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Chapter 8-The lost tomb of Jesus  
     
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 The funny thing about the dead and the universe- they frequently do not operate according to the plans of the corrupt, the lies who are in power.
  
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 Truth has a way of revealing itself at its own timing.
  
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 So it was at East Talpiot, Jerusalem on March 30, 1980. A Jewish developer of apartments had accidentally unearthed a wholly unique and remarkable tomb with symbolic features never since on any ancient tomb of its kind in human history.
  
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 Upon their arrival, the first thing archaeologists Josef Gat, Amos Kloner and Shimon Gibson noted was the strange symbol over the door to the Jesus tomb, on the south face of the antechamber. A decorative V- or Y-shaped gable or chevron over a prominent circle. It measured more than a meter wide, a quite beautifully rendered stone relief sculpture.
 
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 Bones had been deliberately placed in the antechamber directly underneath the chevron symbol. In ancient Jerusalem, typically the dead were placed inside tombs; in tombs, the dead were placed inside ossuaries.
 
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 Ossuaries, known as “bone boxes”, were a Jewish tradition that lasted for around 100 years leading up to the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE.
 
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 Essentially the dead would be laid out on stone benches cut into the tomb for a period of time to allow all the flesh to rot and leave the bones. Then after a period the tomb would be re-opened and the bones collected and placed in an ossuary.
  
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 Yet this sign of bones under the chevron symbol was completely against Jewish traditions of the day and more akin to the Egyptian history of the burial of Pharaohs and the burial of great kings in general.
  
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 The existence of a tomb indicated a family of some importance. Tombs, especially elaborately carved tombs into rock were reserved for only the very wealthy and the very important. In the case of the tomb of East Talpiot, it indicated a family of extreme and unique importance as evidence by the unique symbol.
  
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 This symbol, most closely represented by the most ancient of StoneMason symbols, a stylized “eye of Ra” has only been seen in one place as one of the first symbols of the Nazarenes. The same symbol has been found on many dozens of ossuaries of early Nazarenes, sometimes mistakenly considered early Christians.
  
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 When the archeologists opened the tomb, they discovered a perfectly designed and cut tomb, again a point of great significance, given Jewish tomb builders were not usually as obsessed with precision as say the ancient Egyptians.
  
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 In terms of its precision of design, the East Talpiot tomb resembles more an Egyptian tomb than traditional Jewish tombs.
  
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 Inside, the archeologists found ten (10) ossuaries of simple design.
 
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 Some ossuaries discovered have been found with wonderfully detailed carvings, most notably Sadducee families who even in death wanted to stand out. The family tomb of High priest Caiphas, a member of the House of Hanan and the same High Priest who in the Bible had Jesus sent to Pontius Pilate, contained many beautifully carved ossuaries.
  
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 In spite of the obvious importance of this family, the absence of ornate ossuaries indicated a deliberate choice- rather than a limit of resources. This implies in the first instance a non-Sadducee tomb and more an Essene or Nazarene tomb.
  
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 Of the ten ossuaries, inscriptions were recorded as occurring on six, a high ratio considering that only 20% of ossuaries ever found bear such inscriptions.
 
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 In the same tradition of re-burying the bones of the dead in limestone ossuaries, it was practice to inscribe in a graffiti style the common name, sometimes nickname of the prominent person laid to rest within an important family tomb.
  
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 Given the present day obsession in precise headstones and epitaphs for the dead, this “graffiti” approach where sometimes only one in five ossuaries would have any inscription is quite remarkable period of history. Even the Sadducee families carried the same tradition up until the destruction of the Temple.
  
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 The inscriptions were not for public view, for once buried, the dead were supposed to remain in their final resting place.
  
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 Another tradition was the scratching of an x, implying “tau” or end, finished and completed into some ossuaries. This is incorrectly assumed by Biblical scholars and archeologists to be a mason mark- clearly an incorrect assumption. For the x is never in the same place, or even the same style and has no geometric alignment or bearing.
  
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 Nor is this x an early Christian symbol, but rather an indication by the family re-burying their dead of a life well lived.
 
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 There is one more astounding fact concerning this tomb- it was opened by archeologists- not by grave robbers. So there can be no disputing the authenticity of its contents, nor its history.
  
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 All of the inscriptions are authentic. Everything concerning the 2,000 year old tomb is scientifically verifiable.
  
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 In terms of the graffiti style names scratched into the sides of those six ossuaries were suggestive:
 
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 Ossuary 80/500: Mariamene e Mara” – “Mariamne, also called Master”
 
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 Ossuary 80/501: Yehuda bar Yeshua” – “Judah, son of Jesus”
 
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 Ossuary 80/502: "Matia” – “Martha/Matthew”
 
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 Ossuary 80/503 "Yeshua bar Yosef” – “Jesus, Son of Joseph”
 
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 Ossuary 80/504: "Yose” or “Yosa” – a nickname for “Joseph”
 
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 Ossuary 80/505: "Maria” – a Latinized version of the Hebrew “Miriam.”
 
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 Ossuaries 80/506-508 were plain, with no inscriptions.
 
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 Ossuary 80/509 “James bar Yosef”- James, Son of Joseph- This ossuary was later stolen and altered with the fraud “brother of Jesus”, so the inscription was made to read “James, Son of Joseph, Brother of Jesus”. However upon scientific testing of the limestone and atomic spectrometry of the material, the “James ossuary” is a 100% scientifically verified match as the stolen ossuary 80/509.
 
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 When the tomb was open, the bones of Jesus and his brothers and sisters, including his son existed. Science has even managed to recover some of the DNA of Jesus and Mary Magdalene (Mariamne). However the bones of Jesus and his family were re-buried by the Ultra-Orthodox Jews who follow their interpretation of Pharisee beliefs. The precise location of the bones of Jesus and his family is lost.
  
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 There can be no question, the East Talpiot tomb is the final resting place for the body of Jesus and his brothers and sisters. Nor can there be any doubt Jesus existed. Nor can there be any doubt that the Sadducee family business of Christianity and more recently Roman Catholicism are horrendous lies.
  
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 Yet the response to the discovery of the actual tomb of Jesus is remarkable. Christian scholars point to the obvious fact that the names Jesus and Mary were common names. Taken individually, there is nothing remarkable about the names inscribed on the ossuaries at East Talpiot.
  
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 But just discussing the names individually and refusing to calculate the combined odds of all these names existing in one tomb is both deliberately deceitful and poor scholarly work. For the real test is the odds of all these names existing in one tomb.
  
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 And the odds are astounding. There is between a 200,000,000:1 and a 3,000,000,000:1 chance of another tomb existing exactly the same in human history.
  
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 In other words, 2,000 years ago there were only around 120 million people, so the odds are greater than the population of the day. Therefore in pure statistics there is no possibility that the tomb is anyone other than Jesus also known as Jesus Christ.
  

 
 
 

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