It's going to take more than statistical hoo-ha to make a convincing case.
Did this limestone box pictured below once hold the bones of Jesus? So goes the claim in a documentary film scheduled to be broadcast by the Discovery Channel March 4 at 9:00 PM, EST.…
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26 - jaz
i don't understand....
heh
:::ducks:::
27 - duane
jaz, bah! I ain't naming any names. I would be happy to exclude you from my sweeping generalization. It's just as often me who doesn't understand. But I like to think that I at least try.
28 - Deano
Gang, this documentary has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with MARKETING. Contraversy sells - as evidenced by Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, which was an utter crock historically but leveraged contraversy and complaint for a massive audience.
I think you need to put aside your outraged sensibilities and recognize that the Discovery Channel and James Cameron are worshippers at the Temple of Mammon and nowhere else....
29 - jaz
aww duane, was just teasing ya
lemme see if i can make it up to ya...something topical and sonically cool..
try this out.
30 - duane
Righteous.
31 - SHARK
UPDATE:
1) Haven't been back since BC management defended and then kept liar/fraud/editor Dave Nalle/Vox Populi on as keeper of the keys to the Political section. Went "silent" as a reaction to letting a liar-fraud Fox run dialectic Henhouse.
2) Have lots of interest in biblical archaeology -- not so much in this example; it appears to be a fake. And don't ever forget SHARK'S RULE #523: "All News is Marketing; All Marketing is News."
3) When reading ChristopherRose being dogmatic, pedantic atheist asshole trying to convince RuvyofJerusalem why being dogmatic, pedantic Jewish asshole is less desirable than his own particular reality-tunnel -- I am reminded why I don't come here anymore.
4) Blogcritics seems to be a destructive, dangerous addiction akin to heroin and/or Chili-flavored Fritos. I've been doing swell in kicking the habit; in the ensuing weeks off the drug, I've learned quantum physics, how to play classical guitar, 3-D chess, and took a walking tour of the Grand Canyon. (On my knees, btw.)
5) Not sure if I will continue to read barking dogs attempting to communicate with deaf cats.
6) I miss 'me' -- but will take it "a day at a time". ~Wish me luck.
[SHARK scans a few more "discussions" -- Processes data -- then tries to formulate thoughtful, appropriate response. ...puts 9mm Glock in mouth and...]
32 - Ruvy in Jerusalem
Just a 9mm Glock, Shark? I thought it took something stronger than that to sedate a Shark...;o)
Hey listen, dude. I'm being relatively restrained here. I demand lots more proof before this particular bit of marketing can be acceptable as "good news for modern Jews."
As for Chris Rose, I can't help it if he wants to stick the pitchfork of atheism in me.
You know how it goes in "Hotel California"?
"They kept with their stabbin' their forks, but they couldn't kill the beast."
I'm checkin' out for the night...
33 - Nancy
I know how you feel, Shark; sometimes I do, too. Really? You learned GUITAR...?!
34 - MCH
"5) Not sure if I will continue to read barking dogs attempting to communicate with deaf cats."
- Shark
If they get to close to Nalle/Populi's fortified compound, you won't have to worry about that.
35 - jaz
::::wonders if tossing enough chum in the *waters* will bring out the SHARK:::
36 - Martinjr
All i have to say anyone who believes this is a nut job. And anyone who is behind this documentary should be shot and burnt alive. This is wrong in so many ways, to put billions of peoples faith to test by losely gathered evidence!
37 - jaz
you might want to wait and actually SEE the program before calling for the producers and crew to be "shot and burnt alive"
you know...Christian forgiveness and all that
might i put it to you, that any whose "faith" can be "tested" by information or a silly TV program didn't really have any "faith" to begin with?
38 - Leslie Bohn
Mr. Jr:
I think you mean "burnt alive and shot." If you shoot them first, then they won't be alive when you burn them.
I guess you could just wound them with the gun, then finish them off with the burning.
39 - Scott
I bought and read 30 pages of the book today(The Jesus Tomb). It seems the ossuaries were reused in that the seals to the ossuaries were broken. Also, the one ossuary that contains "Jesus" was hardly discernible as to the name. Is it scratches or writing? Other ossuaries had very clear writing on the sides. It appears to me that the tomb was later modified by gnostic christians who did not believe in the physical ressurection of the body. Kind of a shrine. This would fit with the seals being broken and the inconsistent labeling of the ossuaries.After all, only the very wealthy could afford a carved tomb that held ossuaries so it is unlikely related to a common family such as Jesus'
40 - TQ
I have heard the argument that such an expensive tomb was unlikely for a common person like Jesus. Why would anyone call Jesus/family "common" at the time of Jesus' death???
IF he was buried in an expensive tomb, is it not quite likely that it was made available by his followers. After all, his status had elevated tremendously by the time of his death.
Forgive the comparison, but a great analogy would be current preachers affording a lifestyle they could not previously afford thru the donations of their flock. Again, forgive the comparison.
41 - TQ
What is really troubling is that so many people are threatened because Jesus is being portrayed as a special person with a special message who ate and slept and lived, more or less, like the rest of his comtemporaries.
Do we have to deify someone before their message becomes valid?
Do most followers deify their leaders?
Do founders of most religions engage in self-deification?
42 - Jim
Four names. I saw four names on a tombstone in Mexico recently, Maria, Jose, Jesus and Sally. Hmmm. I think Cameron ought to investigate there.
43 - Jim
As G.K. Chesterton wrote, "When men cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing, but anything." Here is a case in point.
44 - Christopher Rose
I just looked up G K Chesterton on Wikipedia. What a very confused person he was!