Gay Marriage: Analysis Of Newsweek's Article
Post 1: The Beginning
Post 2: Journalistic Integrity
Post 3: Bible And Marriage
Post 4: Homosexuality and the Bible
Post 5: Remaining Issues
Dr. Darrell Bock is Research Professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary. He also is Professor for Spiritual Development and Culture there. He is an Editor at Large for Christianity Today and is a Past President of the Evangelical Theological Society (2000-2001). He is the author of over twenty books and is a New York Times Best Selling author. He has been blogging on this site since May, 2006.
jn's comments/questions queries are full of inaccuracies themselves. Let me note but a few. The ten ossuaries are NOT attributed to Jesus. Only two of the ten have the name Jesus, so this is "a" Jesus. All the other "links" are assumed to be the case. On the question of how many names existed at the time. Wer have over 900 ossuaries and a data-base of names stretching across three centuries, we know that 75% of names (male and female) came from 16 names total. All of the names in the tomb consist of these names as rare names are merely nicknames for the common ones in a context where one needs to distinguish between people sharign the same name (Jose is a nickname of Joseph, Mariamne is one for Mary). The didea that Jesus fashioned this tomb is even more unlikely. Jesus was from Galilee not Jerusalem. His family's tomb would have been located there. These are but a few of the responses to the questions you raised.