Is Jackson Snyder a Believer in the Jesus Family Tomb?
I have been thinking about Jesus Family Tomb since LONG before the television special. I have studied and imagined many scenarios. The very tale you have just read, The Shocking True Story Behind the Jesus Family Tomb, I wrote earlier in pieces in several essays going back as long as six years. It just so happens that my story fits the tomb inscriptions like O. J. Simpson fits his glove (not the bloody one). To me, the program was very inspirational, factual and believable . . . ; yet the way the story trailed off into the DaVinci Code showed the extreme ignorance of the Naked Archaeologist in regard to first century history in Palestine, the Essene / Nazorean Movement and Yahshuas history as we know it. (For crying out loud, the guy admitted he didnt even know Yahshua had a brother even after the James Ossuary came out 4 years ago!) I believe the tomb was purchased by someone in the second to fourth century someone who had these names scratched into the bone boxes and charged admissio