194833 Resource 169992 170084 170084 1200441351136 1200441520800 Controlled Jerusalem Conference: Talpiot Tomb

Day One

The Conference in <city w:st="on" /><place w:st="on" />Jerusalem</place /></city /> discussing the Talpiot Tomb will probably be the center of discussion on many blogs this week.  Day one has finished as I write, and I am led to understand that it has been at times a very heated day, and not because of the weather or the venue.  Rather, one presentation after another has shown the way in which the documentary makers of <a href="http://www.jesusfamilytomb.com/">The Jesus Family Tomb</a> have used information dishonestly or inappropriately.  The statement was made that archaeologists “get very heated over what we believe i[s] a dishonest attempt to fool the public at the expense of academia.”Another documentary entitled Archaeological Minefields by <personname w:st="on" /><givenname w:st="on" />Martin</givenname /> <sn w:st="on" />Himmel</sn /></personname /> was shown highlighting the media problems involved and is recommended to all students of history and archaeology.  I’ll try and find a URL for the video so that it can be watched.More will follow. 10 application/xml false Archaeology Jesus Family Tomb Jewish Burial Talpiot Tomb Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 pnathan 66.125.198.98 false true false false true 188838 false false true false false false true 169992 blog blogsite/FirstFollowers/web