Notes:

Notes:

1. Simcha Jacobovici and Charles Pellegrino, The Jesus Family Tomb (San Francisco: Harper Collins, 2007).

2. Amos Kloner, “A Tomb with Inscribed Ossuaries in East Talpiyot, Jerusalem,” 'Atiquot, Vol. 29 (1996), 17–19. Cf. also Christopher A. Rollston, “Prosopography and the Talpiyot Yeshua Family Tomb: Pensees of a Palaeographer,” SBL Forum, 2007, <http://www.sbl-site.org/Article.aspx?ArticleId=649>(26 March 2007); James Tabor, The Jesus Dynasty: The Hidden History of Jesus, His Royal Family, and the Birth of Christianity (N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, 2006), 23.

3. James Tabor, “DNA and the Talpiot Ossuaries,” Jesus Dynasty Blog, 2007, http://jesusdynasty.com/blog/2007/03/13/dna-and-thetalpiot-ossuaries/

4. Discovery Channel Interview, “The Lost Tomb of Jesus: A Critical Look,” March 4, 2007, chaired by Ted Koppel.

5. Jacobovici and Pellegrino, 168. Cf. also Stuart Laidlaw, “Christ's Tomb Found? Canadian Filmmaker Claims Burial Boxes Belonged to Christ's Family,” Toronto Star, February 25, 2007, 2.

6. Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code: A Novel (N.Y.: Doubleday, 2003), Chapters 56, 58.

7. Jacobovici and Pellegrino, see especially 76, 95. For another similarity here, see Brown, 249.

8. Tabor, The Jesus Dynasty, 33.

9. Jacobovici and Pellegrino, 210.

10. Jacobovici and Pellegrino, 182, 188.

11. Tabor's email to colleagues, February 28, 2007, 1–2.

12. Tabor's email to colleagues, February 28, 2007, 2–3.

13. “Statistics Overview” from Andrey Feuerverger's analysis, Discovery Channel Website.

14. Tabor, “The Jesus Dynasty Blog,” March 24, 2007, 1–4.

15. Ibid., 3–4.

16. Laidlaw, “Christ's Tomb Found?,” 1–2.

17. “Theological Considerations,” Discovery Channel.

18. Ibid., The italics are original, and the last two sentences were written in bold type.

19. Discovery Channel Interview, “The Lost Tomb of Jesus: A Critical Look,” March 4, 2007, chaired by Ted Koppel.

20. Tabor, The Jesus Dynasty, 230–233, 262–266; both quotations are from page 264.

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