Notes
Notes
1. Mark Goodacre, “The Statistical Case for the Identity of the ‘Jesus Family Tomb,’ ” NT Gateway Weblog, March 1, 2007, 1 (http://ntgateway.com/weblog/2007/03/ statistical-case-for-identity-of-jesus-.html, downloaded on March 6, 2007).
2. Andrey Feuerverger, “Dear Statistical Colleagues,” March 12, 2007, the quotations appear on pp. 1, 2 (posted at: http://fisher.ustat.toronto.edu/andrey/OfficeHrs.txt and downloaded on March 23, 2007.
3. Discovery Channel Interview with Ted Koppel, “The Lost Tomb of Jesus: A Critical Look,” March 4, 2007).
5. Joe D'Mello, “The Correct Interpretation of Dr. Andrey Feuerverger's 1:600 Odds Calculation,” NT Gateway Weblog, March 2, 2007, 1–5.
6. Joseph Fitzmyer, book review of Simcha Jacobovici and Charles Pellegrino, The Jesus Family Tomb in America: The National Catholic Weekly, date?, 3. (http:/www.americamagazine.org/BookReview.cfm?articleTypeI=31&textID=5404&issue, downloaded on April 2, 2007).
7. Goodacre, “The Statistical Case for the Identity of the ‘Jesus Family Tomb,’ NT Gateway, 2.
8. James Tabor, email to select colleagues and friends, February 28, 2007, 2–3.
9. “Dominus Flevit,” 2 (downloaded on March 22, 2007); email from Michael S. Heiser, March 13, 2007.
10. Stephen Pfann, “The Improper Application of Statistics in ‘The Lost Tomb of Jesus,’ ” University of the Holy Land, 2007, 1–2. Pfann also argues the following issues: most ancient Jewish tombs have already been looted, not all ossuaries have been saved even after being discovered, and Rahmani notes that only about 25 percent of ossuaries have names on them.
11. Joe Zias, “Deconstructing the Second and Hopefully Last Coming of Simcha and the BAR Crowd,” March 7, 2007, 2–3.
12. Amos Kloner, “A Tomb with Inscribed Ossuaries in East Talpiyot, Jerusalem,” 'Antiqot, Vol 29 (1996), 22.
13. Christopher A. Rollston, “Prosopography and the Talpiyot Yeshua Family Tomb: Pensees of a Paleographer,” Society of Biblical Liturature Forum, March 13, 2007, 3–4.
14. Witherington, “Problems Multiply for Jesus Tomb Theory,” February 28, 2007, 5.
15. Zias, “Deconstructing the Second and Hopefully Last Coming of Simcha and the BAR Crowd,” 2.
16. Witherington, “Problems Multiply for Jesus Tomb Theory,” 1.
18. Kloner, “A Tomb with Inscribed Ossuaries in East Talpiyot, Jerusalem,” 21.
19. James Tabor, “The Talpiot Tomb: An Overview,” The Jesus Dynasty Blog, March 24, 2007, 2–3.
20. Pfann, “The Improper Application of Statistics in ‘The Lost Tomb of Jesus,’ ” 3. For some of the scholars who agree that Mariamene is not Mary Magdalene, see Jodi Magness, “Has the Tomb of Jesus Been Discovered?” in Society of Biblical Literature Forum, March, 2007, 4; Rollston, “Prosopography and the Talpiyot Yeshua Family Tomb: Pensees of a Paleographer,” 3–4; Goodacre, “The Statistical Case for the Identity of the ‘Jesus Family Tomb,’ ” 1, 3; Michael Barber, “7 Reasons Cameron's Theory is Sinking,” February 27, 2007, 4; Chris Rosebrough, “Archaeological Identity Theft: The Lost Tomb of Jesus Fails to Make the Grade,” Extreme Theology, 2–3;
21. Discovery Channel Interview with Ted Koppel, “The Lost Tomb of Jesus: A Critical Look,” March 4, 2007.
22. Goodacre, “The Statistical Case for the Identity of the “Jesus Family Tomb,” 1.
23. Rollston, “Prosopography and the Talpiyot Yeshua Family Tomb: Pensees of a Paleographer,” p. 4; Rosebrough, “Archaeological Identity Theft: The Lost Tomb of Jesus Fails to Make the Grade,” 4.
24. L.Y. Rahmani, A Catalog of Jewish Ossuaries in the Collections of the State of Israel (Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities and Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1994), No. 705.
25. Simcha Jacobovici and Charles Pellegrino, The Jesus Family Tomb (N.Y.: Harper Collins, 2007), 78.
26. “Statistics Overview” from Andrey Feuerverger's analysis, Discovery Channel Website.
