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Israel an ancient land of endless ruins which
all have stories to tell [Music] of the many Treasures to be found among
Israel's Rich historical remains is a tomb that was Unearthed in 1980. in
talbit east of Jerusalem inside and ossuary was uncovered which
read Jesus Son of Joseph yet the tomb was considered an
insignificant find for 27 years until the emergence of a film that put
forth an exciting yet controversial Theory because the tomb contained ossuaries
that bore inscriptions closely resembling the Holy Family of the New Testament this new film suggests that the telbia
tomb is the Lost Tomb of Jesus
from approximately 20 BCE until the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE the
Jewish people observed a unique religious burial practice that was connected to their belief in physical
Resurrection when a family member died the body of
the deceased was left in the family tomb to Decay for a minimum of one year [Music]
a year later when the Flesh of the deceased had fully decayed the family would return to the tomb to gather the
bones of their loved one [Music]
foreign yet another day of mourning would occur as the bones were placed in a stone box
called an ossuary [Music]
sometimes the name of the individual was carved on the side of the ossuary for identification purposes
[Music] the lid was firmly placed on the ossuary and it was stored away in the Tomb to
await a complete Resurrection [Music]
foreign there's a tremendous amount of expansion
around Jerusalem they were constantly coming into archaeological Remains The most
significant remains were normally tombs
it all starts on the Thursday the 27th of April 1980 and they're building this
new neighborhood it's a it's connecting on to an original part of neighborhood
which had been built um five or six years beforehand Dr Shimon Gibson one of Israel's leading
archaeologists was one of the few people to enter the Tapia tomb after its discovery
its job was to survey and record the dimensions of the talbia Tomb it was a Saturday evening I got a call
from Dr Amos cloner he was a district archaeologist at the time for the
Jerusalem region and he said hey Shimon a tomb has been discovered it's being excavated by yosuke go out and help
record this interesting tomb I participate in excavation we will call to the tomb there were workers there who
are clearing out the soil within a cave which indicated to me straight away that this cave had been opened in Antiquity
otherwise you wouldn't have an accumulation of soil within the cave itself it was quite shallow in the the
kurim in these lokilai which extended off-like tunnels and in different directions from the main chamber walls
there one one could have seen those archeries on the day of the discovery and hence they were taken out first
foreign was to dig out these archeries bag them
put them into boxes and then to convey them to the Rockefeller Museum
at the time of its Discovery the talbia tomb was considered to be just one more of the many tombs that have been
Unearthed in the Jerusalem area there seemed to be nothing out of the
ordinary about it according to archaeologists it was not a significant Tomb at all
however 27 years after its Discovery the talpia tomb finally gained public
attention with the release of the film The Lost Tomb of Jesus
this film claimed to have found proof that this is the tomb and final resting place of the body of Jesus Christ and
his family what are the claims that were made in order to prove this controversial Theory
claim number one inscriptions found in the talpia Tomb seem to match the names we might expect to find in a tomb
belonging to Jesus and his family the most interesting of the names being Jesus Son of Joseph
claim number two Mary Magdalene and Jesus may have been married with a son which explains why
her ossuary might be in the Tomb along with an oshawary reading Judah son of Jesus
the Lost Tomb of Jesus film claims that DNA testing could support this
claim number three the Gable on the telpia tomb could be an early Christian symbol linked to the Tomb of the Apostle
Peter claim number four the infamous James oshawari May in fact be the missing
ossuary from the Tapia tomb because James was the brother of Jesus they claim this further proves that the
