Never mind.
Does anyone remember the film Lost Tomb of Jesus made by director James Cameron that came out a few months back? Well, there's some news about the claims made in that film:
Several prominent scholars who were interviewed in a bitterly contested documentary that suggests that Jesus and his family members were buried in a nondescript ancient Jerusalem burial cave have now revised their conclusions, including the statistician who claimed that the odds were 600:1 in favor of the tomb being the family burial cave of Jesus of Nazareth, a new study on the fallout from the popular documentary shows.Really! "Revised their conclusions" did they?
"Personally, I'm skeptical that this is the tomb of Jesus and I made this point very clear to the filmmakers," Gibson is quoted as saying.They need "more evidence" before they can say that the Talpiot tomb "might be" the tomb of Jesus? Seems like Mr. Cameron and the prominent scholars he used in the movie (et al) are having an Emily Litella moment."We need much more evidence before we can say that the Talpiot tomb might be the family tomb of Jesus," he added.
In the film, renowned epigrapher Prof. Frank Moore Cross, professor emeritus of Hebrew and oriental languages at Harvard University, is seen reading one of the ossuaries and stating that he has "no real doubt" that it reads "Jesus son of Joseph." But according to Pfann, Cross said in an e-mail that he was skeptical about the film's claims, not because of a misreading of the ossuary, but because of the ubiquity of Biblical names in that period in Jerusalem.
"It has been reckoned that 25 percent of feminine names in this period were Maria/Miriam, etc. - that is, variants of 'Mary.' So the cited statistics are unpersuasive. You know the saying: lies, damned lies, and statistics," Cross is quoted as saying.
Que Emily: "So the tomb in this movie was of someone named Jesus and his wife Mary, and their son... but there were hundreds, maybe even thousands of men named Jesus back then, and 1/4 of all the women at the time were named some variation of Mary? So the claims of this being THE Jesus' tomb are dubious at best?! Oh, that's quite different... Never mind."
No need to wonder if news of these revisions will make it into the ODM (Old Dead Media). We are all too familiar with the script by now... fake, but accurate! They'll publish the fake and ignore the accurate.
