Jesus’s tomb found?
Rushda:
February 27th, 2007
A new big secret is out about Jesus’s burial, one that could potentially change the face of Christianity – all courtesy of the great ‘authority’ of a Hollywood director. James Cameron, the Oscar-winning director of Titanic is making a new documentary in which he tries to show that Jesus’s tomb has already been found and that he was buried with Mary Magdalene. The film examines a tomb which was found by archaeologists near Jerusalem a couple of decades ago and producers say that it is most likely that it belonged to Jesus and his family. Apparently “statistical tests and DNA analysis” supports this view (though I’m not sure how they got the latter). Lots of other archaeologists say it is unfounded as the names on the tombs were very common at the time. Whatever the chances are like, I’m very sceptical that the film has hit on the truth, and even more sceptical that Christians would accept it. I would have thought we’re all tired of this Da Vinci Code stuff by now, but obviously not Cameron, who just looks like he’s shamelessly jumped on the bandwagon.