The blogosphere is already heating up with responses from scholars to the new “discoveries” of $imcha Jacobovici and James Tabor. Those interested can keep up with the responses of professional scholars via the ASOR blog, which seems poised to become a clearing house of sorts for this topic (ASOR = American Schools of Oriental Research, a scholarly society focusing on archaeology, epigraphy, biblical studies, and the ancient Near East). Here are some posts already on the site:
Eric Meyers’ review of “The New Jesus Discovery”
- Eric Meyers is an archaeologist at Duke University
Brief Reflections of an Epigrapher on Talpiyot Tombs A and B
- This post is by Christopher Rollston, a specialist in Northwest Semitic epigraphy (inscriptions). Since this latest Jacobovici and Tabor effort goes back to the Jesus Family Tomb, building on that monument to the non sequitur, Rollston revisits the inscriptional material of that tomb.
And other posts by scholars from other blogs:
Robert Cargill
Antonio Lombatti (on the “Jonah and the whale” image in this new tomb)
Jim West
This was sent earlier this evening to the ASOR Blog, and will, likely, be rejected. Shalom & Erev tov…the quackery of Mr Tabor and his cohorts continues. As a Torah Jew, who has studied the Hebrew and koine Greek sources for 50 years, allow me to point out to him a few factualities. ‘Yeshua benMiriam’ was the fabrication of a Graeco-Roman-Egyptian revelatory death cult. There was no parthenogensis, no discipleship, no ‘passion’, no ‘empty tomb’, and no ‘resurrection’. The koine Greek forgeries (the ‘new testament’) date from the late 2nd century CE/early 3rd century CE, and ‘Paul’ was more than likely the creation of those around Marcion. From the 1st century CE-3rd century CE, there is a deafening silence, because the koine Greek forgeries (the ‘new testament’) did not exist (and, please, don’t insult me if you want to discuss the church’s forgeries of passages Josephus did NOT write). From the 3rd century CE to date, we have seen hoaxes, forgeries…and a relentless exterminationist paradigm leading to the gates of Auschwitz, whose stench and smoke hang over Mr Tabor’s ‘empty tomb’. There is no ‘basic research’, Mr Tabor, and you and Simcha Jacobovici are profoundly mistaken. Why? Because, as a 21st century CE Jew, I am a living, breathing reminder crucifictionism (including you) have never had a covenant, that all of your ‘basic research’ is a reprehensible phantasy. You owe genuine scholars an apology with your ‘Talpiot Jesus’ tomb. STEPHAN PICKERING / Chofetz Chayim benAvraham
yep; it’ll be censored, but only because it’s wacky. I allow it so people can see the wackiness. (But the other two times you posted the same comment have been deleted).
Shalom & Erev tov, Michael…at least my ‘wackiness’ can be buttressed with scholarship (English, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek)…and the Talmud. Kol tuv uv’racha…may you and your family be blessed with all that is good.
it’s you (and Robert Price) against the entirety of biblical scholarship. Not good odds. This has nothing to do with languages.
Shalom & Boker tov, Michael…’biblical scholarship”? I am not speaking of the 3rd century koine Greek forgeries. Robert Price is useful. Of more cogent applicability (as I can read the original textual forgeries in their own languages) is the ongoing work of Earl Doherty on crucifictionism. If you wish to explicate Torah scholarship — which has nothing to do with your ‘new testament’ and its Jew hating idolatries — then do so…but, please, Michael, have the courtesy to Jews of providing exact Hebrew citations. If you wish to discuss crucifictionism, and the contortionist ‘biblical scholarship’ it entails, this is your choice. But, as I said in my original post here, there is NO proof to validate a revelatory death-cult phantasy. You may WANT ‘Yeshua benMiriam’ to be an actuality…but, what you seem unable to do, is make the connexions between the phantasies and the Shoah…and the Shoah disproves your hypotheses.
basically what I’m saying is that your claims about the NT are detached from text-critical scholarship.
I think “wacky” is being a bit generous 🙂
Shalom & Boker tov…I’m quite sure that Michael has better things to do than, somehow, take a paper towel to clean your unnecessary stain on silence and no-thing-ness. Considering your Jew-baiting, my own feeling is that the discussion of texts with you stops prudently before their parallelism becomes close enough to yield logical and probable conclusions. If you have evidentiary. actual 1st century CE texts to introduce, then please do so….ah, I thought not. You, Josh, are hardly in an ethical position to lecture a Torah Jew about our histories.
My Jew baiting? The fact that your posts reveal a disordered mind which has broken with reality has nothing to do with Jewishness, or with my thoughts or feelings about Jews.
In fact, though I don’t know you, I just have this feeling that you probably aren’t even actually Jewish. I am get the feeling that you are actually more of a pagan new age type who picked up some Jewish mysticism along the way and merged it with goddess worship or something like that.
I, of course, don’t want to assume… so let me ask.. are you in fact Jewish?
Yes.
@ nancygene
yep you are right, after I googled” Stephan Pickering/Chofetz Chayim ben-Avraham”, I came up with a long list
of post – often copies of his first post on this thread..
what a waste of human intelligence due to illicit or non -illicit drugs..