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Wednesday, March 07, 2012
The Talpiot Tomb and the Beatles
Over on the ASOR blog, I comment on the statistical case for the identification of the Talpiot Tomb with the family of Jesus, playing with the analogy from the Beatles that Simcha Jacobovici so likes:
Is there any archaeological evidence for the earliest christians in Jerusalem? I don't think there is any. In Pompeii, an inscription CHRISTIANOS, a plural noun, written in Latin, was found.
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Is there any archaeological evidence for the earliest christians in Jerusalem? I don't think there is any. In Pompeii, an inscription CHRISTIANOS, a plural noun, written in Latin, was found.
I wonder if Richard Bauckham would write an essay about the CHRISTIANOS inscription.
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