with forging part of the inscription on
\nthe box.<\/p>\n
Former FBI agent Gerald Richard testified that a photo of the James ossuary,
\nshowing it in Golan’s home, was taken in the 1970s, based on tests done by
\nthe FBI photo lab.<\/p>\n
Jacobovici concedes in an interview that if the ossuary was photographed in
\nthe 1970s, it could not then have been found in a tomb in 1980. But while he
\ndoes not address the conundrum in the documentary, he said in an interview
\nthat it’s possible Golan’s photo was printed on old paper in the 1980s.<\/p>\n
————<\/p>\n
HAS THE DNA OF JESUS CHRIST BEEN FOUND?
\nBy Michael Posner
\nThe Globe and Mail
\nFebruary 24, 2007<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20070224.wlosttomb0224\/BN
\nStory\/Front\/home<\/p>\n
Has the DNA of Jesus Christ been found?<\/p>\n
That tantalizing question underpins The Lost Tomb of Jesus — a new book and
\nfeature documentary film with potentially profound implications for
\nChristianity.<\/p>\n
The two provocative works suggest that ossuaries once containing the bones
\nof Jesus of Nazareth and his family are now stored in a warehouse belonging
\nto the Israel Antiquity Authority in Bet Shemesh, outside Jerusalem.<\/p>\n
Although the evidence contained in the film and book is hardly definitive,
\nit is compelling. Inscribed in Hebrew, Latin or Greek, six boxes — taken
\nfrom a 2,000-year-old cave discovered in March, 1980, during excavation for
\na housing project in Talpiyot, south of Jerusalem — bear the names: Yeshua
\n(Jesus) bar Yosef (son of Joseph); Maria (the Latin version of Miriam, which
\nis the English Mary); Matia (the Hebrew equivalent of Matthew, a name common
\nin the lineage of both Mary and Joseph); Yose; (the Gospel of Mark refers to
\nYose as a brother of Jesus); Yehuda bar Yeshua, or Judah, son of Jesus; and
\nin Greek, Mariamne e mara — meaning ‘Mariamne, known as the master.’
\nAccording to Harvard professor Francois Bovon, interviewed in the film,
\nMariamne was Mary Magdalene’s real name.<\/p>\n
The bones once contained in the boxes have long since been reburied,
\naccording to Jewish custom — in unmarked graves in Israel.<\/p>\n
If the evidence adduced is correct, the bone boxes — and microscopic
\nremains of DNA still contained inside — would constitute the first
\narchaeological evidence of the existence of the Christian saviour and his
\nfamily.<\/p>\n
Tests on mitochondrial DNA obtained from the Jesus and Mariamne boxes and
\nconducted at Lakehead University’s Paleo-DNA laboratory, in Thunder Bay,
\nOnt., show conclusively that the two individuals were not maternally
\nrelated. According to Dr. Carney Matheson, the lab’s head, this likely means
\nthey were related by marriage.<\/p>\n
Thus, the book and film raise seminal questions, not only about the early
\nmovement of Judeo-Christians that Jesus led, but about whether, as some
\nscholars believe, he might have been married to Mary Magdalene and fathered
\na family.<\/p>\n
Nothing in the film or book challenges traditional Christian dogma regarding
\nthe resurrection. But it could pose a problem for those that believe Jesus’
\nascension, 40 days after the resurrection, was both physical and spiritual.
\nAnd, if further DNA testing were to link Jesus and Yose with Mary, it would
\ncall into question the entire doctrine of the Virgin Birth.<\/p>\n
The $4-million documentary is the work two Canadians — Emmy-award winner
\ndirector Simcha Jacobovici and his executive producer, Oscar-award winning
\nfilmmaker James Cameron. It will air on Canada’s Vision TV on March 6th and
\nlater next month on Discovery US and Britain’s Channel 4. A companion book,
\nThe Jesus Family Tomb, by Mr. Jacobovici and Dr. Charles Pellegrino, has
\njust been released (Harper Collins).<\/p>\n
Mr. Jacobovici and Mr. Cameron are scheduled to hold a press conference
\nMonday morning at the New York Public Library, with the Jesus and Mary
\nMagdelene ossuaries, flown in from Israel, on display.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, security agents have been hired to stand guard outside the
\nTalpiyot apartments beneath which the tomb lies, covered by a large cement
\nplate.<\/p>\n
“I don’t think this changes the fundamentals of faith,” Mr. Cameron said in
\nan interview this week. “But the evidence is pretty darn compelling and it
\ndefinitely bears further study.”<\/p>\n
Not everyone agrees. “It’s a beautiful story, but without any proof
\nwhatsoever,” archaeologist Dr. Amos Kloner, who wrote the original report on
\nthe Talpiyot cave findings, told an Israeli reporter last week. “The
\nnames…found on the tombs are names that are similar to the names of the
\nfamily of Jesus. But those were the most common names found among Jews in
\nthe first centuries BCE and CE.”<\/p>\n
Yet if the individual names were common, the film and book ask: what is the
\nlikelihood that this particular group of names, so resonant of the Jesus
\nstory, would appear together, contained in the same family tomb?<\/p>\n
“There are really only two possibilities,” says director Jacobovici. “Either
\nthis cluster of names represents the tomb of Jesus of Nazareth and his
\nfamily. Or some other family, with this very same constellation of names,
\nexisted at precisely the same time in history in Jerusalem.”<\/p>\n
To calculate the odds, Mr. Jacobovici took the data to University of Toronto
\nmathematician Dr. Andrey Feuerverger. Factoring in the commonality of these
\nnames in first-Century Israel, Dr. Feuerverger puts the odds of this tomb
\nnot belonging to Jesus and his family at one in 600.<\/p>\n
Another estimate, commissioned by Dr. James Tabor, chair of the department
\nof religion studies at the University of North Carolina, puts the odds at
\none in 42 million. “If you took the entire population of Jerusalem at the
\ntime,” says Dr. Taber, “and put it in a stadium, and asked everyone named
\nJesus to stand up, you’d have about 2,700 men. Then you’d ask only those
\nwith a father named Joseph and a mother named Mary to remain standing. And
\nthen those with a brother named Yose and a brother named James.