talpia tomb contains the Holy Family [Music]
if Jesus in fact was not raised then Christian faith is misguided it would
have to be seriously modified perhaps abandoned altogether the Lost Tomb of
Jesus film has caused a firestorm of controversy between the world's leading Scholars
have the bones of Jesus been Unearthed foreign we decided to look into the claims of
the Lost Tomb film and interview many of the same experts Dr James Taylor believes the talbia tomb
could be the Tomb of Jesus of Nazareth I would argue that it's uh likely from
possibly to likely of course one thing obviously it has an ossuary with
Jesus Son of Joseph where we wouldn't even be discussing so the real question is what Jesus and
can we associate other things in the Tomb with this particular cluster of names however Dr Craig Evans is one of
the many who strongly oppose the theory of the Lost Tomb of Jesus film not based
on theology or religious convictions but based on serious hard-headed scholarship
I conclude that it is highly improbable that the East albeit tomb was the tomb
of Jesus's family
the custom of preserving the bones of an individual in an ossuary was common in the time and setting of Jesus of
Nazareth but what would finding an ossuary that contained his bones mean for
Christianity I think it'd be devastating for Christianity one of the main beliefs is
that Jesus rose from the dead in bodily form and the account of Luke in Acts the
very first chapter is a view of the disciples looking up at the sky because
they just finished watching the resurrected Jesus his body Ascend into
heaven today Scholars debate whether the resurrection of Christ was spiritual or
physical in the early generation they're not looking for an empty tomb with a corpse now become
alive walking around to prove he's alive they might be talking more about the
spirit of Jesus that they're experiencing Dr James Tabor is one of the few scholars in support of the
theory that the Tapia tomb may be the Lost Tomb of Jesus he argues that it is possible that the
resurrection referred to in the gospels could simply be spiritual some Jews might believe very literally in
Resurrection literally I'm standing in a grave yard and there's hundreds of tombs and one day like a Michael Jackson video
you know they're all going to pop open in these corpses in various stages of Decay or totally Decatur going to come
up you know sort of can these bones live idea but I think others
could have a more I would say sophisticated view or even scientific view I find the suggestion that Jesus
wasn't really physically resurrected but instead he appeared to his disciples as
a ghost or a phantom or a vision or something like that I find that unconvincing Dr Craig Evans respected
author and biblical scholar does not support the idea that the talbia tomb belonged to the family of Jesus he also
feels that in the first century those who witnessed the resurrection were convinced it was a physical Resurrection
the Jewish people had plenty of traditions that could accommodate ghost stories
and so if Jesus was just a spirit that occasionally appeared to somebody and
left a comforting thought or word with with them then I think that's exactly what his followers would have believed
if the bones of Jesus of Nazareth were suddenly Unearthed the faith of professing Christians around the world
would be shaken to its very Foundation the gospel accounts of an empty tomb
would be proven false the disciples who were willing to lay
down their lives as witnesses to a resurrection would have died in vain the Apostle Paul's confidence in the
powerful resurrection of Christ would have been misplaced those Witnesses of the death
resurrection and Ascension of Jesus would have had no miraculous or good news to spread
if the bones of Jesus were discovered surely Christianity and all that it has stood for and still stands for would be
buried never to be resurrected
let me see what she says and I'll call you right back okay
well let's see what happens here
the one thing about Israel filming in Israel is Ever Changing
June of 2007 our Unearthed team set out to Israel to take a closer look at the
evidence that has led some Scholars to believe that the talbia tomb contained the bones of Jesus of Nazareth and his
family our journey of inquiry begins at the Topia tomb that was Unearthed in 1980.
