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One of the ossuaries (small caskets) found in the supposedly family tomb of Jesus says:<\/p>\nOne of the ossuaries (small caskets) found in the supposedly family tomb of Jesus says:<\/p>\n
“in Greek, Mariamne e mara \u00e2\u20ac\u201d meaning \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcMariamne, known as the master.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 “\u00c2\u00a0 The Jesus Tomb filmmakers say that means this is Mary Magdalene.<\/p>\n
How come we’ve never heard this “known as the master” thing before, if it is supposedly Magdalene’s “real” name?\u00c2\u00a0 I’ll admit it’s fascinating since we believe our Magdalene was a teacher of wisdom.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0However, Jesus was known as “the master.”\u00c2\u00a0 So what the heck are these filmmakers trying to prove\u00c2\u00a0or trying to debunk?\u00c2\u00a0 Are they saying\u00c2\u00a0Jesus wasn’t even the teacher, but Magdalene was the master?<\/p>\n
I think this is not Jesus’ family tomb and fraudsters are enjoying trying to foist it on us.<\/p>\n
They say in Aramaic\u00c2\u00a0“mara” means “master.”\u00c2\u00a0Yet the inscription is written in Greek, “Mariamene e Mara.”<\/p>\n
Why wasn’t\u00c2\u00a0Magdalene\u00c2\u00a0put on the box if it was put into so many gospels, canonical and gnostic written around the same time period as the ossuary?<\/p>\n
Here’s the excerpt I am referring to above:<\/p>\n
The two provocative works suggest that ossuaries once containing the bones of Jesus of Nazareth and his family are now stored in a warehouse belonging to the Israel Antiquity Authority in Bet Shemesh, outside Jerusalem.<\/p>\n
Although the evidence contained in the film and book is hardly definitive, it is compelling. Inscribed in Hebrew, Latin or Greek, six boxes \u00e2\u20ac\u201d taken from a 2,000-year-old cave discovered in March, 1980, during excavation for a housing project in Talpiyot, south of Jerusalem \u00e2\u20ac\u201d bear the names: Yeshua (Jesus) bar Yosef (son of Joseph); Maria (the Latin version of Miriam, which is the English Mary); Matia (the Hebrew equivalent of Matthew, a name common in the lineage of both Mary and Joseph); Yose; (the Gospel of Mark refers to Yose as a brother of Jesus); Yehuda bar Yeshua, or Judah, son of Jesus; and in Greek, Mariamne e mara \u00e2\u20ac\u201d meaning \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcMariamne, known as the master.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122
\nAccording to Harvard professor Francois Bovon, interviewed in the film, Mariamne was Mary Magdalene\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s real name.<\/p>\n
The bones once contained in the boxes have long since been reburied, according to Jewish custom \u00e2\u20ac\u201d in unmarked graves in Israel.<\/p>\n
If the evidence adduced is correct, the bone boxes \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and microscopic remains of DNA still contained inside \u00e2\u20ac\u201d would constitute the first archaeological evidence of the existence of the Christian saviour and his family.<\/p>\n
Tests on mitochondrial DNA obtained from the Jesus and Mariamne boxes and conducted at Lakehead University\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Paleo-DNA laboratory, in Thunder Bay, Ont., show conclusively that the two individuals were not maternally related. According to Dr. Carney Matheson, the lab\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s head, this likely means they were related by marriage.<\/p>\n
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Buried there in this supposedly family tomb of Jesus was a Matia \/ Matthew.\u00c2\u00a0 Matthew was a disciple, never listed as a brother, but since he is buried in this family tomb they now claim he was a family member.\u00c2\u00a0 They are stretching to make things fit.<\/p>\n
Furthermore,\u00c2\u00a0 Judah \/ Yehuda\u00c2\u00a0is inscribed on another casket as bar Yeshua meaning son of Joshua (Jesus).\u00c2\u00a0 But the Bible says Jesus had a *brother* named Jude, not a son named Judah\u00c2\u00a0(Matt. 13:55.)\u00c2\u00a0 We have here alot of common names: Joshua, Mary, Judah and an extra Matia dude, while Joseph and James are missing and the Judah is a son of the Joshua person.\u00c2\u00a0 How can we know it was the family of Jesus of Nazareth\/Galilee?\u00c2\u00a0 If they had said something like “known as the messiah”(!), or\u00c2\u00a0itinerate preacher and healer,\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0or mentioned Joseph of Arimethea whose tomb it supposedly was, maybe we might think it was the family we’re talkin’ about.<\/p>\n
