Hosted by Duane Smith- and it’s excellent. It has balloons too!!!!! I especially liked this bit:
The ASOR featured a series of posts on the all too famous Talpiyot Tombs and Tabor and Jacobovici’s exploitation of them in a new book. Christopher Rollston outlined his epigraphical findings and then focused in on the claims of Tabor and Jacobovici. Rollston also republished a draft of his 2006 Near Eastern Archaeology paper “Inscribed Ossuaries: Personal Names, Statistics, and Laboratory Tests” on his own blog.Eric M.Meyers focused on an image which Tabor and Jacobovici make much of but which seems to Eric to be an image of a tomb monument. Jodi Magness takes up Tabor and Jacobovici’s claims from the perspective of an archaeologist. She’s not happy. Jim Davila, Joseph Lauer, Robert Cargill, Jim West (twice),Antonio Lombatti, Tom Verenna, and Michael Heiser all joined in the debunking. Stephen Smuts, Mark Goodacre and Tom Verenna provided excellent summaries of posts and reports. As the story developed yesterday, Todd Bolen posted a report by Gordon Franz who attended the news conference formally introducingTabor and Jacobovici’s book. James McGrath asked, “Is the New Testament Evidence Compatible with Jesus having been Buried in Talpiot?” Unlikely that it is. Jim Davila posted an update. He includes a lint to Robin Jensen’s ASOR post in which she says among otherthings, “I absolutely refute any claim that I concur with the interpretation of any first-century ossuary iconography as depicting Jonah. Nor do I believe that ‘first-century visual evidence of Christian belief in the resurrection’ has been discovered to date.” Jim West noted that all the scholarly effort has made an impact. He cited an MSNBC story that quotes from various authors who posted to the ASOR blog.
Do read it all. Duane has a masterful mind when it comes to arranging things.
And while I’m at it, let me again mention that I’m hosting the next carnival and your suggestions are completely welcome.