today the tomb is covered by a cement box and sealed from further investigation doing well thanks for
coming out and joining us here at talpiat at the Box
epigrapher Dr Fawn one of the editors of the Dead Sea Scrolls has been an outspoken critic of the way the evidence
has been handled what we have in in front of us is a box that had to be
created over an original second temple period tomb wow that was found in the
midst of a neighborhood in the outskirts of Jerusalem that they just couldn't leave open like that all
we can do is talk about the really interesting set of ossuaries that were
found inside let's take a closer look at all the ossuaries that were found in the talbia
Tomb in the talbia Tomb ten ossuaries were discovered of the ten sixborn
inscriptions the inscriptions are [Music] Maria thought by some to be a rare
version of the name Mary connected to the mother of Jesus Yeshua bar Yosef Jesus Son of Joseph
the Lost Tomb of Jesus film suggests that this could be the Jesus of the New Testament
yosa a short form of the name Joseph and the version used to refer to the brother
of Jesus in our oldest Source the gospel of Mark IA Matthew although there is no Matthew
recorded in the immediate family of Jesus the film claims that finding this name is not completely unexpected being
that there are many Matthews in Mary's genealogy yehudu bar Yeshua Judah son of Jesus
indicating that Jesus was married and had a son mariamne kaimara
the Lost Tomb of Jesus suggests that this could be Mary Magdalene [Music]
there is a debate between Scholars as to whether or not the cluster of names found in the talbia Tomb is unique look
there is a cave in July of God Joseph Jesus the son of Joseph and you've got the Mary and you've got Matthew and
you've got everybody that the whole Holy Family Dr Dan bahat is the former Chief
archaeologist of the city of Jerusalem he is a highly respected figure in the archaeological world
we met Dr bahat near the ruins of the Jewish temple he has been familiar with the ossuaries from the telpia tomb since
her discovery most of the language of the are very very common name Jesus is very common
Joseph is common Judah is common so I won't be surprised at other cancers
occur together they don't really go for the argument that uh you know the names are common therefore it means nothing
you know the names aren't that common as people imply uh the names that were
found in the Topia tomb are common very common Jewish names in fact the uh the
names mariame and Maria are among the most common names for women perhaps as
many as 25 of all Jewish women in this time were given those names
we decide to find out just how common these names are a visit to the Israel
Antiquities Authority reveals interesting evidence as the Unearthed team investigates the hundreds of
ossuaries in their collection
in April 1980 a tomb was discovered near Jerusalem containing 10 ossuaries six of
the ossuaries were inscribed with the names of the deceased many of the names bore a striking
resemblance to the Holy Family of the New Testament
the most interesting and controversial of these ossuaries read Jesus Son of
Joseph but does this cluster of names prove
that this is the Tomb of Jesus of Nazareth and his family do these names prove anything
we decide to pay a visit to the Israel Antiquities Authority Warehouse
accompanied by Dr Stephen Fawn and forensic archaeologist Stephen Cox our
unearth team wants to see if the names found in the Tapia tomb are different from the names found on other ossuaries
in the iaa's collection Maria so it's one of the ones that they said
that how Maria is not is a rare name here's another Maria say
just right in front of us the first thing we discover once inside the IAA is
the name Maria clearly engraved on an ossuary
here's another Maria over here [Music] but here is another Maria another Maria
m-a-r-i-a-r-a-f we easily find many Maria's as we
explore the seemingly endless shells of ossuaries in the IAA we have so many Mary's here in fact here
we have uh IMA Mariam Mother Mary
it's where you have Simon this one's very clear actually in Latin letters in this case and then you have uh in the
same tomb uh another Mary mariame just like the one on our offshore in the
topic tomb this is the most common way that Mary is spelled in Greek
taking a look at the IAA catalog we discover that of the 231 inscribed
ossuaries 10 of them bear the name Maria and approximately 10 of them read Miriam
yet another rendering of the name Mary Maria was one of the most common names
in the first century but what does this prove when the Maria ossuary is placed
together with the other names in the talbia Tomb we seem to have a perfect family tree from the New Testament
family a very striking cluster of names
we now turn our attention to the name Jose is it like Maria also a common name
that name yosee or yosa it ends with the letter hey is very rare Dr Tabor is one
of the few Scholars who consider the presence of the name Jose in the Tapia tomb to be evident that the tomb
