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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
Some may not recognize the name, but Simcha was (and maybe is, I don't know if this series is still being produced) the host and producer of a show called the Naked Archaeologist. In each show, he pursues some question related to the Bible (the Old Testament, at least). In every episode he comes up with an answer that was invariably, it seems, is novel and goes against the prevailing scholarly opinion.
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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The problem with that (aside from conflict with scripture which is more fitted for the religion forum) is that Jesus is the Greek for what we would call Joshua and the name was probably pretty common around that part of the world at the time. So just finding a grave with the name Jesus on it in that part of the world isn't that odd. My middle name is Richard and I wager there are a good many men with the name Richard on their tombstones.