Jesus family tomb

 

This blog continues where our last one left off. 

Spring 2007 saw the sensational claims by a new book and a Discovery Channel broadcast that the family tomb of Jesus had been discovered in the south Jerusalem Talpiot neighborhood.  The Ted Koppel special aired immediately afterwards pitted one of the book’s authors and a maverick scholar who supported him against a team of four biblical scholars, theologians and archeologists from evangelical, mainline Protestant and Catholic perspectives.  Now an outstanding anthology of scholarly respons

The Faculty of the University of the Holy Land comment again on the Jesus Family Tomb issue. This time in particular they make some interesting observations on the frequency of the use of the familiar name Yoseh (YWSH) as compared with the more formal form, Yehosef (YHWSF). The posting is interesting, but the post’s title is a real groaner of a pun! (If you don't get it, let me know in the comments to this post.)