Charlesworth on the Talpiot Tomb Symposium

James Charlesworth has a strongly worded statement on the recent Jerusalem Symposium that focused on the Talpiot Tomb. It's on the late...

Simcha Jacobovici Responds to His Critics

Last week I posted here a statement signed by several participants at a recent conference in Jerusalem on the Talpiot Tomb, The Talpiot Tomb...

The Talpiot Tomb Controversy Revisited

The folllowing statement, which also appears on the Duke University Religion Department Blog , is posted here at the request of my colleague...

Talpiot Tomb Statistics Article

Thanks to Mark Elliott, formerly of BibleInterp.com (now that was a great site!), for alerting me to the new article he has co-authored wit...

Dominus Flevit Ossuaries

Antonio Lombatti emails: After the documentary The Lost Tomb of Jesus, many foreign scholars asked me about the ossuaries of the Dominus Fle...

Duke Religion Blog: Eric Meyers on the Talpiot Tomb

Our Duke Religion Blog is steadily getting going, and the latest post is from Eric Meyers, offering a previously unpublished piece on his t...

New article on the Talpiot Tomb

Over on Deinde , Danny Zacharias draws attention to this new article on the Biblical Archaeology Society website: The Tomb of Jesus? Wrong ...

Stephen Goranson on the Jesus Family Tomb

Stephen Goranson sent an interesting review of The Jesus Family Tomb to ANE and Xtalk yesterday and I reproduce a cleaned up version, with ...

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...