belonged to the Holy Family it's only once on any ossuary out of the hundreds of ossuaries that are inscribed
that name never occurs anywhere but this tomb however a majority of Scholars are of a
different opinion the uniqueness of of yossi the uniqueness of Maria is
actually not unique at all we find these all over the place both in Greek and Hebrew in the ossuaries that we have in
and around Jerusalem now these names are in fact common I know of at least two
dozen examples of Jose so that's not a rare form of the name in
fact looking at the IAA catalog alone we find variations of the name Joseph
including the nickname Jose 19 times it is one of the most common names found on
ossuaries from this period Jose on its own does not appear to be
enough solid evidence linking the talpia tomb to Jesus of Nazareth but what about
the combination of names the Lost Tomb of Jesus Theory claims that when applying statistics to this
group of names the probability that this is not the Tomb of the Jesus of the Bible is one in six hundred
the so-called odds of 600 to 1 in favor of identifying the East Topia tomb as
the tomb of Jesus's family don't impress me because the calculations are based on
a series of erroneous identifications and so I claim no expertise in
statistics whatsoever but in my view statistics have no validity if they're
based on mistakes we traveled to Tel Aviv University to
speak with an expert on statistics I really think
that it is not unreasonable that this is the tomb site of the New Testament
family I really think that that is a possibility and he's a very exciting
possibility Professor Camille Fox is a statistician who has carefully reviewed
the computations that have been done regarding the hypothetical Tomb of Jesus
things that they want us to mention is that the computations that have been made and it's a claim that the chances
of this not being the tomb site is one in 600 gives me big concern
the Lost Tomb of Jesus claims that when applying statistics to this cluster of names the chances are only one in 600
that the talbia tomb is not the Tomb of Jesus however many experts including Professor
Fuchs have questioned the information and the method used to arrive at this number one of the many concerns has been
how much this computation relies on the mariame ossuary being the ossuary of
Mary Magdalene to the filmmakers her presence in the Tomb could explain the presence of the ossuary which reads
Judah son of Jesus is it possible that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene was
Judah their son this is a modern fiction this is it what it is in in a word it's
poppycock it is not based on any historical evidence I would never think
it's Mary Magdalene I I would just think oh maybe it's just another Mary not the
sister not the mother it's common name maybe even if it's Jesus tomb could have had
the wife of one of his brothers could be a Mary I mean how would we know except
there's a son in the Tomb who's the son of Jesus so I'm expecting
a mother to be in that tomb who won't be related to him as sister or mother
Mary Magdalene was she closer to Jesus than the canonical gospels record
recent theories have surfaced in a large part because of films such as The Da Vinci Code and the Lost Tomb of Jesus
is there any truth in these films what do we really know about those mysterious woman from 2 000 years ago
[Music] talbia II discovered just outside of
Jerusalem revealed some amazing finds an ossuary with the inscription Jesus Son
of Joseph caught the world's attention but even more surprising was the bone box that read Judah son of Jesus if this
was the Tomb of the Jesus from the Bible could this be his son would this mean that he was married
and if so to whom recent theories have emerged suggesting that Jesus was secretly married to the
woman known as Mary Magdalene but who was Mary Magdalene and why was she so
important well Mary Magdalene was uh I think a very interesting character to be
remembered by name and to have such prominence in the story of Jesus and I
think it's because Jesus was open to having women hear his teaching Jesus in a way you might say was the first
feminist and so he allowed women to sit at his feet and hear his teaching Mary
also was a witness to the discovery of the empty tomb and saw the Risen Jesus
and so her name therefore figures prominently in early church history however there's not a shred
of historical evidence of any kind that Mary Magdalene was married to a
particular person be that Jesus or someone else
our curiosity about Mary Magdalene takes us to her ancient Hometown mgdal where
we hope to learn a little more about her since its original excavations over 30 years ago the Unearthed team is one of
the very few that have been given permission to film at that location archaeologist father Stefano De Luca
meets us here to help answer some of our questions
El Faro the information is
[Music]
as far as miriamne possibly being married to Jesus and the mother of this
child that's in the Tomb taking the tomb as a start for asking
