what was all that about on the news this morning about the possible bones of Jesus and/or Mary, anyone got?

Question

more info on it?

Answer 1

I got no info for you. I don't really know anything about it. They just found something Bibical and they will have to study it more before they know what it really is.

Answer 2

ya know this would be funny because it would blow the whole basis for christianity out of the water because I thought Jesus ascended into heaven on the third day... body and all. And Mary did too. Ha I hope thats the "real" jesus... it would be an awesome step towards the truth that there is no god.

Answer 3

sound guy found a tomb that had the names Jesus, Mary and Joesph. He then "assumed" it has to be from Jesus for such names to be there just couldn't happen.

Yet he is clueless that those 3 names are the most common for that region during that time. There are over 9 other tombs that have the same markings, showed by a local that studied it all. He himself said its nothing more than a family grave site.

Answer 4

It was actually discovered over 20 years ago,it's only now that people are paying

attention to it.
The most popular names in that era for males were:
Simon
Joseph
Eleazar
Judah
John
Jesus
Hananiah
Jonathan
Matthew
Manaen/Menahem
The most popular female names for that era were:
Mary/Mariamne
Salome
Shelamzion
Martha
In that era,21% of Jewish women were named Mary!

There is no other DNA sample of Jesus or His family to compare the remains with!All

the DNA proves,is that the ones in the tomb were related!

Jesus' family were not even from Jerusalem.Jospeh's home he grew up in was in

Bethlehem,and Jesus and his family lived in Galilee.Why would they be buried in

Jerusalem,where they had no connection?

There is absolutely no evidence supporting the idea that Jesus was married or had a

child,biblical or non-biblical.

The ossuaries that mention Mary,do not have any other descriptive features.They

simply say 'Mary.

The 'James son of Joseph,brother of Jesus' ossuary,which the makers of this film used to try and back up their claim,has been proven to be a forgery.

The main scholar who is the source for the story does not think it is Jesus' tomb.

Says Bar-Ilan University Professor Amos Kloner,"..those were the most common names

found among Jews in the first centuries BCE and CE"

Prof. Amos Kloner, the Jerusalem District archeologist who officially oversaw the

work at the tomb in 1980 and has published detailed findings on its contents, on

Saturday night dismissed the claims. "It makes a great story for a TV film," he told

The Jerusalem Post. "But it's impossible. It's nonsense."

Prof. Kloner said there was no way the tomb housed the Holy Family.
The senior Israeli archaeologist who thoroughly researched the tombs after their

discovery, and at the time deciphered the inscriptions, cast serious doubt on it.
"It is just not possible that a family who came from Galilee, as the New Testament

tells us of Joseph and Mary, would be buried over several generations in Jerusalem."

Kloner said the names found on the ossuaries were common, and the fact that such apparently resonant names had been found together was of no significance. He added that "Jesus son of Joseph" inscriptions had been found on several other ossuaries over the years."There is no likelihood that Jesus and his relatives had a family tomb," Kloner said. "They were a Galilee family with no ties in Jerusalem. The Talpiot tomb belonged to a middle-class family from the 1st century CE."

"Archeological evidence shows that chances of these being the actual
burials of the Holy Family are almost nil," said Motti Neiger, a spokesman for the
Antiquities Authority.


"Simcha has no credibility whatsoever," says Joe Zias, who was the curator for

anthropology and archeology at the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem from 1972 to 1997

and personally numbered the Talpiot ossuaries. "He's pimping off the Bible … He got

this guy Cameron, who made 'Titanic' or something like that—what does this guy know

about archeology? I am an archeologist, but if I were to write a book about brain

surgery, you would say, 'Who is this guy?' People want signs and wonders. Projects

like these make a mockery of the archeological profession."
The official report written by the archeologist Amos Kloner found nothing remarkable

in the discovery. The cave, it said, was probably in use by three or four

generations of Jews from the beginning of the Common Era. It was disturbed in

antiquity, and vandalized.

Answer 5

I think it's a publicity stunt by the filmmaker James Cameron.

Answer 6

funny how they just found them you know. You'd think they'd have been found long ago, with names like that on their tombs.

Answer 7

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