Lost Tomb of Hsus?

Last night the The Discovery Channel premiered "The Lost Tomb of Jesus". A documentary the discovery of a tomb filled with caskets or 'ostuaries', some of which bears the name of Jesus and several of his family members.

The Hollywood elite, namely James Cameron who produced the documentary, is clearly trying to cash in on the Da Vinci Code-styled get-rich-quick scheme, but he's missed that particular bus. The documentary is filled with conjecture and pseudo science, but the biggest hurdle Cameron faces the assertion that it is extremely improbably that these the inscriptions on these ostuaries are purely coincidentally similar to the names of Jesus' real family.

In the tomb they found the following:

The first inscribed ossuary is Jesus son of Joseph. It’s very plain with no decoration, crudely written, and they interpret this as evidence that it’s Jesus’ of the Gospels because He was a humble man.
The Mary ossuary bears the Latinized form “Maria,” which they explain has come down in tradition as the name of Jesus’ mother. True, but the reliability of that tradition isn’t examined and neither is whether other Marys were sometimes called
this.
The Matthew ossuary is thought to be a family name on Mary’s side of the family based on the Luke genealogy. True, but then it was a common name in many families.
The Joseph ossuary uses the form Yose, which Mark uses for Jesus’ brother. This is the only ossuary found with this form of Joseph.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph are the ony names with direct ties to the Bible. The rest are tied to the Jesus family on the basis of speculation.
At this point you can see that they are building a case, step by step, with explanations at each step for the ossuaries being Jesus’ family, not just an average Jewish family. At every fork in the road they cobble together a rationale for choosing the fork that keeps the story alive, yet never is there anything like compelling proof for choosing that option.

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It sure seems compelling, but even the archaeologist who initially unearthed this tomb, back in the 80's, said the following:

"Their movie is not serious," Amos Kloner, the Bar Ilan University professor who led the excavation in the 1980s, told National Geographic News.
"They [say they] are 'discovering' things. But they haven't discovered anything. They haven't found anything. Everything had already been published.
"And there is no basis on which to make a story out of this or to identify this as the family of Jesus."

Further, as I mentioned before, the coincidence that the similar names can be found anywhere is not as great as Cameron would have you believe.

Suppose I told you there was a guy named Andrew and that in his family there was a boy named Zack and Zack's sister was named Hannah. Suppose then, I told you that Andrew's dad's name is David and Zack and Hannah's mom was named Annie. Suppose Andrew had two cousins named Darrin and David. And then I told you that the Andrew in question does indeed live in the East San Francisco Bay.

Who would you think I was talking about? It sure sounds an awful lot like me, doesn't it? Only, it's not me. It's my cousin, Chiaty's husband, Andrew S.

Andrew has a dad named David, a brother named Zack, a sister named Hannah, a mom named Annie, and I think somewhere in the mix is a "George" as well. (My father in-law is named George.) Darrin and David are Andrew S' cousins by marriage since Chiaty is their cousin.

So what are the chances that a family other than Jesus' can have such similar and familiar names? It's not that great, really.

And neither was the documentary, to be frank.