that question I don't know of any written record that puts Jesus married to to Mary
Magdalene with a child with no historical evidence that Jesus
was ever married to anyone the filmmakers of the Lost Tomb of Jesus attempted to prove their Theory with the
use of DNA testing on the ossuaries they believed to belong to Jesus and Mary Magdalene that DNA was done and it
they're not matched uh maternally meaning they're not brother sister or she's not his mother
or related to him in that way but what it told you then is of the
three intimate Marys in Jesus life that one is not the mother or the sister
this means that this Berry should not belong in the family Tomb of Jesus unless she was married to someone in it
the Lost Tomb of Jesus film concludes that because the DNA samples from the supposed Jesus and Mary Magdalene
ossuaries prove that they did not have the same mother it is possible that they
were husband and wife this DNA test proved to be one of the
most controversial points of the entire film there's enough DNA information in a
single hair to get information that we can actually match from one individual to another
Stephen Cox is a professor at the University of the Holy Land in Israel
he is a forensic archaeologist and an expert in his field having worked for many years in crime scene investigation
for law enforcement and the U.S military he takes us back to the IAA to tell us a
bit more of what testing was done on the talbian ossuaries and what that could or could not have proven
We Know by studying ossuaries and the burial practices of this time multiple
people were put into these boxes Stephen Cox is familiar with the scientific techniques that were used he feels that
the Integrity of the scientific world has been compromised in order to promote this far-fetched notion well there is
not enough evidence to make any kind of assumption that this bone box contained
the bones of a man named Jesus of Nazareth what facts do we know well we've got a stone box it's of a period
of time we've got a description on here that says Jesus by Joseph and then
there's questions with that can we even say that the bones that were recovered from this box is the person that was
originally put into this box no can we say that the bones in here or
even animal or human the testing was not done for that there could have been multiple people could have been male or
female it could have been animal and human it could have been mixed animal inhuman So based on all of that there is
no way that anybody could actually come and say that the material that was recovered here biological material the
bones that were recovered from here is the person that's on this and then to make the jump that this name
and this material in here is the one and only Jesus of Nazareth is a huge jumping
logic huge jumping watching can't be done in fact although only 10 ossuaries were
found in the talbia Tomb it has been verified that the tomb contained the skeletons of approximately 35 different
individuals as many as four different Generations could have had their DNA in
any of the 10 ossuaries this makes it impossible to know for
certain who the DNA belonged to adding to the controversy Stephen Cox
appeared in the film The Lost Tomb of Jesus and was portrayed collecting the DNA
samples for testing he feels he was misrepresented I was upset with it with my portrayal in the
documentary speaking specifically there in the fact that I was asked to come in and view the material in these Oscars
and the only two of the many Oscars that we see sitting here really had material that was recoverable
there was material in the James this so-called Jesus Joshua excuse me there
was material in this so-called maryamne ossuary and I did recover it and I preserved it for future testing but I
did not send it to the DNA lab in in Canada the mariamne ossuary becomes even more
controversial as we look at the inscription what does it really say
the film The Lost Tomb of Jesus gained public attention with its suggestion that a tomb near Jerusalem may have
belonged to Jesus of Nazareth and his family yet some of the most controversial material in this film had
to do with an ossuary that some believe belongs to the biblical character Mary Magdalene suggestions that Jesus and
Mary Magdalene were married and had a son have outraged many Christians DNA
testing that attempted to prove this theory has drawn severe criticism from many in the scientific Community but
what makes the filmmakers believe that this ossuary belonged to Mary Magdalene in the first place the name is very
curious mariamne is used in some later second third fourth Century texts
for Mary Magdalene as opposed to Maria which is the other form
Dr Tabor believes the inscription reads maryamne kaimara meaning Mary the master
or lady could this be Mary Magdalene first of all you have to accept
is indeed Mary Magdalene but first you've got to sort of accept that this
is mariamna not Mariam that alternative views as to the reading of that
