Thanks go to Mark Goodacre of Duke University for this short post linking us to a recent paper about the alleged Jesus family tomb. As is typical, Mark clearly and succinctly summarizes the two primary points of weakness in the tomb argument — weaknesses that...
Jesus bloodline mythology
Dan Brown and the Grail That Never Was
That’s part of the title of this 2004 scholarly article that examines Brown’s Jesus bloodline mythology. I don’t believe I’ve posted it before (going through the archives this weekend). The author is apparently a medievalist. It’s a...
Jesus Tomb Website: 17 Errors
Not sure how how missed this 2007 post on Mark Goodacre’s blog, but a recent post of his drew my attention to it. With more Jacobovici nonsense having recently arrived for Easter, I thought this was still worth letting you all know about.
The Talpiot Jesus Tomb
An emailer asked me about this today, and I was quite surprised that I had never posted this paper I wrote on the so-called Jesus tomb. I blogged about the tomb back in 2008, but I never posted this link (at least that I could find quickly). So, here it is .
Was Jesus’ Father a Roman Soldier?
In case you haven’t heard of the “Pantera/Panthera” tradition of Jesus’ lineage, here’s a moderately lengthy but readable discussion of it on Ben Witherington’s blog. The post is a couple years old and was originally posted in...
Was Cain Fathered by the Devil? No, Wait — Extraterrestrials
I’ve gotten more emails on this topic than I can shake a stick at, so I’ve decided to blog it and then just direct people to this post in the future. I don’t know who started this on the internet-probably one of those “I found secret knowledge...
Was Jesus Married According to the Gnostic Texts from Nag Hammadi? (Videos 2, 3, and 4)
The format for these videos is the same as the first one, where I searched the Nag Hammadi Gnostic gospels for any occurrence of the word “marry” (including married, marries, marrying, etc.) connected to Jesus. In these videos I search for other terms:...
Was Jesus Married According to the Gnostic Texts from Nag Hammadi? (Video 1)
Most people who read The Da Vinci Code never bothered to actually read the Gnostic Gospels themselves to see what they say about Jesus being married. That was unfortunate, and is a textbook example of why you should always go right to the source material for your...
Logic and the Jesus Tomb, Part 2 (of 2)
As I suggested in my first post on this issue, there is a serious need for clear thinking with regard to the Jesus tomb theory and the names in the tomb. The Jesus tomb theory is only compelling if two items are true: (1) that the Jesus of the tomb’s Jesus...
Logic and the Jesus Tomb Discussion, Part 1
As I and others have noted before, the real weight of the Jesus tomb debate hinges on primarily two points of data: (1) Whether a name that refers to Mary Magdalene is on one of the ossuaries, and (2) Whether the inscribed name “Yoseh” corresponds to the...
When Jesus Tomb Math Doesn’t Count
There’s one thing that practically everyone who has discussed the Jesus Tomb can all agree on: If you don’t have the name “Mariamne” (the alleged Mary Magdalene) in the tomb, the statistical odds have no chance of supporting a Jesus family...
James Tabor and Jesus Tomb Math
Will someone please keep James Tabor away from math? Dr. Tabor is a New Testament scholar and, judging by my exchanges with him, a very nice guy. He just happens to be the only scholar out there who is still defending the idea that the Talpiot tomb (“Jesus...