The Body of Christ

February 25, 2007 11:12 PM

The bones of Jesus Christ have been discovered and subjected to DNA testing. So argues a documentary by James Cameron entitled "The Lost Tomb of Jesus," soon to be broadcast on the Discovery Channel. The film cites academic researchers to defend the claim that a group of limestone ossuaries excavated from a tomb discovered in 1980 in Taipot, Israel may have contained the remains of Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and their son Judah. Some feel that the controversial ossuary sometimes supposed to have once held the bones of a brother to Jesus, may also have come from this site (The purported ossuary of James has been discussed here before). Are the contents of the Taipot tomb most likely there by coincidence or forgery? Or might they in fact be surviving vestiges of the Christian Messiah and his family? What would it matter, one way or another?
posted by washburn (6 comments total)

uhm...yeah
posted by GavinR at 11:15 PM on February 25, 2007

Are the contents of the Taipot tomb most likely there by coincidence or forgery? Or might they in fact be surviving vestiges of the Christian Messiah and his family? What would it matter, one way or another?

I dunno... let's ask the previous thread.
posted by wfrgms at 11:16 PM on February 25, 2007

oops
Thanks for ruining Easter, Philistine.
posted by obloquy at 11:16 PM on February 25, 2007

Whoops. Thought I had a good one there.
posted by washburn at 11:19 PM on February 25, 2007

I am giving up thinking of other people, you know, for lent.
posted by Samuel Farrow at 11:25 PM on February 25, 2007

But will they blend?
posted by ontic at 11:27 PM on February 25, 2007