The Jesus Tomb Hoax

Chase March 5th, 2007

Well, the documentary has aired, for better or worse. Mostly worse, but at least it wasn’t terribly boring. Here is a stub article containing links that show responses of top Biblical scholars and other news outlets. This post will be expanded as the day wears on, so keep checking back! The meaty posts are below this one, and begin with the numbers 1-5.

• J.E.T.S. editor and NT professor Andreas Kostenberger provided his blog readers with a Viewer’s guide, and then followed it up with a post game report, so to speak. Way to go, Dr. K!! Viewer’s Guide (click here)………Post Game Report (click here).

• Pittsburgh Post Gazette reviews the documentary. “Don’t throw out your New Testament’s yet!” Nice line…CLICK HERE

• Here is Ben Witherington’s post show response. I don’t think he cared for the documentary very much! CLICK HERE

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• Yahoo news column examining the evidence and claims after the fact. The conclusion? “The documentarians’ claim is not valid. The Cameron-sponsored Jesus Family Tomb proffers a specious claim based upon bad theory, bad statistics, and bad history. A careful examination of their evidence demands that their claim be rejected.”  AND “What they offer here is not science, but pseudo-science — polemic dressed in scientific language. Numbers and “tests” are trotted out, but only for the sake of appearance. The hypothesis is never actually in danger because the falsifying evidence is excised before the evaluation begins. In other words, the rules of the game are: heads they win, tails you lose. The game was rigged from the start.”    SOURCE

• Joe Zias, a middle east archaeologist with over 30 years of field experience, has offered this viewer’s guide. Notable quotes, “1. DNA - it means “absolutely nothing,” according to their own expert, not to mention it’s highly likely it’s not ancient DNA
  2. PATINA analysis is done by an automobile crash specialist, helped by an Israeli known for a Qumran fake” SOURCE

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