Today on Talpiot

In The Aramaic Blog , Steve Caruso has an update on the reading of the "Jesus, son of Joseph" inscription on one of the ossuaries ...

Talpiot Tomb Various

There are several additional things that are worth mentioning on the Talpiot tomb story from recent days. Randy Ingermanson has uploaded a ...

SBL Forum: Tomb Latest

I was away during the latter part of last week so haven't blogged for a little. It's good to see on my return that François Bovon h...

Further Updates to Discovery Tomb Website

On Friday, Joe D'Mello noted changes made on the Discovery Lost Tomb of Jesus website with respect to the statistical case. The site ...

How to decipher the Yeshua` inscription

Further to my post the other day on Talpiot Tomb: Does is say Jesus? , I am grateful to James Tabor for sending over this PDF, which nicely ...

Talpiot Tomb: Does it Say Jesus?

I've had a few days off from the tomb, so now it's back to business. One of the question marks over the Talpiot tomb ossuaries rela...

Discovery Website Adjusts Tomb Claims

Joe D'Mello emails me with the following (see previous posts in this thread ): ----------- I just checked the Discovery Channel website ...

Talpiot Tomb Statistics Update

Jack Poirier's article, which I mentioned the other day, on the Statistics behind the "Jesus Family Tomb", is now available a...

Mariamene and Martha, Stephen Pfann

I mentioned earlier ( Talpiot Tomb Various ) Stephen Pfann's new reading of the "Mariamenou Mara" ossuary. He has published h...

Talpiot Tomb Various

I must admit that I thought interest in the Talpiot tomb would quickly die away, but I was wrong. Recent developments of interest include ...

Correction on Discovery Tomb Website

Thanks to Joe D'Mello (see previous posts in the "Jesus Family Tomb" Statistics series) for this update concerning the Discov...

Jesus Family Tomb Website: Errors and Inaccuracies

I have spent some time on the Jesus Family Tomb Website over the last week or so while blogging reactions to the documentary that aired thi...

Mariamne, Mary Magdalene and Mary of Bethany

One of the key claims made in the recent documentary on the "Jesus Family Tomb" is that the ossuary inscription "Mariamenou M...

James Charlesworth on the "Jesus Family Tomb": follow-up

It is sometimes said that there are no academics who think that the Talpiot tomb might be identified with Jesus' family tomb. I noted l...

Adjustments to Discovery Website Statistics Claims

Regular readers will remember that I have reproduced a couple of posts on the statistical claims of the Discovery documentary on the "J...

The "Jesus Family Tomb": Amy-Jill Levine comments

On the Discovery: Lost Tomb of Jesus Discussion Forum , Amy-Jill Levine now responds to several of those who have posed their questions on t...

The Numbers Guy on the Talpiot Tomb Calculations

There is an article in this morning's Wall Street Journal Online on the "Jesus' Family Tomb" documentary (thanks to Steph...

Talpiot Tomb: Assorted Thoughts

In no particular order, I want to tie up some loose ends and air some niggles about the "Jesus Family Tomb" claims. On the questio...

Peer review and the tomb

I am not yet convinced by one element in the scholarly reaction to the "Jesus Family Tomb", the claim that the case should have be...

"Jesus Family Tomb": Any further thoughts?

I don't have a lot left to say about The Lost Tomb of Jesus documentary which aired in the USA on Sunday night. I didn't get any t...