{"id":544,"date":"2007-03-17T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-17T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/2007\/03\/amos-kloner-interviewed-by-darrell-bock--the-tenth-ossuary-was-blank.html"},"modified":"2007-03-17T10:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-17T10:01:00","slug":"amos-kloner-interviewed-by-darrell-bock-the-tenth-ossuary-was-blank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2007\/03\/amos-kloner-interviewed-by-darrell-bock-the-tenth-ossuary-was-blank.html","title":{"rendered":"Amos Kloner Interviewed by Darrell Bock– the Tenth Ossuary was Blank"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is now a critique of the Discovery Channel documentary by Amos Kloner himself as interviewed by Dr. Darrell Bock. It is in so many ways very revealing and makes perfectly clear that the tenth and blank ossuary was not by any means the James ossuary which we have no reason to think came from the Talpiot tomb. Indeed there are many reasons to think otherwise, a few of which can be listed here:
http:\/\/www.bible.org\/page.php?page_id=4891<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\" Click here to join Dr. Bock and Amos Kloner<\/a><\/p>\n

1) Oded Golan’s family has testified that he had that ossuary in the 70s; 2) one of his old girl friends also said she saw it back then, and she doesn’t even care for the man any more; 3) photographic evidence, apparently corroborated by the FBI at the trial shows that he had it before the Israeli law changed on this subject; and 4) Eusebius was not referring to some later medieval relic site near the so-callled tomb of Absalom mistaken for the tomb of James. He is quite specific in saying he saw an inscribed stele as well marking out this tomb as the tomb of James the Just. He ought to know— he lived in the Holy Land in the 4th century. He certainly ought to know better than we do; 5) the antiquities dealer from whom Oded got the box said it came from Silwan, and the soil found in it comported with that view; 6) the measurements of the James ossuary don’t match the measurements of the tenth ossuary, and Zias and Kloner are clear enough there was only ten in the Talpiot tomb. Of course we can’t question the deceased member of the excavation team, but Kloner and Zias are clear enough– that last ossuary could not be the James ossuary– it was blank. 7) I have detailed photos of the James ossuary including photos of the pitted nature of the bottom portion of the face of the box, caused by water damage over a long period of time. This ossuary was not in a dry cave for centuries, definitely not, and this distinguishes it from the ossuaries that came out of the Talpiot tomb so far as I can see.<\/p>\n

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