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The Jesus Family Tomb: The Discovery, the Investigation, and the Evidence That Could Change History (ISBN 0061192023) is a controversial book by Simcha Jacobovici and Charles R. Pellegrino (with a Foreword by James Cameron) published in February 2007. It tells the story of the discovery of the Talpiot Tomb which it argues is the tomb of Jesus Christ and his family.
The book is an in-depth analysis of the movie The Lost Tomb of Jesus, which was released on the Discovery Channel in early March 2007.
The Names in the Tomb
The tomb in Talpiot, excavated in salvage archaeology, originally contained ten ossuaries - bone boxes for secondary burial. Of the ten, one disappeared - presumably stolen. Of the other nine, six were inscribed with names:
- Yeshua bar Yosef - inscription in Aramaic, meaning "Jesus son of Joseph." By itself, it does not constitute conclusive evidence, since there must have been over a thousand men named "Yeshua bar Yosef" in first-century Jerusalem. However, the other five names are all connected with the New Testament Jesus.
See also
External Links
- Official Site for the "Lost Tomb of Jesus": http://www.jesusfamilytomb.com
- Discovery channel aritcle: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/02/25/tomb_arc_02.html?category=archaeology&guid=20070225073000
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