Saturday, March 22, 2008

THE TALPIOT TOMB documentary and Princeton seminar and their aftermath are treated by Thomas F. Madden in The National Review. Not surprisingly, the coverage by the mainstream media does not come out looking well, although to be fair it's not entirely true that not "much of anyone" argues for a connection between the tomb and Jesus. Biblical scholar James Tabor has gone on record as thinking it "possible to likely" that it is the Jesus family tomb. But it's clear that the vast majority of the attenders and, apparently, all who presented papers, were quite skeptical about any connection.

Background on the conference is here, here, here, here, here, and here.