Can't we all agree that given the amount of time that has passed, and the lack (Actually Zero) new evidence proving that this is the tomb of Jesus, that the documentary is a big hoax? I would have assumed that the original excavators disputing the documentary would be enough for any viewers to discount the claims make by Simcha and Cameron.
shareYes, unless if somebody did the found new evidence and decided to keep them to himself.
shareTrue. Somebody could have kept evidence. If there were Christians or highly ranked politicians among those of the excavation crew, then they might have. But otherwise, nobody kept anything. The investigation was a wild goose chase. It would have been the discovery to change the world. Literally. If they had really thought they had something, they would have stayed with it 100%. But they didn't. Simcha Jacobovici, the creator of the documentary and head of the investigation, is back to discussing artifact collections on the History channel.
shareSo I guess then James Tabor is the only person who still thinks there was something to it?
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What exactly are you expecting there to be? Written records in the tomb? As the historian said in the documentary concerning the Caiphas ossuary, we'll never know for certain that that was _the_ Caiphas. I also don't know what you're expecting film makers to do about this. These artifacts sat collecting dust in a warehouse for decades before this documentary brought attention to them, and you're not going to see the wheels of scholarship rewrite history in the two years hence.
Jacobovici is a producer and journalist and Cameron is a film director. They're not the people who are going to be doing hard scholarly research to definitively prove or disprove this theory. As you might have gathered from the documentary, most scholarly (rightly) don't want to touch this. Who wants to try knocking the legs out from under the world's majority religion? They'd become the archeological/historical equivalent of Salmon Rushdie.
No, we can't agree that it's "a big hoax". James Cameron didn't dig the tomb himself and carve the ossuaries. Everything you saw in the documentary, with the specifically noted exception regarding the controversy about the inscription on the James ossuary, is undeniably real. There's no question regarding the authenticity of the tomb or the other 9 ossuaries.
Regarding new evidence... I'm not sure we need new evidence. The old evidence was pretty significant. Also, we don't know if the IAA has allowed the tomb to be unsealed again.