The screening this weekend of a Discovery Channel special in which celebrated film director James Cameron purports to reveal the lost tomb of Jesus Christ was the subject of a predictable explosion of comment in the USA. More surprisingly, the accusations of heresy from the religious right were drowned out by accusations of inadequate archaeological rigour and general dullness from more secular commentators.In a year when Cameron is currently preparing two of the biggest-budget science-fiction epics ever filmed which will rely for their success upon impressive box-office receipts from the religiously-devout American public, addressing such controversial subject matter is a distinctly temerarious venture and one which he may come to regret.
Source: entertainment.timesonline.co.uk
Clerical whispers reports religious indignation in Africa, although deflates its own authority a little by referring to Dan Brown, author of the DaVinci Code, as ‘James Brown’: “'These people are full of imaginations, prejudice and are fools' said an angry Ndingi. This revelation comes barely a year after another movie personality made almost similar claims. James Brown, in his movie, the Da Vinci Code, claimed that Mary Magdalene was Jesus’s wife"
Source: entertainment.timesonline.co.uk
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Lying about the name Jesus, for profit, yet again...
Hello Poetro and all,
The most interesting aspect of this Jesus Tomb story revolves around the actual names on the bone boxes compared to what is being asserted in the effort to make a profit. Pay special attention to the tortured explanations of how names like Jesus, Mary, Matthew, Joseph, and others were "translated" (interpolated) from inscriptions that actually say otherwise. Most specifically, both Christians and those who are promoting this "Jesus Tomb" discovery and its associated assertions are profiting from the very same long-term process of obfuscation and meticulous misdirection. For anyone, whether Christian leaders and adherents or James Cameron to keep a straight face while claiming that the name Jesus was one of the most common in Second Temple Israel is highly instructive. The name that is commonly translated as Joshua was very common, but the name Jesus is a very unique and narrowly targeted construction of recent centuries that simply cannot have truthfully appeared anywhere in the ancient Near East. Likewise, many are writing that Jesus is instead the english form of Joshua, as if the millions of english speaking Christians and Jews named Joshua have foreign names. Furthermore, does anyone know of any person named Joshua who would seriously assert that the English form of their name is Jesus? These deceptive assertions are beyond absurd.
This long-term charade about a name that simply could not have been written or pronounced in Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek, or even Latin, which is now being touted as one of the more common names from ancient Israel/Judea, serves as an illuminating microcosm for the entire New Testament and the many dubious assertions and activities that have accompanied it and Christianity throughout their entire existence. As Christians rally to "prove" that this archeological find can't be the tomb and bones of the "Jesus" and "Mary" of the New Testament, they too should honestly answer questions about why it is correct to interpolate those names in such a unique way to support the veracity of the most profitable story in history, but not to interpret an archeological discovery. Christians must truthfully answer the question of why it is wrong for the "Jesus Tomb" crew to use Christianity's own methodology to arrive at the names now being asserted as appearing on those bone boxes.
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