It is So Totally Bedtime for Me!
One last item on this wonderful Jesus Tomb fiascoe, and then I will go to bed since it is late and I am tired.
CARM supplied some new data for me, that I think it is interesting to note for this discussion. First, tombs were used for several generations in Jewish custom. That means that these bodies are not necessairly representative of only one generation of this family, and they may have lived many years apart. Second, this tomb has been disturbed and vandalized prior to modern discovery. What may have been altered, defaced, or destroyed? We may never know.
Finally, this article was linked to by CARM, and it backs up my wife’s theory (albeit in a different way). My wife says that the name “Yeshua” also translates as “Joshua,” and therefore supposes that the person in the tomb may have been named Joshua, not Jesus. Jody is in good company with this theory of a misread name. Stephen Pfann, a biblical scholar at the University of the Holy Land in Jerusalem, doesn’t think that the inscription says “Jesus.” He thinks it says “Hanun.”
