Here I am in a hotel outside Disney World where daughter Rhea just had her fourth birthday today.\u00c2\u00a0 I found this Magdalene ossuary update in my inbox.\u00c2\u00a0 — Katia<\/p>\n
SCHOLAR OFFERS NEW CRITICISM OF “JESUS TOMB” DOCUMENTARY
\nAssociated Press, March 13, 2007<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2007\/03\/13\/africa\/ME-GEN-Israel-Jesus-Tomb.php<\/a><\/p>\n JERUSALEM – A prominent scholar looking into the factual basis of a popular Stephen Pfann, a textual scholar and paleographer at the University of the http:\/\/www.uhl.ac\/MariameAndMartha<\/a><\/p>\n Produced by Oscar-winning director James Cameron and directed by Simcha Despite widespread ridicule from scholars, it drew more than 4 million The film and book suggest that a first-century ossuary found in a south The filmmakers also suggest that Mary Magdalene was buried in the tomb, that The scholars who analyzed the Greek inscription on one of the ossuaries Before the movie was screened, Jacobovici said that particular inscription But having analyzed the inscription, Pfann, who made a brief appearance in The inscription, Pfann said, is made up of two names inscribed by two According to Pfann’s reading, the ossuary did not house the bones of “Mary “In view of the above, there is no longer any reason to be tempted to link In the interest of telling a good story, Pfann said, the documentary engaged “James Cameron is a great guru of science fiction, and he’s taking it to a In Israel Tuesday for a screening of the film, the Toronto-based Jacobovici But Jacobovici said scholars who researched the ossuary in the past agreed Jacobovici has faced criticism much tougher than Pfann’s academic critique. The film has been termed “archeo-porn,” and Jacobovici has been accused of “pimping the Bible.”<\/p>\n Jacobovici attributes most of the criticism to scholars’ discomfort with journalists “casting light into their ossuary monopoly.”<\/p>\n “What we’re doing is democratizing this knowledge, and this is driving some people crazy,” Jacobovici said.<\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here I am in a hotel outside Disney World where daughter Rhea just had her fourth birthday today.\u00c2\u00a0 I found this Magdalene ossuary update in my inbox.\u00c2\u00a0 — Katia SCHOLAR OFFERS NEW CRITICISM OF “JESUS TOMB” DOCUMENTARY Associated Press, March 13, 2007 http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2007\/03\/13\/africa\/ME-GEN-Israel-Jesus-Tomb.php JERUSALEM – A prominent scholar looking into the factual basis of a … Continue reading Not Magdalene’s Ossuary<\/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-26","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\/26","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=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nbut widely criticized documentary film that claims to have located the tomb
\nof Jesus said Tuesday that a crucial piece of evidence filmmakers used to
\nsupport their claim is a mistake.<\/p>\n
\nHoly Land in Jerusalem, said he has released a paper claiming the makers of
\n“The Lost Tomb of Jesus” were mistaken when they identified an ancient
\nossuary from the cave as belonging to the New Testament’s Mary Magdalene:<\/p>\n
\nJacobovici, the documentary has drawn intense media coverage for its claims
\nchallenging accepted Christian dogma.<\/p>\n
\nviewers when it aired on the Discovery Channel on March 4. A companion book,
\n“The Jesus Family Tomb,” has rocketed to sixth place on the New York Times
\nnonfiction best-seller list.<\/p>\n
\nJerusalem cave in 1980 contained the remains of Jesus, contradicting the
\nChristian belief that he was resurrected and ascended to heaven. Ossuaries
\nare stone boxes used at the time to store the bones of the dead.<\/p>\n
\nshe and Jesus were married, and that an ossuary labeled “Judah son of Jesus”
\nbelonged to their son.<\/p>\n
\nafter its discovery read it as “Mariamene e Mara,” meaning “Mary the
\nteacher” or “Mary the master.”<\/p>\n
\nprovided crucial support for his claim. The name Mariamene is rare, and in
\nsome early Christian texts it is believed to refer to Mary Magdalene.<\/p>\n
\nthe film as an ossuary expert, published a detailed article on his
\nuniversity’s Web site asserting that it doesn’t read “Mariamene” at all.<\/p>\n
\ndifferent hands: the first, “Mariame,” was inscribed in a formal Greek
\nscript, and later, when the bones of another woman were added to the box,
\nanother scribe using a different cursive script added the words “kai Mara,”
\nmeaning “and Mara.” Mara is a different form of the name Martha.<\/p>\n
\nthe teacher,” but rather of two women, “Mary and Martha.”<\/p>\n
\nthis ossuary…to Mary Magdalene or any other person in Biblical,
\nnon-Biblical or church tradition,” Pfann wrote.<\/p>\n
\nin some “fudging” of the facts.<\/p>\n
\nnew level with Simcha Jacobovici. You take a little bit of science, spin a
\ngood yarn out of it and you get another Terminator or Life of Brian,” Pfann
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
\nwelcomed Pfann’s criticism, saying “every inscription should be
\nre-examined.”<\/p>\n
\nwith the film’s reading. “Anyone who looks at it can see that the script was
\nwritten by the same hand,” Jacobovici said.<\/p>\n