Jesus Tomb

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

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: