The Real Tomb of Jesus?

Recently, executive producer James Cameron and director Simcha Jacobovici revealed their latest discovery: 10 ossuaries or “bone-boxes” belonging to the family of Jesus. These 10 ossuaries are now placed in the Israel Antiquities Association. Of course, their claims are of publicity and attention, because their only reason is that one of the ossuaries was inscribed with Yeshua bar Yosef (Jesus, son of Joseph). The name Yeshua is a rather common Jewish name from that period, there are two other tombs discovered in the 1980s with the same name inscribed. Professor Amos Kloner, who originally excavated the tomb, has confirmed that these ossuaries do not belong to the family of Jesus in Jerusalem. Professor Kloner, who teaches Archaeology at Bar-Ilan University, was the first archaeologist to examine the site.

Biblical Anthropologist Professor Joe Zias had said: “Only rich people are buried in family tomb. If Jesus’ family was wealthy enough to own a burial cave, he should be buried in his home town of Nazareth because he is called Jesus of Nazareth.”

Moreover, both Roman and Jew have been actively looking for Jesus’ body, to avoid Christians from spreading the Good news of Christ. Thus, if the tomb was the family tomb of Jesus, the Jews would make this an issue already, denying the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

And Cameron said that he was neither a Biblical scholar nor an archeologist, but a documentary film maker. Therefore, we should not doubt that Christ has already risen and He is amongst us.