The Jesus Dynasty / James TaborThe Jesus Dynasty Blog by the author, Dr. James D. TaborWeek Two: Digging Mt Zion- June 30, 2008 The second week of our summer season (June 22-27) was filled with much excitement and accomplishment. Our excellent team continued to bond together, gain skills, and exude great enthusiasm. As some of you know who have done a bit of archaeology, team members quickly become attached to given areas of an excavation and more or ...http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/06/30/week-two-digging-mt-zion/ Week One: Digging at Mt Zion- June 22, 2008 We just completed our first week (June 15-19) of the JuneJuly six week season of the Mt Zion excavations. Things have gotten off to a very good start with great promise of things to come. Most of our Team members have come for two weeks, so we will have another group arriving June 29th, and ...http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/06/22/week-one-digging-at-mt-zion/ Digging Mt Zion: An Opportunity and A Challenge- June 5, 2008 June 4, 2008 One of the fields that has become absolutely pivotal for historical work on early Christianity is archaeology&8211;in other words, the material evidence of our human pasts. I was trained at the University of Chicago as a textual scholar, but as all of my readers know, about 20 years ago I began to involve ...http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/06/04/digging-mt-zion-an-opportunity-and-a-challenge... Theres Something About Mariamne with an N- June 1, 2008 One of the most fascinating names inscribed on the ossuaries in the Talpiot &8220;Jesus Family&8221; tomb is the unusual and rare form of the Greek inscription for a &8220;Mary,&8221; as first published by the learned L. Y. Rahmani in 1994: MARIAMNENOU (HE) MARA: of Mariamene, who is (also called) Mara IAA 80.500, CJO 701: L. Y. Rahmani ...http://www.jesusdynasty.com/blog/2008/06/01/theres-something-about-mariamne-with-an-n/ |