The Jeus Family Tomb?

Question

Have you heard about it?

What are your impressions?

Answer 1

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=A9FJusAW.uJFCGwBVA3sy6IX?qid=20070226063737AAeYIDP



im going to be seeing this question all day arent i? lol

Answer 2

Yes, I've heard about it. James Cameron is supposedly going to hold a press conference about it today.

From what I've read -- an excerpt from a forthcoming book on MSNBC -- the presumption is that Jesus' tomb contained Jesus, Mary, Mary Magdelene, Matthew and Jesus' "son," named Judah (if I recall correctly).

I don't have any impressions yet; I guess I'll wait to see what he's got for evidence.

I'm a faithful Christian, though, and I don't think there's anything that can really shake that faith. I do bear in mind that others have claimed through the centuries to have located Jesus Christ's tomb, and of course, the names of the inhabitants were common at the time.

Answer 3

I read what the Discovery Channel has up about it. It is a little short on details, but the ones that are there point to a pretty good case.

The evidence is that the names are all over the walls. It has Joesph, Mary. Son Jesus and James. Wife of Jesus Mary and son Judah. The DNA recovered shows the relationships are exactly what the markers describe etc. It isn't a slam dunk, but the odds of all the names coming out exactly the way the Bible story is are huge. This would be accepted any where if it didn't have conflicts with the Bible stories.

Here it is: http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/tomb/tomb.html?clik=www_wh_1

Answer 4

The original Jewish professor who worked on the site, Amos Kloner, has already come forward to expose the claims as sheer nonsense.

Kloner said,"There is no likelihood that Jesus and his relatives had a family tomb. They were a Galilee family with no ties in Jerusalem. The Talpiot tomb belonged to a middle-class family from the 1st century CE."

Answer 5

Have not heard of it...how would it be proven. There is no DNA evidence that can be used to identify.

The DNA evidence from these ossuaries only shows that the remains found within the ones marked "Jesus" and "Mary" were not related. It does not show that the remains belonged to either Jesus or to Mary Magdalene. After all, we don't have any DNA samples from Christ. Therefore, this whole thing is nothing more than sheer speculation and another in a series of crass attempts to debunk Christian beliefs during Lent.

Answer 6

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3368731,00.html

My impression is that they can't prove anything with this.
First of all, the only thing DNA testing will prove is that it was someone of middle eastern descent who lived at that timeframe. There's no original DNA to test against.
IF they translated the names correctly, there will be some suspicion that this is where the mythos of Jesus originated, but there are no birth records, no death record, no self-written documents by this person, no secular historical record of this person that so many worship as the son of God, so it doesn't do a lot.
I cannot imagine too many christians having their faith shaken by this at all.
At worst, they'll find out that this is like that tombstone found a few years ago that said that it was James, Brother of Jesus and turned out to be a hoax.

Answer 7

I saw that movie. The Davincii code was a fictional story wasn't it?

Answer 8

Ridiculous. Absurd.

Answer 9

It's a crock!