\nStatistically, you end up with one person.”<\/p>\n
The James reference is significant because of the 10 ossuaries found at
\nTalpiyot, one later disappeared. Many experts believe that coffin is the now
\ninfamous ‘James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus’ ossuary that turned up a
\nfew years ago and was put on public display at the Royal Ontario Museum.<\/p>\n
Although many scholars have called the inscription ‘brother of Jesus’ a
\nmodern-day forgery, at least as many academics continue to believe in its
\nauthenticity.<\/p>\n
Moreover, tests conducted for The Lost Tomb of Jesus show that the patina
\nencrusted on the James ossuary bears precisely the same chemical thumbprint
\nas the other ossuaries found at Talpiyot.<\/p>\n
Neither the provenance nor the age of the ossuaries is not in dispute. The
\nboxes, never out of the control of professional archaeologists, are
\neffectively self-dating, since the practice of re-interring the bones of the
\ndead in limestone boxes a year after death was conducted by Jews in the Holy
\nLand for a period of only 100 years. Prominent families stored the boxes in
\nfamily tombs.<\/p>\n
Moreover, all the inscriptions have been corroborated by some of the world’s
\nleading epigraphers, including Harvard’s Frank Moore Cross.<\/p>\n
The ‘Jesus, son of Joseph’ marking is considered rare; of thousands of
\ninscriptions so far catalogued, only one other bone coffin contained the
\nsame construction.<\/p>\n
No Christian tradition suggests that Jesus had a son, but the Gospel of John
\ndoes refer to “the beloved disciple” who rests on Jesus’ lap at the last
\nsupper.<\/p>\n
And perhaps, says Mr. Jacobovici, “although this is pure speculation, when
\nJesus on the cross says ‘mother, behold thy son,’ he’s not referring to
\nhimself or to his mother, but to his son, who is there with Mary Magdalene”.<\/p>\n
The book of Mark, he adds, also contains a passage that might allude to a
\nson — a reference to a young man, wearing nothing but linen who follows
\nJesus after his arrest and, when guards try to apprehend him, slips out of
\nhis clothes and escapes naked.<\/p>\n
“That’s a very odd story,” says Mr. Jacobovici. “There’s no name is given
\nfor the young lad, but the gospel writer obviously thought it was important
\nto tell it.”<\/p>\n
“None of us,” maintains Dr. Tabor, “are gleefully presenting this as though
\nwe’ve trumped Christianity. If anything, it might help clarify and refine it
\na bit. Some people will immediately say this is sensationalism. I don’t
\nagree with that. I know enough about it to say this is a subject that
\ndeserves serious and continued investigation.”<\/p>\n
Indeed, it’s likely that there will be sequel to The Lost Tomb of Jesus.
\nWhile searching for the original Talpiyot cave, the filmmakers stumbled upon
\na second crypt, only 20 meters away that has never been explored by
\narchaeologists. A miniature camera inserted into the tomb revealed three
\nossuaries.<\/p>\n
————<\/p>\n
THE JESUS FAMILY TOMB:
\nTHE DISCOVERY, THE INVESTIGATION, AND THE EVIDENCE
\nTHAT COULD CHANGE HISTORY
\nBy Simcha Jacobovici (Author), Charles Pellegrino (Author)
\nHardcover: 240 pages
\nPublisher: HarperSanFrancisco (February 27, 2007)
\nLanguage: English
\nAmazon.com Sales Rank: #349 in Books<\/p>\n