Tuesday, February 27, 2007

The Lost Tomb?

Dr. Ben Witherington (a real scholar) has a post in which he shows how completely ridiculous the claims of movie director James Cameron (not a scholar by any stretch) that he has discovered the lost tomb of Jesus Christ.

THE JESUS TOMB? ‘TITANIC’ TALPIOT TOMB THEORY SUNK FROM THE START

One does get tired of the media going into a tizzy every time some idiot comes along with such manifestly baseless claims, and making pronouncements about how this could "rock the Christian faith." It would probably help if more people in the media had a real education of their own -- in some field other than how to look good on camera.

Update:
Get Religion weighs in on this as well.

Codex gives a round up of other posts on this subject.

More updates:

Ben Witherington adds to his original comments here.

More from Ben Witherington:

THE SMOKING GUN---TENTH TALPIOT OSSUARY PROVED TO BE BLANK

More from Get Religion:

Can we call Lost Tomb a hoax now?

And Codex gives another days round up of news on this subject.