inscription foreign [Music]
takes us to a cold oblique to meet another experienced epigrapher
we asked Dr Emil plus to read the inscription on the ossuary which some believe contained the bones of Mary
Magdalene set up over here yeah as an epigrapher what do you see what do
you what do you think this is here what I see is captioning Greek inclusive
Greek by on a soft chalk the stone
not very well done but normal in the in that period you have two names
how sure are you are you 10 sure that's two names 100 sure
Dr Price is convinced that there are two names on this ossuary Maria May and Mara
Miriam May being a very common form of the name Mary and if if
Ishmael is masculine his wife and husband he also tells us that Mara could
be either a man or a woman meaning if this form of Mara is masculine then this
mariame is most likely buried with her husband this reading of the inscription appears to leave little hope that this
is the ossuary of the famed Mary Magdalene the Lost Tomb of Jesus film also
presents a conspiracy type theory of the ten ossuaries recorded during the tombs
excavation only nine have been located in the possession of the IAA what
happened to the 10th missing ossuary there are suggestions which will be made that the James Ashley might have come
from this tomb I doubt it the James ossuary
is another mystery this ossuary appeared on the archeology scene a few years ago
with the inscription James son of Joseph brother of Jesus since its initial appearance it has
caused much speculation as to its own authenticity yet the Lost Tomb of Jesus
film claims that this could be the missing ossuary from the Tapia tomb adding this inscription to the others of
the Tapia tomb appears to increase the odds that this is the family Tomb of Jesus
the tool that was used here to try and bring the James ossuary into this
cluster of ossuaries was the use of patina Stephen Cox explains that the way the
patina was collected from the James ossuary could not have been helpful in this investigation they believed that if
we could take patina from the James ossuary and match it to the patina from here and it was a match that came from
the same tomb well there's a lot of problems with it scientifically one patina does not have
that kind of fingerprint quality to give us unique comparisons to be able to say
that it came from that environment to the exclusion of all other environments in addition to this the missing ossuary
was reported unimportant and uninscribed according to those who were carefully documenting the telpia Doom excavations
believe that the James oshwari most certainly is not from the Topia tomb why because it was discovered and in
circulation years before the Topia tomb was discovered in 1980. there is a
photograph dated since 1976 of the James ashware which is confirmed by an FBI lab
analysis but also because further analysis of the James oshwari by
geochemists indicate that the James oshware actually had been in circulation
exposed to sunlight outside of a cave environment for perhaps a hundred years
or longer the telpia tomb appears to be shrouded with Mysteries and riddles
one of the more obvious and visible one is the strange symbol that appears over the door
this Chevron and circle appeared to represent something but what the Lost Tomb of Jesus film has an
incredible Theory could this be an ancient Christian symbol while investigating this the filmmakers
stumble across a first century Tomb at Dominus flevitt traditionally this is
where Jesus stopped and wept over Jerusalem on his journey to keep the Jewish Passover feast and ultimately be
crucified the film suggests that this tomb is part of a chain of ancient Christian tombs an ossuary that appears
to confirm this is from this tomb and is thought to be the ossuary of Simon barjona also known as the Apostle Peter
however not everyone believes that this ossuary really belongs to the famous apostle
Dr Emil puesh has been studying ancient writing for 40 years and is one of the
world's leading experts in epigraphy here is a very important
inscription on an ossuary from Dominus flevitt I know okay this
has been translated by by everybody as in English Simon barjona what happened
[Music]
because we know is very short this is and this is an aleph
he tells us that this is not the ossuary of Simon Peter but if someone named
Simon barzilla Simon son of zela although this is not the ossuary of
Peter it did come from the tomb of Dominus flevin where an ancient engraving appears on an ossuary that
resembles the facade above the talbia tomb
could this engraving be an early Christian symbol and does this prove further that the
talpia tomb is the Tomb of Jesus
the talpia tomb was discovered in 1980. Shimon Gibson was a young archaeologist
who was sent to help excavate and document this tomb when he noticed the strange symbols above the door when I
first approached the tomb I noticed these decorations of Adventures now you've got to remember that I was a
young student of archeology at that time just barely sorted out my my teens and
