The Telegraph reports Simcha’s suggestion that the nails of Jesus’ crucifixion have been found. Dan Bahat responds
“Nails can be for example of a wooden sarcophagus in which the deceased was laid until his body decayed and decomposed and then put into an ossuary. So the possibility of finding nails [...] is not something which should have too much meaning.”
More than that, the suggestion is nothing more than supposition piled on top of fantasy. There’s just NO WAY that a couple of nails found in the back drawers of the IAA can be connected with Caiaphas’ ossuary and EVEN if they could be- there’s NO WAY to connect those nails to the crucifixion of Jesus. It’s all just nonsense.
And why’s it being mentioned again unless there’s a TV special coming out or a book about to be published? This nonsense was debunked by everyone 8 moths ago.
It’s nothing more than the misuse of archaeology for the sake of personal profit. There’s no way to spin it otherwise.
The Guardian (back in April) did a better job than the Telegraph in showing this absurdity absurd, cleverly linking these nails with such rubbish as the Turin Shroud and the Jesus Towel.
Canadian-Israeli director Simcha Jacobovici’s The Nails of the Cross is the veteran investigator’s second film claiming to have discovered artefacts linked to Christ. He also directed 2007′s The Lost Tomb of Jesus. But experts have poured scorn on the latest findings, suggesting that the film is little more than a publicity stunt. However, this time around, Jacobovici says he has historical and archaeological context for his claims.
“What we are bringing to the world is the best archaeological argument ever made that two of the nails from the crucifixion of Jesus have been found,” he told Reuters. “Do I know 100% yes, these are them? I don’t.”
The Nails of the Cross suggests the artefacts were found in the grave of Jewish high priest Caiaphas, who according to the New Testament sent Jesus to his death after handing him over to the Romans. They disappeared centuries ago but were later tracked by Jacobovici to the Tel Aviv laboratory of an anthropologist who is an expert on ancient bones.
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The Israel Antiquities Authority, which oversaw the excavation of the tomb – it has since been resealed – cast doubt upon suggestions that the grave was definitively the burial place of Caiaphas, and said nails are commonly found in such locations.
“There is no doubt that the talented director Simcha Jacobovici created an interesting film with a real archaeological find at its centre,” said a spokesman. “But the interpretation presented in it has no basis in archaeological findings or research.”
The last sentence says it all. So if you want to buy Simcha’s theory go ahead. Just know, it’s a cotton candy spun whole cloth out of a non-naked non archaeologist’s imagination. It is the equivalent of von Daniken’s ‘Chariots of the gods’ as legitimate interpretation of the evidence.
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One should go to the news article and see the humiliating way in which readers mock this ‘rehash for cash’ as we published the definative article on this tomb find soon after it was discovered. Furthermore, it was Easter time and the media were working on a deadline and SJ and the BAR crowd were more than willing to invent it. His claim about spending 3 yrs on research on this make it more like 3 minutes, nothing more. Furthermore, by making the High Priest, almost into a messianic Jew, if further inflames the ideas of anti-Semitism.