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The revival of the Jesus Tomb means the question of what kind of Resurrection is relevant. The short answer is a resurrection into a spiritual but material body, what the church has called a bodily or physical resurrection, but not simply a reproduction of mortal flesh. I have reproduced the key parts

Several others are now making statemnts about the Jerusalem Meeting. I will not post them all, but just give the links.

Ben Witherington has also just made a post. I will post much of it.

Here is Witherington's take:

Before I head to church, here is a report James Tabor sent out about the conference. It confirms the responses I have been getting. What is important here is that these reports to me are coming from all sides of those who attended–so I trust they reflect a balance of the views. Anyway, here is his report in full, used with his permission. His thanks to Jim Charlesworth for holding the conference and the effort involved is something to be noted. A gathering like this takes much work and does perform a service in disucssions like this.

Here is Tabor's Report:

Here is Yet Another Summary on the Jerusalem Conference from Christopoher Rollston, an Epigrapher

Christopher Rollston on The Talpiot Conference: A Guest Posting

Well, it has been one of those weeks. Semester starts, New web site launched. Jesus tomb resurrects. Judas talk rages. It is hard to keep up with it all.

April DeConick of Rice emailed me to let me know of her respoinse to Marvin Meyer's 13th Daimon on the Gospel of Judas. She has divided it into short segments. The site is:

It is a pleasure to welcome you to this new site. Our goal is to keep you up to speed on issues related to Jesus. We have a team of Jesus scholars who will each take turns posting a week at a time. They are also free to chime in on issues whenever they wish. We will be introducing them over the next several weeks- one at a time.

Our hope is to allow busy pastors and lay people to be able to come to one site and get a variety of feedback on things associated with Jesus. Each of our contributors is an evangelical, but ones who have written for wider academic contexts.

It has been one of those days. Judas's Gospel and the Jesus Tomb have come back to the fore, all in one day. My friend, Stephen Pfann, who runs the University of the Holy Land, was at the Jerusalem Conference on the Jesus Tomb. I emailed him to ask what he thought took place. He replied by pointing me to his blog entry from today. Here is his blog entry, which is posted also on his site at:

Marvin Meyer emailed me yesterday to let me know about his response to April DeConick on Judas. Meyer worked on Judas for the National Geographic team and has published many translations of the extra-biblical gospels. He has created a web site for the responses.

It is: www.chapman.edu/meyer.