27. David Horovitz, Question and Answer interview with Amos Kloner: “Kloner: A Great Story, but Nonsense,” Jerusalem Post, February 27, 2007, 1; Ben Witherington, “The Jesus Tomb Show—Biblical Archaeologists Reject Discovery Channel Show's Claims,” March 5, 2007, 4.
28. Randy Ingermanson, “Statistics and the ‘Jesus Family Tomb,’ ” March 3, 2007, 2–3 (available at http://www.ingermanson.com/jesus/art/stats.php, downloaded on March 13, 2007).
29. Jacobovici and Pellegrino, The Jesus Family Tomb, 75; also 77.
30. Cf. Ingermanson, “Statistics and the ‘Jesus Family Tomb,’” 8 with Jacobovici and Pellegrino, The Jesus Family Tomb, 82.
31. Ingermanson, “Statistics and the ‘Jesus Family Tomb,’” 9.
34. Goodacre, “The Statistical Case for the Identity of the ‘Jesus Family Tomb,’” 1.
35. Examples include Magness, “Has the Tomb of Jesus Been Discovered?” 4; Goodacre, “The Statistical Case for the Identity of the ‘Jesus Family Tomb,’” 1; Witherington, “The Jesus Tomb? ‘Titanic’ Talpiot Tomb Theory Sunk from the Start,” 4; Ingermanson, “Statistics and the ‘Jesus Family Tomb,’” 6, 9; Rosebrough, “Archaeological Identity Theft: The Lost Tomb of Jesus Fails to Make the Grade,” especially 2; Barber, “7 Reasons Cameron's Theory is Sinking,” 1–2; cf. Rollston, “Prosopography and the Talpiyot Yeshua Family Tomb: Pensees of a Paleographer,” 3.
36. Ingermanson, “Statistics and the ‘Jesus Family Tomb,’” 6.
37. Witherington, “Problems Multiply for Jesus Tomb Theory,” 1–2.
40. Simcha Jacobovici, “Probability,” found at: http://www.jesusfamilytomb.com/evidence/probability.html (downloaded on April 8, 2007).
41. Emphasis by Goodacre in, “The Statistical Case for the Identity of the “Jesus Family Tomb,” 3.
42. See especially Rollston, “Prosopography and the Talpiyot Yeshua Family Tomb: Pensees of a Paleographer,” 3.
43. Ingermanson, “Statistics and the ‘Jesus Family Tomb,’” 6,10.
44. Rosebrough, “Archaeological Identity Theft: The Lost Tomb of Jesus Fails to Make the Grade,” 4, 6.
45. Randy Ingermanson and Jay Cost, “Bayes' Theorem and the ‘Jesus Family Tomb,’ ” March 25, 2007.
47. Incredibly, in the article “Bayes' Theorem and the ‘Jesus Family Tomb,’ ” Ingermanson and Cost provide an Excel spreadsheet where interested readers can answer the same “fuzzy factors” and create their own odds!
48. Kloner, “A Tomb with Inscribed Ossuaries in East Talpiyot, Jerusalem,” 21.
49. Witherington, “Problems Multiply for Jesus Tomb Theory,” 1, 4–5.
50. Magness as quoted in Christopher Mims, “Special Report: Has James Cameron Found Jesus's Tomb or Is It Just a Statistical Error?” Scientific American, March 2, 2007, 3; Witherington, “The Jesus Tomb? ‘Titanic’ Talpiot Tomb Theory Sunk from the Start,” 4; Michael Licona, “First Person: Has the Family Tomb of Jesus been Found?” BP News, February 27, 2007, 1).
51. Alan Segal as quoted in Lisa Miller and Joanna Chen, “The Tomb of Jesus Christ?” Newsweek, March 5, 2007, 3.
53. Segal as quoted by Lisa Miller and Joanna Chen, “The Tomb of Jesus Christ?” 3; Magness as quoted in Mims, “Special Report: Has James Cameron Found Jesus's Tomb or Is It Just a Statistical Error?” 3; Licona, “First Person: Has the Family Tomb of Jesus been Found?” 1.
54. James D. Tabor, “Two Burials of Jesus of Nazareth and the Talpiot Yeshua Tomb,” Society of Biblical Literature Forum, March, 2007, 2.
55. Zias, “Deconstructing the Second and Hopefully Last Coming of Simcha and the BAR Crowd,” 3.
56. Witherington, “Problems Multiply for Jesus Tomb Theory,” 2.