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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
More recently, Simcha has achieved notoriety because of a claim that he, along with a scholar named James Tabor who heretofore, at least, had great academic credentials, made about a tomb in the Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem. They claim that it is the tomb of Jesus of Nazareth and his family. That's the subject of The Jesus Discovery book that you posted. The implications of that are enormous if what the book says is true--it would seem to have to mean that Jesus Christ was not resurrected (physically/bodily, at least) from the dead.
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Tabor is still a respected scholar, but is considered to be somewhat credulous by many of his colleagues. I've watched several of the talks that he's done for
Biblical Archaeology Society. Though his attempts at reconstructing the historical Jesus may be a little stretched, his work excavating the Essene sites that are associated with the Dead Sea Scrolls is excellent and steps on fewer toes.