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The Jesus Family Tomb, Part II?
Continued from Part I:
Amen (interj.)
Old English, from Late Latin amen, from Ecclesiastical Greek amen, from Hebrew amen “truth,” used adverbially as an expression of agreement (as in Deuteronomy xxvii.26, I Kings i.36), from Semitic root a-m-n “to be trustworthy, confirm, support.”
https://www.etymonline.com/word/amen
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Amen, is probably the best word to use at the start rather than at the end of a nonfictional document to state that what you say is the truth of what you believe that is written.
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The Fifth ossuary which had a Greek inscription in two parts, the second part read Mara with the first part reading Maria, interpreted as Mary, the Master? However, scholars then interpreted the Greek inscription as—Marianme? The name Marianme found only in the Gospel of Philip, which is the term they use for Mary Magdalene.
Mary from Magdala, the Magdalene, Mary Magdalene and now Marianme are the same person.
Magdala, the birthplace of Marianme, was a vital trade centre close to the Sea of Galilee. The Marianme ossuary was the only one with a Greek inscription. The people from Magdala, according to scholars, they would have spoken Greek as well as Aramaic. One must remember that Women held high office in early Christianity with Mary Magdalene being seen as a senior apostle, on a par with Peter and the other apostles come disciples.
From the start of the 2nd-century male misogyny domination began and started to suppress early Christion writings that held women in senior Church roles. Also, they rejected two texts that held Mary Magdalene in the highest regard. The texts were the Gospel of Mary Magdalene and the Acts of Philip. Only fragments were known, with both thoughts to of been lost forever. However, in 1974 Prof. Francois Bovon of Harvard rediscovered a 700-year-old copy of the Acts of Philip, a mostly complete copy of the 4th-century text. It was found in the Xenophontos Monastery, on Mount Athos, Greece.
The Catholic Church, first through Pope Gregory I (490-604) cited The Magdalene as a prostitute, which was historically wrong and showed the church as an ascetic institution, which it is still to this day!
The gospel of John has a later addition story of an Adulteress. With no indication in the text that the unnamed woman is Magdalene, it is a later Christian tradition that has linked the adulteress to Mary Magdalene. The same can be said of the unnamed woman in Luke, labelled the sinner who anointed the feet of Jesus. Scholars today say that the three are all very different women. Nevertheless, the ascetic church has by all accounts never really said sorry for labelling The Magdalene as a Prostitute!
In the Acts of Philip, there is no mention of her previous life only that she is a Christian missionary who carries the title apostle, and is seen on the same level as aforesaid with the other apostles.
Tradition has Mary Magdalene travelling to France and dying there. However, in the 4th-century Acts of Philip, Marianme supposedly went home to Israel to the Jordan Valley and died in Jerusalem.
Science can now determine familial relationships between the various people in the Talpiot Tomb. Steven Cox, a forensic archaeologist, found valuable material inside the ossuaries inscribed Marianme and Yeshua bar Yosef. The samples were sent to the Lakehead University Paleo-DNA laboratory, Northwest Ontario, Canada. Which is one of only five labs that specialises in ancient DNA? The biologist running the test did not have names to the specimens samples only numbers.
The result showed the variation between the two sequences, from each individual and their variations between the two individuals (Yeshua and Marianme). They concluded that they were not related, they did not share the same mother, and the sample can not be from mother and child. Nor can they be brother and sister and because the two samples have come from the same familial tomb the biologist suspect that if they were unrelated would most likely be husband and wife.
For centuries people have speculated on Mary Magdalene’s relationship to Jesus and is seen in the canonical gospels as a very close follower of Jesus. Mary Magdalene appears with more frequency than other women in the canonical Gospels, is always a close follower of Jesus. Her presence at the crucifixion and Jesus’ tomb is consistent with the role of a grieving wife widowed. So Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married as the DNA results from the Talpiot ossuaries suggests.
The symbol over the entrance to the Jesus Family Tomb is an Inverted chevron with a small circle, and it is with the ten and missing ossuary that a new mystery begins. In October 2002 a chalky limestone ossuary surfaced from a private collection. It bore the Aramaic inscription James son, of Joseph brother of Jesus. The ossuary of James became a famous controversy a battle of scholars and science over the authenticity of the James ossuary. Most scholars say it is a forgery, with others saying a partial forgery, with the Brother of Jesus, added to the Inscription of James, son of Joseph. However, scholars speculated which tomb did the ossuary originate? So scientists took samples of the patina from the James ossuary foe analysis with those from the Jesus Tomb. Samples were taken to a Suffolk Crime Laboratory, which is a leading American CSI lab involved in modern-day crime mysteries. Their task was to test the patina from James ossuary and the patina from random samples and compared to the Talpiot ossuaries.
The findings that the element composition for the random samples did not match the James ossuary patina, but the patina from James matched them from the Jesus Family Tomb.
The signature or the fingerprint from the James ossuary conclusively matched, the tenth ossuary from the Jesus Family Tomb was a match. The statistical model the probability factor changes from 600 to 1 in favour of the tomb, to 30,000 to 1 strongly suggesting that this tomb belongs to the family of Jesus of Nazareth.
During the rush excavation in 1980, archaeologists removed from the Talpiot the last ossuary with the inscription. The ossuary belonged to a child! At the IAA Rockefeller Museum, the inscription translated as Yehuda bar Yeshua/Judah, son of Jesus.
The New Testament is silent and does not say that Jesus had a son, perhaps in this instance, archaeology forces us to throw a different light on the New Testament. As scholars are now asking the question, did the last child ossuary hold the remains of the son of Jesus and Mary Magdalene? So perhaps the unnamed beloved disciple referred to in the book of John is the son of Jesus. 26 When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman, here is your son,” [John 19:26 NIV]
Is Jesus asking his beloved disciple at the base of the cross to behold his mother? He then says to the Women—hold your son. Traditionally this scene has been understood as Jesus addressing Mary his mother—can this be later theology could it be that Jesus was talking to Mary Magdalene his wife asking her to protect their son.
What do you say, does this information make your belief stronger or not?
Cofion
Jero Jones
Article URL : https://breakingnewsandreligion.online/discuss/