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Niin, mutta minkä Jeesuksen? Discovery Channel on päättänyt toimia varsin danbrownilaisittain ja rahastaa jälleen kerran Jeesus-tarinalla… totuudenmukaisuuden puutteesta huolimatta. Valtamedia on ilmeisesti tehnyt vankan päätöksen keskittyä rahantekoon hinnalla millä hyvänsä. Tämä äsken julkaistu James Cameronin ohjaama ‘Lost tomb of Jesus’ näyttää jo sen verran lapselliselta, että oikeastaan ihmetyttää. Herra Cameronin on täytynyt olla todellisessa rahan tarpeessa

 Saatan kirjoittaa tästä lisää, nyt koko juttu tuntuu liian huvittavalta innostuakseni kommentoimaan. Lisätietoja löytyy esim. The Washington Postin artikkelista (The Washington Post, 28.2.2007: ‘Lost Tomb of Jesus’ Claim Called a Stunt – Archaeologists Decry TV Film).

Filmistä sanottu: 

I’m not a Christian. I’m not a believer. I don’t have a dog in this fight. I just think it’s a shame the way this story is being hyped and manipulated -  William G. Dever, who has been excavating ancient sites in Israel for 50 years and is widely considered the dean of biblical archaeology among U.S. scholars.

I’ve know about these ossuaries for many years and so have many other archaeologists, and none of us thought it was much of a story, because these are rather common Jewish names from that period. It’s a publicity stunt, and it will make these guys very rich, and it will upset millions of innocent people because they don’t know enough to separate fact from fiction – Prof. Dever, retired professor of archaeology at the University of Arizona.

The documentary is nonsense – Israeli scholar Amos Kloner, who originally excavated the tomb, in an interview to Jerusalem Post.

Hyped up film which is intellectually and scientifically dishonest – Joe Zias, former curator of archaeology at the Israeli Antiquities Authority.

Filmmakers have set it up as if it’s a legitimate academic debate, when the vast majority of scholars who specialize in archaeology of this period have flatly rejected this. This whole case [for the tomb of Jesus] is flawed from beginning to end – Jodi Magness, an archaeologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.