berani taruhan cebanan, mau sampai jaman dunia kiamat, kontroversi tentang
ke'Tuhan'an Yesus & kemanusiaan Yesus gak akan pernah selesai, jadi pada
akhir-nya ke-iman-an seseorang (baca: orang kristen), itu dituntut untuk bisa
beriman dengan hati yang bening .. hehehe ..
james camerron yg suxes dgn film2 hollywood-nya (titanic, the abyss,
terminator), bikin film yg lebih heboh, lebih seru, dan dia yakin semua-nya itu
didukung dengan kebenaran ilmiah .. huehehehe .. great .. yah .. paling tidak
buat food for thought .. ini berita-nya dr bbc & discovery channel:
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Last Updated: Monday, 26 February 2007, 23:05 GMT
Jesus tomb found, says film-maker
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6397373.stm)
A documentary claims
this is the ossuary of Jesus Christ
Jesus had a son named Judah and was buried alongside Mary
Magdalene, according to a new documentary by Hollywood film director James
Cameron. The film examines a tomb found near Jerusalem in 1980 which
producers say belonged to Jesus and his family.
Speaking in New York, the Oscar-winning Titanic director said statistical
tests and DNA analysis backed this view.
But Mr Cameron's claim has been attacked by archaeologists and theologians as
unfounded.
Archaeologists said that the burial cave was probably that of a Jewish family
with similar names to that of Jesus.
But Mr Cameron said the combination of names found on the tombs convinced him
of their heritage.
Samples tested
Israeli construction workers building an apartment complex in Jerusalem's East
Talpiot district first uncovered 10 of the 2,000-year-old ossuaries - or
limestone coffins - in a tomb in March 1980.
According to the Israel Antiquities Authority, six of those coffins were
marked with the names Mary; Matthew; Jesua son of Joseph; Mary; Jofa (Joseph,
Jesus' brother); and Judah son of Jesua.
It doesn't get bigger than
this
James Cameron
Hollywood film director
Another grave said by producers to be of Mary Magdalene convinced researchers
of the truth of their find, Mr Cameron said at a New York news conference.
Unveiling his documentary The Lost Tomb of Jesus, Mr Cameron said the chances
of finding that combination of names together was like finding a grave marked
Ringo next to others marked John, Paul and George.
"Mariamene is Mary Magdalene - that's the Ringo, that's what sets this whole
film in motion," he said.
Christian contradiction?
The documentary asserts that tests on samples from two of the coffins show
Jesus and Mary Magdalene were likely to have been buried in them and were a
couple.
The film-makers used this finding to claim that the coffin marked "Judah son
of Jesua" contains the son of Jesus and Mary.
But they said the discovery of the tomb does not undermine the key Christian
belief that Jesus was resurrected three days after his death.
Academic Stephen Pfann, a scholar at the University of the Holy Land in
Jerusalem, said he did not expect Christians to accept the film's findings.
"I don't think that Christians are going to buy into this," said Mr Pfann, who
was interviewed by the film-makers.
"But sceptics, in general, would like to see something that pokes holes into
the story that so many people hold dear."
Findings refuted
Israeli archaeologist Amos Kloner, who was among the first to examine the
tomb when it was first discovered, said the names marked on the coffins were
very common at the time.
Film director James Cameron produced the documentary
"I don't accept the news that it was used by Jesus or his
family," he told the BBC News website.
"The documentary filmmakers are using it to sell their film."
Mr Cameron showed two of the coffins at the news conference.
"It doesn't get bigger than this," he said in an earlier press release.
"We've done our homework; we've made the case; and now it's time for the
debate to begin."
Local residents told the BBC News website they were pleased with the attention
the tomb has drawn.
"It will mean our house prices will go up because Christians will want to live
here," one woman said.
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Jesus Family Tomb Believed
Found(http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/02/25/tomb_arc.html?category=archaeology&guid=20070225073000)
Feb. 25, 2007 New scientific evidence, including DNA analysis conducted at
one of the world's foremost molecular genetics laboratories, as well as studies
by leading scholars, suggests a 2,000-year-old Jerusalem tomb could have once
held the remains of Jesus of Nazareth and his family. The findings also suggest
that Jesus and Mary Magdalene might have produced a son named Judah.
The DNA findings, alongside statistical conclusions made about the artifacts
originally excavated in 1980 open a potentially significant chapter in
Biblical archaeological history.
A documentary presenting the evidence, "The Lost Tomb of Jesus," will
premiere on the Discovery Channel on March 4 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The documentary
comes from executive producer James Cameron and director Simcha Jacobovici.
