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From ChatGPT 7/13/2026. Prompt: In tombs in Jerusalem in the time of Jesus, when bones were moved to an ossuary, what is the name of the narrow slots where the ossuaries were stored? Include all sources in line and with links when available. The narrow storage spaces in Jewish rock-cut tombs where ossuaries were placed […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains Terry Traster’s 7/8/2026, response to my comments at Tabor’s Circle site. Along with his comments as pasted below he attached a PDF for the book (500+ pages) he references: Lexicon of Jewish Names in Late Antiquity:Palestine 330 BCE – 200 CE. That file named “Tal Ilan Lexicon.pdf” is in the Names in […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains extracts from The Geochemistry of Intrusive Sediment Sampled from the 1st Century CE Inscribed Ossuaries of James and the Talpiot Tomb, Jerusalem by Aryeh E. Shimron, Moshe Shirav, Kevin T. Kilty, Ludwik Halicz1, Rolf B. Pedersen, Harald Furnes. A PDF copy of the report is in the James Tabor/James Ossuary directory. The […]
Continue ReadingA Lead Isotope Connection: The Talpiot Jesus Tomb and the Ancient Sepphoris/Nazareth Water System. Video by James Tabor, 2025 A Tale of Two Tombs-Part Two: The James Ossuary & The Talpiot Jesus Tomb by James Tabor, 2022 A Tale of Two Tombs–Part One:The Tomb of the Shroud by James Tabor, 2022 The Geochemistry of Intrusive […]
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