From a collar wearing Nazarene (currently pastoring a United Methodist Church).

When the Most High introduced himself to the israelites(not the world) he spoke in their native language. Hebrew. When the angel came to mary and joseph he spoke their native language. Hebrew. So unless we learn Hebrew then we shall be deceived in the scripture thru translation. A Jew was not from yehudi(jacob) as mordecia was called a jew. A jew was a citizen of judea. Learn about john hyrcanus and how the edomites gained control of judea thru rome and this is how Herod the edomite became king and killed the judaite priests and replaced them with pharisees. This is the time btwn the old & new testament.

I think that my above article is enough to establish the mainstream scholarly assessment of the Talpiot Tomb and the claim that it was connected to Jesus of Nazareth, so I won’t bother getting into an argument about that in the comment thread.

I’m more interested in your dogmatic claim that God doesn’t “do magic and step in to over ride His perfect creation” because he “doesn’t throw His creation curveballs.” That would be an entirely reasonable dogma coming from, say, a deist–though it would still be a totally unproven universal negative. But coming from you it seems really baffling. After all, you aren’t a deist; you consider yourself a devout, Torah-observant Jew. And as a religiously serious Jew, you clearly do think that God has chosen to “over-ride” the general workings of his “perfect creation”–and that in a way that some might consider “magic.”

Think of Moses’s encounter with the burning bush that burned but did not burn up (Exo. 3:1-4); think of Moses’s staff which turned into a snake and back again (Exo. 4:1-5, 7:8-12); think of the parting of the Red Sea that resulted in a wall of water on each side of the Israelites’ path (Exo. 14:15-22); think of God pushing around the molecules on the original stone tablets as he inscribed them with the Ten Commandments with his own “finger” (Exo. 31:8, Deut. 9:10); think of the ground opening up and swallowing Korah (Num. 16:28-34); etc, etc, etc. In all of these cases the Torah claims that God decided to “over-ride” the normal workings of his “perfect creation”, effectively throwing creation a “curveball”.

Therefore, as a religiously serious Jew, you cannot consistently maintain the anti-divine-intervention dogma you put forward in your comment. You do in fact think that God has, at times, overridden the normal workings of the world; perhaps he did so on Easter Sunday.

As the Orthodox Jewish scholar Pinchas Lapide wrote in his book, The Resurrection of Jesus, “If God’s power which was active in Elisha is great enough to resuscitate even a dead person who was thrown into the tomb of the prophet (2 Kings 13:20ff.), then the bodily resurrection of a crucified Jew also would not be inconceivable. ‘Or have I no power to deliver?’ (Isa. 50:2), asks the Lord of those who are hard of believing.”

See the cyclist understood that the man in the 1st century was just a man and he like all other men would have bones. A child will also understand this.

You might also look at the verdict in the James Ossuary case. That ossuary was found to be authentic along with it’s inscription and also found to be from the Talpiot Tomb. Scientists know. Mathematicians know. But the bias is easily seen from the side of the soon to be extinct, (remember a thousand years is as a day), purveyors of a mythical g-dman.

By the way, the real man was the Messiah and all those that follow his teaching of following Torah have life.