Ossuary with the inscription "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus"
(Link Updated 2/25/07: Is the ossuary a fake? Link [wiki] )
James Cameron (yes, that guy who directed Titanic)
James Cameron (yes, that guy who directed Titanic)
an award winning documentary director, sure are stirring up a controversy:
they’re making a documentary about the (supposedly) real tomb of Jesus.
From Time Magazine:
Let’s go back 27 years, when Israeli construction workers were gouging out the foundations for a new building in the industrial park in the Talpiyot, a Jerusalem suburb. of Jerusalem.
The earth gave way, revealing a 2,000 year old cave with 10 stone caskets.
Archologists were summoned, and the stone caskets carted away for examination.
It took 20 years for experts to decipher the names on the ten tombs.
They were:
Jesua, son of Joseph, Mary, Mary, Mathew, Jofa and Judah, son of Jesua.
Not that this whole controversy is new:
there are many supposed tombs of Jesus,
besides the Church of the Holy Sepulchre [wiki] on the site where Jesus was crucified and buried according to most scholars,
the Garden Tomb outside of Jerusalem, Roza Bal shrine in Kashmir,
and Shingo, Aomori [wiki] in Japan where Jesus supposedly fled after the crucifixion.
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