Witherington on The Jesus Family Tomb

Ben Witherington, who recently offered his critique of the forthcoming documentary entitled The Lost Tomb of Jesus, now offers his critique of the corresponding book, The Jesus Family Tomb. Here’s a selection:

There is a major problem with the analysis of the names on these ossuaries. By this I mean one has to explain why one is in Hebrew, several are in Aramaic, but the supposed Mary Magdalene ossuary is in Greek. This suggests a multi-generation tomb, not a single generation tomb, and indeed a tomb that comes from after A.D. 70 after the Romans had destroyed the temple mount and Jewish Christians fled the city.

Read the whole post at his blog.

See also our overview post.

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