March
2007
Jesus Tomb?
by Meredith Efken
Anybody been following this bizarre story? A group of five bone boxes have been found in Israel, bearing inscriptions that have lead a couple of researchers to conclude they are the bones of the Virgin Mary, Mary of Magdalene, Jesus Christ, and his son Judah, as well as the disciple Matthew.
My friend, Randy Ingermanson, who has a PhD in theoretical physics as well as being an all-around brilliant math guy (and a fabulous novelist, to boot!) has done a really fascinating statistical analysis of the likelihood of these bones belonging to the people that the researchers claim they belong to. It’s definitely worth a look–and don’t worry, if you’re not a math person (I’m not) you’ll still be able to follow the argument.
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I have a piece rattling around in my head about this - some of it has been put down on paper (okay, computer memory) and I’m not quite sure yet where it is going. If it ever gels, I will post it.
thanks for the linked story.
barbara
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Thanks for the link. A student and I were discussing this yesterday and Randy answered some of our questions!!
I still wonder if they ever considered how common the name of Jesus was back then, also.
DUH, Randy had that…scroll down before commenting, Pattie ! LOL