This article accompanies the fable
Sacred Prostitute



The Lost Tomb of Jesus

In March 2007, this Discovery Channel show produced by James Cameron and Simcha Jacobovici declared that Jesus’ family tomb had been discovered (back in 1980) and that Jesus and Mary Magdalene and their child were among those found in it. 

While I suppose anything is possible, the objections from religious scholars were more interesting than the show itself: why would this family from Galilee be buried in S.E. Jerusalem at Talpiot in the first place and, since they were a poor family, how did they come to afford it?  Why was there a Matthew in the tomb when Jesus had no brother of that name and where are his actual brothers or sisters?  Fascinating though this is, the questions simply multiply faster than the answers…

Photo: Discovery Channel