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Jesus tomb hoax resurrected

Last year, "Titanic" director James Cameron and TV-director Simcha Jacobovici said that the Jesus family tomb had been found. The archaeological community dismissed their contention completely, and now Princeton's James Charlesworth has completed a Jerusalem conference that brought together over 50 scientists to discuss the issue.

Last year, James Cameron declared that it had been determined "beyond any reasonable doubt" that the tomb of Jesus and his family had been found. His comment was absurd then, and it looks even more enfeebled now following the Charlesworth conference.

Charlesworth, while conceding the unexceptional - there is no unqualified empirical evidence that would settle the issue altogether - questions why, if this really were Jesus' ossuary, would the followers of the person they believed was the Son of God leave an inscription of Jesus' name that was merely "graffiti, just scratching"? Why, questions Charlesworth, was there "no ornamentation"? And why would the followers of the Son of God choose such a "lousy" looking tomb?

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