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Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Tabor vs Charlesworth on the Talpiot Tomb discoveries

OK, I admit that my title is a little facetious, but regular readers will know of my interest in Synoptic issues, i.e. accounts that differ ...

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Christopher Skinner, What are they saying about the Gospel of Thomas?

My copy of Christopher Skinner, What are they Saying about the Gospel of Thomas? arrived just the other day and I'd like to recommend...

Thomas and the Gospels previewed by Larry Hurtado

Mark Goodacre Thomas and the Gospels I am grateful to Larry Hurtado, Gospel of Thomas and the Synoptic Gospels for his summary and end...

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Questioning the Identity of Ossuary 4 in Talpiot Tomb B

When looking at pictures of the photographs of the Talpiot Tomb B ossuaries, I found a number of anomalies. I wrote these up in the form of...

Ossuary Identification Post updated with Photographs

I was chatting to someone yesterday who said that they had not been able to follow the discussion of the identification of ossuaries in the ...

NT Pod: Historical Jesus Criteria

I have recently been focusing on criteria in the Historical Jesus quest in my regular podcast, the NT Pod . I'm in the middle of a co...

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Correction in Identifying One of the Talpiot Tomb B Ossuaries

I am grateful to James Tabor for his grace and good humour in first listening to my questions and then accepting my suggested correction ove...

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Talpiot B / Patio Tomb Roundup

Over on Rogue Classicism , David Meadows has an excellent round-up post on the Talpiot Tomb discussions so far, including details of where J...

James Ossuary Trial Verdict

Just catching up after a long day on the news that the James Ossuary trial, once called "the trial of the century", is in. It fee...

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

The Question of Uniqueness in the Teaching of Jesus

This week's reading for my Historical Jesus class includes a really wonderful piece by E. P. Sanders. It's been available on the we...

Robert Cargill illustrates Sins of Commission and Omission - and the Jesus Discovery Website reacts

Dr Robert Cargill has an outstanding post on the Talpiot Tomb B claims of Mr Simcha Jacobovici and Dr James Tabor: Sins of Commission an...

Monday, March 12, 2012

Anomalies in the Talpiot Tomb B Photographs

While I was looking at the Kloner's 1981 photograph of the ossuaries that are now the focus of Jacobovici's and Tabor's book, ...

Saturday, March 10, 2012

When is a fish not a fish? When it has handles

Most of the discussion of Talpiot Tomb B has focused, understandably, on the image that they claim is a big fish, pointing downwards, and sp...

Friday, March 09, 2012

The Da Vinci Code and the Talpiot Tomb

It is common for New Testament scholars and others to be disparaging about Simcha Jacobovici's claims first to have found the lost tomb ...

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 ...

Tuesday, March 06, 2012

Scales of a fish on the Talpiot ossuary?

Although my comments on the Talpiot ossuary B have focused so far on other issues, there is one thing I've been curious about in rela...

Jesus Tomb: I pointed out the mistakes

David Meadows drew my attention to this video that appeared on Youtube last year but which I had not previously seen: Here, Simcha Ja...

Monday, March 05, 2012

Was there a predisposition to find Jonah and the whale?

While revisiting my old post on the Errors and Inaccuracies found at the "Jesus Family Tomb" website (see also The Talpiot Tomb a...

"If it quacks like a fish" -- Simcha Jacobovici answers his critics

Simcha Jacobovici, who has recently been appointed professor of religious studies at Huntington University, has answered critics of The Jesu...

Sunday, March 04, 2012

Thaddeus

Over on Exploring our Matrix , James McGrath asks Was Thaddaeus Jesus’ Original Drummer, or his Secretary of Housing and Urban Development?...

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