James Tabor has a short, interesting piece over on the Huffington Post about where Dr. Ben Carson’s idea that the pyramids were the storehouses Joseph built to hold grain. It’s worth a read, though I have some correctives to offer to both Drs. Tabor and...
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Templar and Talpiot Twaddle: It Must be Easter
Ah, it's that time of year again. Readers will be thrilled to know that Simcha Jacobovici is keeping his "just so you know that Easter is really about me and my ideas" streak alive. In the past, Simcha has partnered with James Tabor to bunny hop all over the Christian...
Another Reason Why Biblical Studies and Archaeology Should Not Be Done Via the Mainstream Popular Media
Ah, the paleobabbling media now gives us proof that it is also clueless with respect to intellectual discourse. Mark Goodacre reports that Nicole Austin, the Associate Producer on The Resurrection Tomb Mystery documentary (The Jesus Discovery in Canada) has accused...
Two Items Regarding Talpiot B and James Tabor
I’m just reading James Tabor’s post regarding Prof. James Charlesworth’s apparent discovery of the name “Jonah” on the ossuary that purports to have a fish symbol on it. If that turns out to be a true inscription (looks pretty reasonable...
James Tabor’s Essay on Early Christianity’s View of Resurrection: A Review
I have to this point confined my thoughts on the “Jesus Family Tomb” (Talpiot A) and the more recent adjacent tomb (Talpiot B) to my PaleoBabble blog, but my thoughts on James Tabor’s recent blog post entitled, “Why People are Confused about...
Richard Bauckham on the Flimsy Evidence for Talpiot B as the Tomb of Joseph of Arimathea
I hope you all read the short but clear-headed guest post on Mark Goodacre’s NT Blog by guest blogger Richard Bauckham. Professor Bauckham does a nice job of succinctly demonstrating the tenuous nature of what seems to be the only data point approximating...
Update on the Talpiot B Tomb Inscription
For those of you interested in epigraphy, especially that of the Talpiot B “disciples’ tomb,” here are two follow-up posts in response to the recent offering of Richard Bauckham. One of the major points of contention in the inscription is whether or...
Something Fishy in Talpiot Tomb B
[UPDATE 3/16/2012: Click here for Prof. James Tabor’s response to Robert Cargill’s expose, the subject of the original post.] A busy day for Talpiot-related news! Not only did we have the verdict of the James ossuary trial , but yesterday Prof. Robert...
Responses to the James Ossuary Forgery Trial Verdict
A “not guilty” verdict in the seven-year trial of antiquities dealer Oded Golan was announced today. The trial was significant in that it involved the James ossuary (and so, naturally, its inscription, “James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus”)....
State of the Question for “Jesus Family Tomb” and Talpiot B
I was prodded to write this summary post by Mark Goodacre’s most recent post on Simcha Jacobovici’s apparent obliviousness to the academic criticisms of his work by Mark and others. In a video dated to last year, Jacobovici pretends to be unaware of any mistakes in...
Thoughts on the New “Talpiot B” Tomb
Just wanted to check in regarding the new Talpiot tomb discovery (referred to most often it seems as Talpiot B). I’m caught up with all the reading available online, beginning with James Tabor’s description of the discovery and sketch-analysis (“ A...
More on the New Talpiot Tomb
Lots of material being generated pretty quickly. Here is a worthwhile overview from Mark Goodacre’s NT blog. The post that Mark directs us to by Tom Verenna that serves as a collection of response is here (just in case you don’t click through to the...
Keeping Up with the Jacobovicis
The blogosphere is already heating up with responses from scholars to the new “discoveries” of $imcha Jacobovici and James Tabor. Those interested can keep up with the responses of professional scholars via the ASOR blog, which seems poised to become a...
Just in Time for Easter Cash Flow: The Tomb of Jesus’ Disciples
$imcha Jacobovici has busy. And amazingly, Easter is just around the corner (again). Oh, the irony. The man who brought us the error-plagued Jesus family tomb, then the nails from the cross, now claims that he has found a tomb which held the remains of at least some...
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...