Jesus resurrection site found in Jerusalem before Easter

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Last year, browsing a site , i read that soon some archeo discoveries of «fake religious antiques » would start making headlines in the medias, with the purpose of legitimizing future political actions.

---it seems it is beginning....Just take a look !

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Jesus resurrection site found in Jerusalem before Easter
From: CNTV　Writer: 　Date:2012-4-9 14:41:00

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It’s a couple of days away before Christianity's most important holiday, Easter which falls on Sunday. Researchers say a new finding buried beneath a Jerusalem apartment building may point to the earliest signs of Christianity. But as our Middle East correspondent Stephanie Freid reports, the finding is not without dispute.

There’s a running joke among archaeologists: Dig below the surface anywhere in Jerusalem and you’ll find an ancient artifact.

A team of historians and film-makers went way below the surface in Jerusalem and they now say they’ve got the earliest proof ever found of Christianity.

Using camera manned robotic probes they went through the basement floor of an apartment building where they found ossuaries or ancient boxes used for bone burial they say point to proof of Jesus’ earliest followers

Stephanie Freid, Jerusalem, reports, “Archaeologists generally disagree over whether or nt evidence referring to Jesus or his followers - evidence like texts, artifacts and drawings exists today. The team behind this finding say they’ve got new evidence”

The researchers say the proof is in the markings on the ossuaries recreated here

Simcha Jacobovici, Filmmaker, said, “There’s a cross there. There are little fishes going all around. There’s an inscription there for heaven’s sake. There’s an inscription that mentions the holy god - the name of god on something it shouldn’t be on, sth related to death”

But whether those symbols point to early Christianity is a subject that’s up for debate.

The same filmmaker has discovered a disputed Jesus family tomb five years ago adjacent to the most recent find. A film highlighting the discoveries will air later this month.

Antiquity authority officials declined comment on the finding or its linkage to early Christianity.

But those behind the finding are daring to speculate.

Professor James D. Tabor, Dept. of Religious Studies of North Carolina University, said, “Could early Christians come right here if we’re right about this - could they come here and say: ‘The Lord has lifted him up’ and yet honor a family tomb? That’s the question”

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Documentary filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici and Professor James D. Tabor stand beside a life-size replica of one of the ossuaries found in "Patio Tomb"
by Reid Singer
Published: April 11, 2012

In the past, crusading documentary filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici has gained international attention — and more than a little ire — for archeological projects that resemble a Dan Brown novel come to life. Working alongside Dr. James D. Tabor, a professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Jacobivici now says he's located a tomb in Jerusalem's Old City whose inscriptions suggest the earliest known reference to Jesus's resurrection. At stake in their argument is a decoration on an ossuary from the 1st century CE, a concave, hourglass-shaped engraving that they say resembles a fish. Citing the story of Jonah and the Whale, which Christians believe to have been a harbinger of Jesus's rising from the grave, Tabor and Jacobovici assert that they have found the earliest known symbol of the Resurrection.

It doesn't hurt that the fish symbol is a well-known contemporary icon in Christian faith. Several of Jesus's Apostles were fishermen, and the miracle of the loaves and fishes is featured in all four canonical Gospels. As students of Medieval archeology know, the very word "icthys" ("fish" in Greek) is an acronym for the phrase "Iesous Christos, Theou Yios, Soter" ("Jesus Christ, God's Son, Savior"), a frequent inscription on early Christian burial sites. Without committing to what their findings meant, Tabor and Jacobovici insist that there is more than enough evidence to open a serious debate.

Few experts outside of their circle agree. Describing the claims as "sensational," critics point to a pair of loops that appear on either side of the crucial engraving on the ossuary, arguing that the drawing of a fish could just as easily be something else. "When is a fish not a fish? When it has handles, matching handles," Mark Goodacre, an associate professor of religious studies at Duke University, told ABC News. "It's a vessel. It's a vase. It's a vase that looks like many of the ones that you'll find in the early Roman period."

Five years ago, Jacobovici garnered a similar reaction for his film "The Lost Tomb of Jesus," in which he claimed to have located a tomb that once contained the remains of Jesus of Nazareth and his family. The tomb happens to be throwing distance from his more recent discovery. The involvement of "Terminator" director James Cameron as executive producer raised the movie's profile, but observant Christians were offended by the suggestion that Jesus had married, and detractors in the academic community weren't hard to find. Lawrence E. Stager, the Dorot professor of archaeology of Israel at Harvard, described the project as "fantastic archaeology."

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Archaeologists working in Jerusalem claim that a discovery they made inside a burial tomb, dating back to the time of Jesus Christ, could shed new light on the origins of Christianity.

Biblical historian James Tabor, professor and chair of religious studies at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte, is working with the team, led by controversial filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici. Using a camera mounted on a robotic arm, the team found a 2,000-year-old engraving, which they claim depicts Jesus' resurrection, on an ossuary -- a limestone burial box that contains human bones -- in a first-century tomb.

Their exploration of ancient life in the holy land is told in a new documentary for the Discovery Channel called "The Resurrection Tomb Mystery," which premieres on April 12 at 10 p.m. ET/PT.

"It's almost like a moonscape feeling of something eerie, something kind of silent- a reverent feeling really," Tabor said. "Because these people died 2,000 years ago and now we are investigating their last memories, how they bury their dead, what they left behind, so that was there and then the excitement of, 'Well will there be something we'll find or will we find just another Jewish tomb'?"
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But the team thinks they found something much more than that. Tabor believes the engraving found on the ossuary depicts the Biblical story of Jonah, who was swallowed by a whale in the Book of Jonah.

For many Christians, the Old Testament story of Jonah and the whale has come to symbolize the resurrection of Jesus. If the engraving is of Jonah, as Tabor believes, he said it would be the earliest Christian symbol of resurrection ever found.

However, many biblical scholars don't see it that way at all.

Mark Goodacre, an associate professor of religious studies at Duke University, who specializes in the New Testament, says there are other, far more likely, explanations as to what the engraving could be, such as a vase with handles.

"When is a fish not a fish? When it has handles, matching handles," he said. "It's a vessel. It's a vase. It's a vase that looks like many of the ones that you'll find in the early Roman period."

Yet Jacobovici and his colleagues believe that ancient Greek letters found on another ossuary a few feet away from the engraving also refer to resurrection.

"Now whether they were saying he rose or we will rise, we can argue about it, but the finds themselves are hard archaeology that show, you know, new light, shed new light on the big bang of Christianity," Jacobovici said.

But again, religious scholars say it is more like a big bust.

"He's seeing things that simply aren't there," Goodacre said. "His head is so full of 'DaVinci Code.'"