What is the historical significance of the Jesus family tomb?
Its not impossible that some future evidence might overturn my conviction that the Talpiot tomb is the tomb of the historical Jesus; forgery might have been involved after all, or some other sensational discovery may uncover some nefarious plot. Or perhaps theres specific evidence that the people in this tomb are not related to Jesus. But prima facie, the Talpiot tomb is the real thing. You have the archeological evidence, the rare cluster of names with New Testament references, the several languages used, which leads me to believe that this cannot be a coincidence. My belief that this is the Jesus family tomb is strengthened by historical reasons: it fits in perfectly with a belief that the Ebionites were the true followers of Jesus, that Jewish Christian Ebionism was the direct spiritual descendant of the primitive Christian church and of Jesus himself. It does not fit in as well, or at all, with the traditional conception of Jesus. For the Ebionites, the family of Jesus was all-impo
