(Image- Princeton) Just before Easter, James Tabor and Simcha Jacobovici made all sorts of sensational claims about their discovery of a new ‘Patio’ tomb at Talpiot. These are the same guys who brought us the supposed ‘Jesus Family Tomb’ a couple of years ago. They produced a book and a documentary all about their new […]

A panel of scholars and researchers met in Jerusalem this week to view the evidence and to present there own research on the ‘Jesus Tomb’ claims made in a documentary by James Cameron and Simcha Jacobovici last year. Most rejected the claims as being rather doubtful. The original scholars who analyzed the Greek inscription on […]

Read my review of the documentary shown on Discovery Channel, March 4, 2007. I have it posted at my MOVIES & TV Commentary Blog. There are so many inaccuracies and so many facts left out of the documentary that it can hardly be considered anything more that an interesting and controversial docu-drama. Dr. Ben Witherington […]

Here we are in the Lent/Easter season again and here comes a new documentary rehashing some old archaeological evidence (BBC reported on this stuff 11 years ago) in a rather spectacular way. Familiar Biblical names like Joseph, Mary, Jesus (Joshua), Mariamene, and Judah son of Jesus (Joshua) on ossuaries (caskets) buried together. Add statistics, DNA […]