At least four leading epigraphers have corroborated the ossuary inscriptions
for the documentary, according to the Discovery Channel.
Frank Moore Cross, a professor emeritus in the Department of Near Eastern
Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, told Discovery News, "The
inscriptions are from the Herodian Period (which occurred from around 1 B.C. to
1 A.D.). The use of limestone ossuaries and the varied script styles are
characteristic of that time."
Jodi Magness, associate department chair of religious studies at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, told Discovery News that, based on
the New Testament writings, "Jesus likely lived during the first century A.D."
In addition to the "Judah son of Jesus" inscription, which is written in
Aramaic on one of the ossuaries, another limestone burial box is labeled in
Aramaic with "Jesus Son of Joseph." Another bears the Hebrew inscription
"Maria," a Latin version of "Miriam," or, in English, "Mary." Yet another
ossuary inscription, written in Hebrew, reads "Matia," the original Hebrew word
for "Matthew." Only one of the inscriptions is written in Greek. It reads,
"Mariamene e Mara," which can be translated as, "Mary known as the master."
Francois Bovon, professor of the history of religion at Harvard University,
told Discovery News, "Mariamene, or Mariamne, probably was the actual name
given to Mary Magdalene."
Bovon explained that he and a colleague discovered a fourteenth century copy
in Greek of a fourth century text that contains the most complete version of
the "Acts of Philip" ever found. Although not included in the Bible, the "Acts
of Philip" mentions the apostles and Mariamne, sister of the apostle Philip.
"When Philip is weak, she is strong," Bovon said. "She likely was a great
teacher who even inspired her own sect of followers, called Mariamnists, who
existed from around the 2nd to the 3rd century."
DNA Analysis
Jacobovici, director, producer and writer of "The Lost Tomb of Jesus," and
his team obtained two sets of samples from the ossuaries for DNA and chemical
analysis. The first set consisted of bits of matter taken from the "Jesus Son
of Joseph" and "Mariamene e Mara" ossuaries. The second set consisted of patina
a chemical film encrustation on one of the limestone boxes.
The human remains were analyzed by Carney Matheson, a scientist at the
Paleo-DNA Laboratory at Lakehead University in Ontario, Canada. Mitochondrial
DNA examination determined the individual in the Jesus ossuary and the person
in the ossuary linked to Mary Magdalene were not related.
Since tombs normally contain either blood relations or spouses, Jacobovici
and his team suggest it is possible Jesus and Mary Magdalene were a couple.
"Judah," whom they indicate may have been their son, could have been the "lad"
described in the Gospel of John as sleeping in Jesus' lap at the Last Supper.
Robert Genna, director of the Suffolk County Crime Laboratory in New York,
analyzed both the patina taken from the Talpiot Tomb and chemical residue
obtained from the "James" ossuary, which was also found around 1980, but
subsequently disappeared and resurfaced in the antiquities market. Although
controversy surrounds this burial box, Genna found that the two patinas matched.
"The samples were consistent with each other," Genna told Discovery News.
Upon examining the tomb, the filmmakers determined a space exists that would
have fit the "James" ossuary. Given the patina match and this observation,
Jacobovici theorizes the lost burial box could, in fact, be the "James" ossuary.
Statistical Data
A possible argument against the Talpiot Tomb being the Jesus Family Tomb is
that the collection of names on the ossuary inscriptions could be coincidental.
But Andrey Feuerverger, professor of statistics and mathematics at the
University of Toronto, recently conducted a study addressing the probabilities
that will soon be published in a leading statistical journal.
Feuerverger multiplied the instances that each name appeared during the tomb's
time period with the instances of every other name. He initially found "Jesus
Son of Joseph" appeared once out of 190 times, Mariamne appeared once out of
160 times and so on. To be conservative, he next divided the resulting numbers
by 25 percent, a statistical standard, and further divided the results by 1,000
to attempt to account for all tombs even those that have not been uncovered
that could have existed in first century Jerusalem.
The study concludes that the odds are at least 600 to 1 in favor of the
Talpiot Tomb being the Jesus Family Tomb. In other words, the conclusion works
599 times out of 600.
Another Tomb?
The researchers discovered a second, as-yet unexplored tomb about 65 1/2 feet
from the Talpiot Tomb. During the documentary, they introduced a robotic camera
into this second tomb, which captured the first-ever recorded footage of an
undisturbed burial cave from Jesus' time. The team speculates that this other
tomb could contain the remains of additional family members, or even disciples,
though further examination and analysis are needed.
As Academy Award-winner Cameron said in a press release, "It doesn't get
bigger than this. We've done our homework; we've made the case; and now it's
time for the debate to begin."
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