$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...
Talpiot tomb
Talpiot Tomb Makes Another Round in the Blogosphere
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...
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...
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.
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 ossuary...
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 Yose of 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 tomb. It seems that many who...
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 Tomb") is...