The lost tomb of Jesus?

[AznSAE]

did anyone catch the premier of this documentary on the discovery channel? if you did, what do you think?

[Drolefille]

Didn't catch the special but read about it, and it sounds like precisely what happens when non-specialists get involved in archaelogy. You get a lot of ANSWERS and DISCOVERIES that the real scientists just somehow ignored.

[RU OX Alum]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Didn't catch the special but read about it, and it sounds like precisely what happens when non-specialists get involved in archaelogy. You get a lot of ANSWERS and DISCOVERIES that the real scientists just somehow ignored.

are you being sarcastic?

[Drolefille]

Very very much so. These caskets were found at least 5 years ago and it took a Hollywood guy to get excited about them? It's the same thing with the casket found several years ago that said James brother of Jesus. Why are we so arrogant to assume that we know this is "THE" Jesus.

Imagine a man named John today did fantastic things and a religion started following him. In 2000 years someone finds a tombstone that says John on it... What are the odds that that is the correct John? An estimate states that 50% of Jewish women at that time were named Miriam or some derivative (including Mary).

Finally, for this to make sense, Jesus would have to be moved from the first tomb on the Sabbath into this fully finished and paid for family tomb that NO ONE knew about. (Or they all just kept secret when writing those Gospels) Why would a (widowed) carpenter's family have a tomb? A family one. Near Jerusalem. When they lived in Nazareth and may or Joseph may not have been originally from Bethlehem? It just doesn't make sense, and is little more than a few scientists who are willing to grasp at straws for some attention. It's a great historical find, but the odds that it has anything to do with Jesus of Nazareth are slim to none.

[macallan25]

The obvious solution is to get Tom Hanks, Dan Brown, and a pale, self-torturing Christian sect member involved. The truth will come.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

These caskets were found at least 5 years ago and it took a Hollywood guy to get excited about them?

Actually, they were found in 1980 -- 27 years ago. But I guess no one thought about the significance of them then. Of course, that probably just means that the Vatican was suppressing any reports of the find.

It's a great historical find, but the odds that it has anything to do with Jesus of Nazareth are slim to none.

Which seems to be what almost every archeologist not involved in Cameron's project, including non-Christian archeologists, has said about it.

Originally Posted by macallan25

The obvious solution is to get Tom Hanks, Dan Brown, and a pale, self-torturing Christian sect member involved. The truth will come.

If anything happens to James Cameron, Opus Dei will be first on the list of suspects.