Comments on: The Jesus Family Tomb http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/2007/01/21/the-jesus-family-tomb/ My musings on Biblical Studies, Biblical Hebrew, Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, Popular Culture, Religion, Software, and pretty much anything else that interests me! Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:50:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: jefferson http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/2007/01/21/the-jesus-family-tomb/comment-page-1/#comment-97649 jefferson Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:20:18 +0000 http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/wp/2007/01/21/the-jesus-family-tomb/#comment-97649 After just some cursory visits to websites and blogs regarding this latest spin on the tomb site, I don’t recall reading whether the journalist/producer had preserved sufficient remains from the ossuary of “Jude.” Can someone enlighten me. The book purports to establish that the “Jesus” and “Mariamne” samples prove no familial DNA markers in common, which allows for further speculation. But wouldn’t DNA analysis of “Jude” remains (if they are extent and sufficiently authentic and validly assigned) determine, without doubt, a genetic relationship with those of the other two “persons” already analyzed?
Can anyone enlighten on this?

]]> By: Talmida http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/2007/01/21/the-jesus-family-tomb/comment-page-1/#comment-87911 Talmida Sun, 21 Jan 2007 17:54:29 +0000 http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/wp/2007/01/21/the-jesus-family-tomb/#comment-87911 I’ll have to keep an eye out for this program.

Over the holidays I read Kathy Reichs’ novel Cross Bones, in which Reichs’ heroine (Temperance Brennan) is involved in events surrounding the discovery of the tomb of Jesus’ family. In a post-script to the novel, Reichs writes:

“[Dr. James] Tabor phoned one morning, and spoke of looted tombs and purloined skeletons. He was writing a nonfiction work, The Jesus Dynasty, in which he intended to present the historical facts about Jesus’ family, based on the latest archaeological research and discoveries. Would I like to hear the story for a possible Temperance Brennan plot?”

It’s a fun read.

:)

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