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 were...
Simcha Jacobovici
$imcha Jacobovici Nailed Again
Pardon the pun. This time archaeologist Joe Zias puts it to Jacobovici regarding his "discovery" of the nails of Jesus' cross in the Talpiot tomb. Hope this hurts $imcha's bank account a bit.
Nailing $imcha Jacobovici
A few more posts by scholars still engaged with Simcha Jacobovici. Talk about shooting fish in a barrel. Here's one more from Mark Goodacre, who discusses the non-extant textual material that $imcha uses to build his vacuous argument. And then Todd Bolen reports on...
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.