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Naked A rchaeo log ist ' f i nds s igns Je rusa lemave w as used t o bu ry Jesus ' d i scip les

mcha Jacobov i c i , an Em my -w inn ing documen ta ry d i rec to r and p roduce r , hopes

nd ings o f cu r ren t exp lo ra t i ons w i l l subs tan t i a te h i s ea r l i e r theo ry tha t Jesus w as

r ied i n a nea rby cave.

Ni r Hasson

der an ordinary residential building in Jerusalem's Armon Hanatziv

ighborhood, a robotic arm with a camera inserted into a Second

mple-era burial cave has revealed mysterious inscriptions and

awings on ossuaries.

mcha Jacobovici, an Emmy-winning documentary director and

oducer who is best known for his documentary TV series "The Naked

chaeologist," argues that the cave served as a burial cave for at

ast some of Jesus' disciples.

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cked by the Discovery Channel, and hopes his findings substantiate

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ried. He made that claim in a previous documentary, and said the

eory was backed up by the names found on the ossuaries, or

ceptacles for bones, in the cave.

e discoveries could potentially have revolutionary implications for

e understanding of early Christianity and of Jesus as a historical

ure.

cobovici's previous theories were based on findings by others, and a

ess conference he is scheduled to hold today in New York to unveil

book and film about his current project will be the first time he and

s colleagues reveal findings from their own explorations.

ery few years, Jacobovici shakes up the archaeological world,

ainly with his interpretations of Second Temple-era finds having to

with the New Testament. Last year, he argued that a pair of nails

und in another burial cave in Jerusalem were the original nails used

crucify Jesus.

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e cave, which was found in the 1990s, was sealed after protests

om ultra-Orthodox activists stopped the exploration, and an

artment house was subsequently built on top of it.

ter successfully negotiating with the residents' committee of the

ilding on Olei Hagardom Street for permission to drill into the floor,cobovici had an almost violent confrontation with the ultra-Orthodox

oup Atra Kadisha.

entually, he pledged to Atra Kadisha leader Rabbi David Schmidel

at he would explore the cave only by means of a robotic arm

serted through the building floor.

seems that the finds - the most important of which was an incised

awing clearly showing a large fish swallowing or vomiting a human

ure - were worth the effort.

n inscription in Greek letters found in a Jerusalem burial cave. Associated

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e carving underscores Jacobivici's belief that Jesus was buried in

e nearby cave because the fish, and the image of Jonah and the

hale, were both early Christian symbols.

e fish cannot be mistaken for something more ordinary, like the

ow of a ship, and can only be understood as a fish and a human

ure - making it unique among the hundreds of ossuaries found in

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rusalem, said Israeli archaeologist Rami Arav of the University of

braska, a member of Jacobovici's team.

other member of the team is James Tabor, an expert on religions

om the University of North Carolina.

the early Christian burials in the Catacombs of Rome are 108

pictions of Jonah, Jacobovici told Haaretz last week. Jonah's power

a Christian symbol comes from a verse in the Book of Matthew

mparing Jonah's emergence after three days in the belly of the

hale to Jesus' resurrection after three days.

e second of Jacobovici's dramatic finds is an inscription in Greek

ters. It can be variously interpreted, but all refer in one way or

other to resurrection, he says.

cobovici, along with the experts he has enlisted, claims the words

e "God" in Greek, the Tetragrammaton (the traditionally unutterable

ur-letter name of God in Hebrew ), the word "arise" or "resurrected"

Greek, and the word "arise" or "resurrected" in Hebrew.

is appears to support the claim that the cave was used as an early

ristian burial site because the idea that a mainstream member of

e Jewish community would inscribe an ossuary with the

tragrammaton is unlikely; even a prayer containing this word has

ver been found on an ossuary.

shows us that perhaps this whole area was a very unorthodox

ea, a different area. Not the Jewish mainstream," said Arav.

like many archaeologists, Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologist

val Baruch - who appears to be the only Israeli archaeologist other

an Arav who has seen the findings - says Jacobovici could be right.

though Baruch said yesterday that Jacobovici's use of a robot "to

otograph not in the best light" was problematic, he added: "If it is

deed a fish, it is fantastic. It has no parallel."

ruch criticized Jacobovici's work for being "mostly unconnected to

ntext."

ssuaries were not mass produced, and different decorations are

ing discovered all the time," he said.

the same, he said archaeologists should be grateful.

rchaeologists have to understand that what Simcha does is to take

e esoteric profession of archaeology and turn it into Indiana Jones,

mething very appealing," he said. "From that perspective, we should

ank him."

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7.Simc ha i s a hero !

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w a s u n d e r I s l am i c c o n t r o l , t h e se s i t e s w o u l d

h a v e b e e n t o t a l l y d e s t r o y e d l o n g a g o .

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A r e y o u s t u p i d o r j u s t p r a ct i c in g t o b e a

p r o f e ss i o n al i d i o t ? I t W A S u n d e r I s l am i c

c o n t r o l f o r c en t u r i e s y o u d u m m y .

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a M o s q u e o n t o p o f i t ? ? ?

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t o m b o f J e su s

Regina Akel 28.02.12 21:00

I g u e s s it w a s an a d v e r t i s en e n t f o r t h e

m o v i e " T h e B o d y " w i t h A n t o n i o B a n d e r as .

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