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Back to the original topic, I think the other shoes are starting to fall on this story...from this month's People magazine:
Joe Zias, physical anthropologist who catalogues the ossuaries as they were excavated says the claim is bunk. "We're talking about people without any credibility whatsoever." Zias also said that there were as many as 200 separate bodies in the tomb, making the 6 names Cameron et al decided to talk about much less significant. In other words, the question shifts from "How likely is it that these 6 people would be buried together in a family tomb" to "How likely is it that 6 people out of 200 had these names in ancient Israel?"
Lawrence Stager, professor of archeology at Harvard said there were 71 bodies with the name Jesus on the ossuary buried in the cemetary where the tomb was found. He is quoted as saying "I would describe this as a sheep-and-donkey show."
Ouch. Time to put the champagne away boys.
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Rick
1984 911 coupe
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