Oh, and unlike another article claims (see my blog http:\/\/northernway.org\/weblog\/?p=18<\/a> ) the inscription on the Joshua’s casket doesn’t read Jesus son of Mary, son of Joseph but just Jesus\/Joshua son of Joseph.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0There is\u00c2\u00a0a Maria also present in this family tomb.\u00c2\u00a0 They found out Jesus and the one they think is Magdalene are not maternally related but did they find out the Maria one IS maternally related to the Joshua bar Yosef one?\u00c2\u00a0 Seems too convenient that the bones found in the caskets are long since re-buried so we’ve only got microscopic DNA samples.\u00c2\u00a0 Convenient.<\/p>\n * * * * * * * * * * *<\/p>\n Here’s another article about the Mariamene e mara inscription:<\/p>\n From the site for the Jesus Tomb film:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.jesusfamilytomb.com\/the_tomb\/mariamene_e_mara.html<\/p>\n Mariamene e Mara<\/p>\n Ossuary 80\/500: “Mariamene e Mara” – “Mariamne, also called Master”<\/p>\n The ossuary of a Jewish woman who moved in Greek circles.<\/p>\n The ossuary of an elite, a “Mara,” a “Master.”<\/p>\n The “Mara” added at the end of her name, in Aramaic, means “Master” Mary Magdalene was likely a woman of means, helping to fund Jesus and To the Greek Orthodoxy, Mary is a Saint, the Holy Myrrh-Bearer and From such non-canonical Gnostic texts such as The Pistis Sophia and And that she died at the Jordan River, “near Jerusalem,” not in Mariamne, Mary Magdalene, was indeed a Mara.<\/p>\n * * * * * * * *<\/p>\n The last line is true, and makes me want to believe it, but it just doesn’t “click” that this is our<\/em> Magdalene.\u00c2\u00a0 Some have suggested she could’ve gone to France as the legends all say and then been returned to the family tomb after her death.\u00c2\u00a0 But she wasn’t a Jerusalemite.\u00c2\u00a0 Magdalene might be from Bethany if she’s also Mary of Bethany, which I believe she is.\u00c2\u00a0 Or she might be from Galilee, all the way in the North of Israel, far from Jerusalem.\u00c2\u00a0 Mary of Jerusalem, the woman in whose upper room the Passover Last Supper took place, might have been called “a master.”\u00c2\u00a0 Her son was Mark, a little boy at the time of the Resurrection who grew up, went to Rome to be with Peter and legend has it, wrote the oldest of the four Gospels, the Gospel of Mark.<\/p>\n And I wonder if Jesus’ own mother, as an incarnation of Sophia could have been called “Master”.\u00c2\u00a0 Then the other Mary buried in the Talpiot tomb could be Mary Salome, Jesus’ aunt, or as I suspect, we have the wrong family altogether.<\/p>\n Too many Marys!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the ossuaries (small caskets) found in the supposedly family tomb of Jesus says: “in Greek, Mariamne e mara \u00e2\u20ac\u201d meaning \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcMariamne, known as the master.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 “\u00c2\u00a0 The Jesus Tomb filmmakers say that means this is Mary Magdalene. How come we’ve never heard this “known as the master” thing before, if it is supposedly … Continue reading Mariamne e mara known as the master – Magdalene?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mary-magdalene"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nor “teacher.” It is usually a masculine term, but then, Mariamne was
\nperforming duties usually restricted to men on the authority of Jesus.<\/p>\n
\nhis ministry. The Gospels tell us that the Magdalene, as she is
\nknown, went with Jesus on his fateful journey to Jerusalem, where she
\nwitnessed the Crucifixion. She was the first of the disciples to
\ndiscover the empty tomb of Jesus as well as the first to see the
\nRisen Jesus. She has been called “the apostle of the apostles”
\nbecause she was the one to bring the news to the rest of the
\ndisciples.<\/p>\n
\n“Equal-to-the-Apostles.”<\/p>\n
\nThe Gospel of Philip, we glean that Mariamne\/Magdalene was sister to
\nPhilip (one of the twelve original apostles) and Martha; that Jesus
\ncalled her “chosen among women”; that she performed miracles and
\nbaptized converts<\/p>\n
\nFrance or Ephesus as later tradition suggests.<\/p>\n