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November 04 BOOK 91: The Jesus Family Tomb by Jacobvici Well, what to say about this book. It seemed like a rather long book to convince the reader that the statistical probability of so many names in Jesus' family being inscribed on ossuaries in one tomb and the family NOT being Jesus' family is pretty high. Does that make sense? Mostly, the researchers used mathematical formulas and probablility calculations to determine if the bodies found in the tomb "could" belong to Jesus and his family. Their reasoning was that although, Jesus, Joseph, Mary, James, Jose and Judah were very, very common names in the time Jesus lived, the chances of more than one family having all the same names is unlikely, therefore this must be "the Jesus" family as opposed to any other Jesus family. The book also touches on the subject of whether or not Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married and had a child, again, inconclusive, but the researchers use text from the bible and the Talmud to prove that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were more than Master and disciple and that Mary herself was a Master and that Jesus "knew" her in the biblical sense. The reason they hid the birth of their child, Judah, was that he would have been in danger after Jesus' arrest and crucifixion so his family pretended he was Jesus' younger brother rather than his son. Although there was some human tissue that could be used for some DNA tests, there is no known DNA to match to Jesus. Did the book convince me that Jesus' family tomb was found? I am not sure, I agree it would be a huge coincidence if it wasn't his family's tomb, but in the end, really what difference does it make? There is some argument that Jesus can't have a tomb as he ascended to heaven and did not die a mortal death, so there should be no body, ergo no tomb and no ossuary. However, if you believe that Jesus was a real person who had a message to impart and that he did die on the cross, mortally, and his body was removed from the tomb of Joseph of Arithamea as soon as possible, then his remains would be resting in his family tomb - in their rightful place. TrackbacksWeblogs that reference this entry
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