so it was all new and very interesting and famous to us at the time
the Chevron and circle that adorned this fascinating tomb have recently been linked to an ossuary found in a tomb of
Dominus Fleming this ossuary has an engraving that appears to match the facade at the tomb Intel pit and is
thought by some to be an early Christian symbol the film The Lost Tomb of Jesus first
made this connection as they investigated the idea that the Tapia tomb could be the Tomb of Jesus and his
family [Music] Dr Stephen Fawn brought us to the
Dominus flevitt tomb to show us this very ossuary and explain something that he noticed from the Lost Tomb film
after we saw the film we came in and just said you know it's amazing that there's a actual Chevron on the side of
one of these oshories and so when we came in we looked for this oshoy without
the the lid on it and with the symbol on the side
and the producer who was with us at the time pointed out well there it is up there now I looked up and said but
there's a lid on it and oh that doesn't have this Mark on the lid
well you know I would hope that if this was a stonemason's mark
that maybe it would be on the lid as well and I looked and I said well look
on the other side and see if there's a symbol like that and he says yeah sure enough
there it is I said well why don't you pick it up and turn it around so you take the thing and very carefully turn
it around like so
and voila it's exactly the same as the one above so that point we realized that
this went from being a very important religious symbol to being simply a stone
Mason's Mark like all the others that we've seen here Mason marks were extremely common during
the use of ossuaries they simply demonstrate which way a lid is to be placed on the ossuary it has been made
to fit in fact during our time at the IAA
Warehouse we found many examples of Mason marks on ossuaries it becomes clear to us that the Mason
marks at Dominus Levitt are most likely not early Christian symbols at all but
what about the talbia tomb Shimon Gibson explains that although he
was mystified by the Tapia tomb's facade when he first saw it in his youth since then he has noticed many other tombs
with a similar motif you have a connoissota repetition of
certain motifs one of them is the Gable so you have this kind of Chevron
sometimes they have and if you look at the the one in the from the Tapia tomb it's up a part it doesn't end in in a
point of the triangle but actually curves around and that is because it's supposed to represent
um sometimes it's a burial um or some kind of motif which is at the the angles
of the the pediment or the Gable taking a closer look at the original sketches
of the Tapia tomb we discover that its facade is different from the mark that was founded Dominus flevitt we also
learned that this Motif was a common artistic design in the first century
with very little evidence left supporting the Lost Tomb of Jesus Theory we come full circle and decide to take a
closer look at the inscriptions that started it all [Music]
the inscription that has been the Catalyst for convincing some that the talbia tomb is the family Tomb of Jesus
the name which in this context seems to say that Jesus really did not rise from
the dead the name Yeshua bar Yosef Jesus Son of Joseph the most important ossuary
in the this collection of the this talpio tomb was an oshawari that that
reads at least on the surface Yeshua bariosev Jesus Son of Joseph
however this one is not so straightforward the original report records the name
Yeshua followed by a question mark it is far from certain that the ossuary
says Yeshua or Jesus at all many people are reading this as Yeshua
bar or Ben Yosef Jesus Son of Joseph again as an epigrapher is that really
clear to you about yourself is clear maybe Yeshua
maybe you should but no more than that whether it matters to me personally uh if this tomb is or is not the Tomb of
Jesus I think I would say yes and no I want the truth so if it isn't the Tomb
of Jesus I want to know it and certainly we never want to argue something that has been disproven based on everything
we know based on good scholarship proper archeology study of the inscriptions
study of Jewish burial Traditions based on everything that credible trained
recognized Scholars know I believe that the talpia tomb is not
the Tomb of Jesus and his family it is highly improbable that it was the tomb
of jesusness family there's a story to tell there we can't from this though
tell the story of Jesus of Nazareth and his family
with two thousand years between us and the family who own the tomb of Talbot little can be known for certain about
them if they were not the Holy Family did they know Jesus of Nazareth did they
brush shoulders with him at Jewish festivals or listened to any of his inspiring teachings the true story about
the family of talbiot remains a mystery the Tapia tomb is at the very least one
more fascinating remnant of Jewish history which continues to be Unearthed in
Israel's ancient soil