Monday, March 05, 2007
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"LOST TOMB" Loses Sight of History
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Posted by:
Michael Medved at
9:15 PM
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Sunday night's broadcast on the Discovery Channel of the new documentary “The Lost Tomb of Jesus” represents one more attempt by media manipulators to distort and exploit Biblical history. James Cameron, recently foundering director of “Titanic,” sinks with this heavily-hyped Discovery Channel show based on 25-year-old Israeli excavations. Far outside the Old City of Jerusalem, archaeologists discovered ten ossuaries – or bone boxes- with indistinct lettering that may spell-out common Hebrew names, including Jesus, Mary, Matthew “son of Jesus”, and others. All leading Israeli archaeologists denounce attempts to link this tomb with Christ’s family, and use of dubious evidence to contradict the resurrection story in the New Testament. Israel’s former UN Ambassador Dore Gold makes clear in his new book “The Fight for Jerusalem,” that media outlets love focusing on challenges to Biblical accounts, but largely ignore mounting scientific evidence confirming scriptural stories. “The Lost Tomb of Jesus” follows this pattern as an insult both to responsible history and religious belief.
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