TalkingApes

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Biblical experts and archaeologists who are familiar with the central evidence instantly discounted the claim, which Discovery Channel has touted as possibly “the greatest archaeological find in history,” as an ill-informed, recycled publicity grab.

The chances that the findings in “The Lost Tomb of Jesus” are real “are more than remote,” Israel Museum curator David Mevorah said. “They are closer to fantasy.”

http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=171237&Sn=WORL&IssueID=29344

WASHINGTON: The burial site of Jesus has been found and suggests he had a wife and son, according to highly sensitive claims in a documentary by Titanic director James Cameron and Simcha Jacobovici. The claims inject controversy into the issue of resurrection central to Christianity and, if accurate, could reignite questions about Jesus’ earthy family life popularised in the book The Da Vinci Code.

Cameron and Jacobovici, an award-winning documentary director, said their research suggested Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had a son, Judah.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=nation_world&id=5070886

If you listen to the researchers, they’ll tell you they may have uncovered the greatest archeological find in history. Talk to the critics, however, and it’s a different viewpoint regarding the news. They say it’s a massive publicity stunt for a soon-to-air TV documentary. Either way, the central finding of this research appears to discredit a bedrock belief of the Christian faith.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070226-jesus-tomb.html

Inscriptions on the boxes, in addition to DNA tests of tiny bits of tissue found inside, suggest that the cave was the final resting place of Jesus, his disciple Mary Magdalene, and their son, the filmmakers said.

The claims, if verified, could threaten key tenets of the Christian faith, most notably that Jesus never married or had children and that he was resurrected three days after his death.

“The evidence is compelling,” said Jane Root, president of Discovery Channel, which will air the film on Sunday. “The consequences are enormous.”

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1593893,00.html?xid=site-cnn-partner

Meet the Jesuses! Cameron told the press that when Jacobovici, who has been working on the project for years, laid it out for him in detail, he thought, “I’m not a biblical scholar, but it seemed pretty darned compelling.” He added, “I said, this is the biggest achaeology story of the century. And I still believe that to be true.”

If true, of course, it is more than that. If true, it is a contradiction, in the most earthy, concrete way, of the Bible, which claims that Jesus was taken up bodily into heaven.

But as its creators have revealed more and more of it over the last two days, key parts of it seem increasingly like debatable conjecture.