... Now, let's get to what I want to talk about: The Talpiot Tombs.
So, it's just an average day in Israel, in 1980. A group of construction men wish to build an apartment complex, but instead discover a tomb of Jesus. Like I said: Just your average day in Israel.
On the entrance, the stone is craved with the words: "Yeshua bar Yehosef", translating to: "Jesus son of Joseph" ... I guess these people do not believe in the virgin birth... only kidding. The Talpiot find was first published in 1994 in "Catalogue of Jewish Ossuaries in the Collections of the State of Israel", and from then on it had much attention brought to it. A controversial 2007 documentary film produced by Canadian film director James Cameron and investigative journalist Simcha Jacobovici titled The Lost Tomb of Jesus and a book written by Jacobovici, together with Charles Pellegrino, The Jesus Family Tomb present findings that the authors believe prove that the Talpiot Tomb was the burial place of Jesus of Nazareth, as well as several other figures from the New Testament.
Well, I do not believe it is the Jesus family tomb. Here's why:
- If this was the Jesus family tomb, would we not include His wife? I mean, she would be the most important figure in His life, right? Well, maybe besides Yahweh (God I guess) and Elohim (The Mother in Gnostic beliefs... being Gnostic myself I felt it was only right to include Her...) That being said, Mary's body has already been found. It was found in a cave atop a mountain (damn hillbillys) somewhere around where it sits now, Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, France. (This proves right, because for the last years of her life she "served" as a nun and prayed in a cave for all of it...)
- So, if you think that Jesus did not rise, why would the idiot who stole Him go an hour down the road, only to bury him again? You'd think, they'd smuggle Him to Africa, Europe, or somewhere not within the Arabs or Palestine. Right?
- If this was really the "Family Tomb", Mother Mary would of also of been buried there. The Tomb of Virgin Mary, resting at the foot of Mount of Olives, Jerusalem, sorta maybe proves that theory wrong -- and for Joseph, he died when Jesus was 12, but the tomb dates back to 50 AD -- Meaning they'd have to move his long-dead body there. Seems unlikely to me.
- James, Jose, Judas, Simon, Mary, and Salome -- Children from Joseph's former marrige. Salome, for certain, is not buried here. She escaped with Mary Magdalene on a boat to France. For the rest? Most likely, they might be buried here. Maybe the inscription read, instead of "Jesus son of Joseph" it read, "Judas son of Joseph", "James son of Joseph", "Jose son of Joseph" ? Any of these "J" names (which would be "Y") might work better. As far as I'm concerned, they all died in Israel -- at least one of them had to.
Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed!
I will be driving a lot tomorrow, so I probably won't get another blog post out until Wednesday or so... Oh well. I guess it will have a lot of thought into it!
~~Clarabelle
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