{"id":326,"date":"2008-03-21T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/2008\/03\/rolling-the-stone-in-front-of-the-jesus-tomb-theory.html"},"modified":"2008-03-21T13:27:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T13:27:00","slug":"rolling-the-stone-in-front-of-the-jesus-tomb-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2008\/03\/rolling-the-stone-in-front-of-the-jesus-tomb-theory.html","title":{"rendered":"Rolling the Stone in front of the Jesus Tomb Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_MCBNSn1DlAU\/R-Pw9rcZJDI\/AAAAAAAAAg8\/4Q-elnwqYnY\/s1600-h\/193290_3.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_MCBNSn1DlAU\/R-Pw9rcZJDI\/AAAAAAAAAg8\/4Q-elnwqYnY\/s400\/193290_3.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>An article just appeared in National Review about the actual outcome of the Princeton Conference in January which among other things discussed the controversial Jesus tomb theory about the Talpiot tomb.   Here is the link:<\/p>\n<pre><tt><tt><a href=\"http:\/\/article.nationalreview.com\/?q=YmQwZjI5NWQ4Zjg1NTlkYjgzY2Y4NGExOTNiYTE1YTE=\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"EC_yshortcuts\">http:\/\/article.nationalreview.com\/?q=YmQwZjI5NWQ4Zjg1NTlkYjgzY2Y4NGExOTNiYTE1YTE=<\/span><\/a><\/tt><\/tt><\/pre>\n<p>In terms of fair representation of what all the scholars at the conference (save one) concluded about the matter  (namely they all rejected or were highly dubious about the theory including all the archaeologists and epigraphers present), this article provides a far less distorted picture than the original coverage of Time magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Its time to roll the stone in front of that tomb theory once and for all, as it has been tried, and found wanting  over and over again in various ways.  The forthcoming article by Richard Bauckham on the onomasticon is decisive in my judgment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article just appeared in National Review about the actual outcome of the Princeton Conference in January which among other things discussed the controversial Jesus tomb theory about the Talpiot tomb. Here is the link: http:\/\/article.nationalreview.com\/?q=YmQwZjI5NWQ4Zjg1NTlkYjgzY2Y4NGExOTNiYTE1YTE= In terms of fair representation of what all the scholars at the conference (save one) concluded about the matter&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rolling the Stone in front of the Jesus Tomb Theory - The Bible and Culture<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2008\/03\/rolling-the-stone-in-front-of-the-jesus-tomb-theory.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rolling the Stone in front of the Jesus Tomb Theory - The Bible and Culture\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An article just appeared in National Review about the actual outcome of the Princeton Conference in January which among other things discussed the controversial Jesus tomb theory about the Talpiot tomb. 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