The Discovery Channel’s hot video about Jesus’ tomb (and his wife Mary’s and their kids’) “makes a great story for a TV film. But it’s completely impossible. It’s nonsense,” Professor Amos Kloner of Bar Ilan University, who oversaw the original archeological dig 27 years ago, told the Jerusalem Post.
Galilee people like Jesus didn’t have family tombs in Jerusalem, for one thing. the names are common and not conclusive, for another:
It would be like finding a tomb with the name “George” on it in the future and people asserting that it must have been the tomb of President George Bush,
Hebrew University archeologist and epigraphist Leah DiSegni told Cybercast News.
Blithe Spirit 