The Historical Christ

[LEDO]

"I DID see an interesting documentary about an ossuary possibly containing the bones of Jesus' family."

Padraic they dont put entire families in an ossuary it is just a cement box that is used after someone dies.Traditionally after about a year they disenter the body and collect the bones and put them in the ossuary.

Ledo I agree with Padraic I dont like the idea of using the gospels as historical evidence for serious archealogical studies since I too beleive they are nothing more than myths and totally unreliable.

Here is a decent article on the Jesus family tomb:
http://benwitherington.blogspot.com/2007...heory.html

There were 9 ossuaries in one tomb. There was a spot for a tenth one. It is believed the James ossuary was the tenth one from that same tomb.

There are elements of cosmic myths in the gospel texts, although Mark, the oldest gosepel has the least mythic elements. There are other writings besides gospels, and a whole religion sprang from something.

Dilmun was specifically mentioned in ancient Babylon as the name of their "Eden." Dilmun was Eden, you can bank on it.

The mythical aspect of Christ was based on the constellations seen right before sunrise during his birth and crucifixion celebrated dates. Hence Jesus was solar. YHWH was lunar.