This paper is first in a series of presentations adapted from the Southeastern Regional Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Schools of Oriental Research, March 16, 2013 on The Jesus Discovery: The New Archaeological Find that Reveals the Birth of Christianity (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012).
See Also: Chris Rollston, George Washington University, The Talpiyot Tombs: Some Sober Reflections on the Epigraphic Materials
Mark Goodacre, Duke University, The Jesus Discovery? A Skeptic’s Perspective
By James Tabor
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
April 2013
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Comments (2)
Thanks, James. Somehow the entire affair of the Talpiot Tombs a and b becomes an issue worthy of its own historical records. Putting things in the proper chronological order adds a lot to the core ideas and stands. And thanks for supplying the materials which are out of my own field.
#1 - Eldad Keynan - 04/27/2013 - 12:55
This article is, not surprisingly, mostly reiteration, but page 19 has some news: "Beyond posts and comments on various blogs and web sites the only two peer-reviewed
published articles I have seen dealing with our iconic image are by Prof. Peter Lampe and Prof.
William Tabbernee respectively,
both of whom support
our “Jonah” interpretation.34"
I will be interested to read those. I can understand why blog comments were excluded, so Prof. Robin Jensen's comments can be bypassed. Even though, in a manner of speaking, she once swallowed the Jonah identification, and later spat it out.
#2 - Stephen Goranson - 05/01/2013 - 08:00