JESUS' TOMB DISCOVERY IS TITANIC FRAUD


February 26, 2007    

JESUS' TOMB DISCOVERY IS TITANIC FRAUD

"Titanic" director James Cameron and TV-director Simcha Jacobovici are
claiming they have evidence of a Jerusalem tomb that allegedly houses
the remains of Jesus and his family. Commenting on this is Catholic
League president Bill Donohue:
 
"Not a Lenten season goes by without some author or TV program seeking
to cast doubt on the divinity of Jesus and/or the Resurrection. Last
April, NBC's 'Dateline' featured the wholly discredited and downright
laughable claims of Michael Baigent, and two years ago ABC treated us to
a special that questioned every aspect of the Resurrection. Now we have
the Cameron-Jacobovici thesis.
 
"Israeli archeologist Amos Kloner was in charge of the 1980
investigation of the tomb that Cameron-Jacobovici have seized on 27
years later to make their allegations. 'The claim that the burial site
has been found is not based on any proof, and is only an attempt to
sell,' Kloner says. He adds,  'I refute all claims and efforts to
waken a renewed interest in the findings. With all due respect, they are
not archeologists.' Indeed, Kloner has branded their claims 'impossible'
and 'nonsense.' Moreover, he says there is 'no likelihood' that Jesus
and his relatives had a family tomb. 'It makes a great story for a TV
film,' he concludes.
 
"Joe Zias, who spent a quarter-century as an archeologist at the
Rockefeller University in Jerusalem, said that 'Simcha has no
credibility whatsoever.' Zias isn't shooting from the hip: Jacobovici's
credibility explodes when one considers that he still believes the 2002
tale about an ossuary with the inscription, 'James, son of Joseph,
brother of Jesus.' On June 18, 2003, the Israel Antiquities Authority
(IAA) condemned this claim as a modern forgery?this was the unanimous
decision of a 15-member IAA committee. Agreeing with this decision were
Harvard's Frank Cross and Tel Aviv University professor Edward
Greenstein. 
"The Discovery Channel aired the 2002 hoax and now it's back with the
Titanic fraud. It's time the Discovery Channel discovered ethics and
stopped with the sensationalism."

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