{"id":83,"date":"2008-12-28T11:51:34","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T11:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/?p=83"},"modified":"2009-02-18T04:59:28","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T04:59:28","slug":"jesus-family-tomb-believed-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/2008\/12\/jesus-family-tomb-believed-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Family Tomb Believed Found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>N<\/strong>ew scientific evidence, including <strong>DNA analysis<\/strong> conducted at one of the world&#8217;s foremost molecular genetics laboratories, as well as studies by leading scholars, suggests a 2,000-year-old Jerusalem tomb could have once held the remains of <strong>Jesus<\/strong> of Nazareth and his family.<br \/>\nThe findings also suggest that Jesus and <strong>Mary Magdalene might<\/strong> have produced a son named Judah.<br \/>\nThe DNA findings, <strong>alongside statistical conclusions<\/strong> made about the artifacts   originally excavated in 1980  open a potentially significant chapter in<strong> Biblical archaeological history<\/strong>.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left; border: 1px solid black; margin: 1px;\" title=\"Bibilical RESEARCH ORGANIZATION \" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/image1\/biblical.jpg \" alt=\"bibilical RESEARCH ORGANIZATION\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" align=\"right\" \/><br \/>\nAlbright and his followers believed that <strong>archaeology<\/strong> could and should be used to shed light on the Biblical narrative, particularly the Old Testament. The influential academic positions held by Albright and his followers, and their immense output Albright alone was the author of over a thousand books and articles made their work immensely influential, especially in America, especially among ordinary believers who wished to believe that <strong>archaeology <\/strong>had proved the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/Archaeologicalcountry.php\"><strong>Bible true<\/strong><\/a>.<br \/>\nA documentary presenting the evidence, &#8220;The Lost Tomb of Jesus,&#8221; will premiere on the Discovery Channel on March 4 at 9 p.m. ET\/PT. The documentary comes from executive producer James Cameron and director Simcha Jacobovici.<br \/>\nIn fact the members of the school were not <strong>biblical literalists<\/strong>, and their main concern was to discriminate between those parts of the<strong> biblical story <\/strong>which were true and those which were embellishments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New scientific evidence, including DNA analysis conducted at one of the world&#8217;s foremost molecular genetics laboratories, as well as studies by leading scholars, suggests a 2,000-year-old Jerusalem tomb could have once held the remains of Jesus of Nazareth and his family. The findings also suggest that Jesus and Mary Magdalene might have produced a son [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[85],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-archaeology","tag-biblical-archaeological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}