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Is Jesus Buried in Jerusalem?
Canadian filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici is about to cinematically rock the archeological and theological worlds with his claim that ten tombs found in Jerusalem in 1980 contain the remains of Jesus Christ and his family, including his son Judah and his wife Mary Magdelene.
An excerpt from his new documentary, “Burial Cave of Jesus,” will be shown for the first time at a press conference on February 26. It will premiere on World Discovery Channel, Britain's Channel 4, Canada's Vision and Israel's Channel 8. The film was co-produced by veteran Canadian director James Cameron, who made Titanic and The Terminator.
The Israeli-born Jacobovici worked with world-famous archeologists, statisticians and DNA experts to substantiate his belief that the 2,000-year-old tombs are those of the world’s most infamous familia. The existence of Jesus and Mary’s bones would refute the Christian idea that their bodies were ascended into heaven after their deaths. It could have a major impact on that religion.
As could a lawsuit before the European World Court charging the Roman Catholic Church with promulgating a lie for 2,000 years. Luigi Cascioli, the former priest who brought the suit, believes that the church knew all along that Jesus was modeled after John of Gamala, a Jewish rebel who led an unsuccessful coupe against the Roman occupiers. He was crucified around 33 AD.
No one expects Cascioli’s suit to get very far. But then again, no one expected it to go beyond the small Italian village court where it was first filed. The European Court isn’t likely to declare that the church has to stop teaching that Jesus is the son of God.
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The Israeli-born Jacobovici worked with world-famous archeologists, statisticians and DNA experts to substantiate his belief that the 2,000-year-old tombs are those of the world’s most infamous familia. The existence of Jesus and Mary’s bones would refute the Christian idea that their bodies were ascended into heaven after their deaths. It could have a major impact on that religion.
As could a lawsuit before the European World Court charging the Roman Catholic Church with promulgating a lie for 2,000 years. Luigi Cascioli, the former priest who brought the suit, believes that the church knew all along that Jesus was modeled after John of Gamala, a Jewish rebel who led an unsuccessful coupe against the Roman occupiers. He was crucified around 33 AD.
No one expects Cascioli’s suit to get very far. But then again, no one expected it to go beyond the small Italian village court where it was first filed. The European Court isn’t likely to declare that the church has to stop teaching that Jesus is the son of God.
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http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=4240#more
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"I'm not an archaeologist. I'm a filmmaker," said Cameron, who won the Academy Award for Best Director in 1998 for Titanic. "I looked at the evidence initially, and as a layman I found it to be compelling ... I haven't seen anything that contradicts the initial hypothesis."
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James Cameron's documentary claims the bones of Jesus, his mother Mary, father Joseph, and Mary Magdalene — who some say was his wife — were found in the tomb.
But CBS News correspondent Mark Philips reports that, although archeologists have long argued over the factual and historic accuracy of Christianity's version of history, in this case, the archeological establishment has lined up to label this claim as bunk.
Church officials have, predictably, dismissed the documentary's claims as nonsensical and baseless.
Biblical archaeologist Amos Kloner took part in the dig in the outskirts of Jerusalem that unearthed the tomb in question, and he's not buying the theory that the bones found at the site share DNA with the son of God either.
"What's the story, they found the DNA connecting Jesus to God? Can you check the DNA of god," Kloner, seen at left, sarcastically asked during an interview for the CBS News Early Show.
The tomb bears the names Jesus, Mary and Joseph and one of the caskets even bears the title, "Judah, son of Jesus," hinting that Jesus may have had a son.
But scientists have argued the names etched into the stone ossuaries which held the bones, which can be seen at left in a photo from Kloner's book, were extremely common during that time period, and in no way prove that the Jesus of the Bible was buried at the site with his family.
Another researcher whose work has focused on the Middle East, biblical anthropologist Joe Zias, has dismissed Cameron's claims as "dishonest".
"It has nothing whatsoever to do with Jesus, he was known as Jesus of Nazareth, not Jesus of Jerusalem, and if the family was wealthy enough to afford a tomb, which they probably weren't, it would have been in Nazareth, not here in Jerusalem," he said.
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