195101 Resource 169992 170084 170084 1200699917524 1200849032478 Controlled Talpiot Tomb and Jerusalem Conference # 2

Insights into different skills applied to the claim of Talpiot being Jesus' Family Tomb

Jim West hosts a guest posting from <a href="http://www.esr.edu/Faculty/rollston.htm">Christopher Rollston</a> on <a href="http://drjimwest.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/christopher-rollston-on-the-talpiot-conference-a-guest-posting/">his blog today</a>.  Christopher's speciality is  prosopography and epigraphy which is the study of ancient inscriptions and writing, such as those found on the ossuaries in the Talpiot Tomb.In his guest post, Christopher shows not only the dynamics of the debate in Jerusalem, but how he and others approached their aspect of the task.Like the earlier post today from April DeConick, Christopher Rollston rejects the idea of the Talpiot Tomb being that of Jesus of Nazareth. He has already published an article on the subject in <a href="http://www.asor.org/pubs/nea/index.html">Near Eastern Archaeology</a>, a publication of the American Schools of Oriental Research.Christopher's analysis of the conference, tomb and details is worth a read. Christopher is Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Studies at Emmanuel School of Religion, Tennessee. 10 application/xml false Archaeology ASOR Christopher Rollston Jesus Jesus of Nazareth NEA Talpiot Tomb Third Princeton Seminar Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Avant Browser; SU 3.005; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 pnathan 216.175.96.47 false true false false true 188838 false false true false false false true 169992 blog blogsite/FirstFollowers/web