Coming soon is a movie based on finding of a tomb in Jerusalem that some say contains the remains of Jesus and his family . Most religious scholars don't think much of it , saying it is just another DaVinci Code type story , dressed up to make money with a movie .
"The Lost Tomb of Christ" will air March 4 on the Discovery Channel. It argues that 10 ancient ossuaries - small caskets used to store bones - discovered in a suburb of Jerusalem in 1980 may have contained the bones of Jesus and his family, according to a press release issued by the Discovery Channel.
I can not vouch for the truth of this story , but am curious about the thoughts of CV members on the subject . What do you think ? I will watch it if possible .
"Most Christians believe Jesus' body spent three days at the site of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem's Old City. The burial site identified in Cameron's documentary is in a southern Jerusalem neighborhood nowhere near the church.
In 1996, when the BBC aired a short documentary on the same subject, archaeologists challenged the claims. Amos Kloner, the first archaeologist to examine the site, said the idea fails to hold up by archaeological standards but makes for profitable television."
Stephen Pfann, a biblical scholar at the University of the Holy Land in Jerusalem who was interviewed in the documentary, said the film's hypothesis holds little weight.
"I don't think that Christians are going to buy into this," Pfann said. "But skeptics, in general, would like to see something that pokes holes into the story that so many people hold dear."
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