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The Church of the Holy Sepulcre was built more than 300 years after
the death of Jesus. The spot was picked at random. No one knows where
Jesus was buried.
This story is religious wishful thinking.
Joshua2
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Kris Millegan wrote:
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> <A HREF="http://www.sightings.com/ufo2/jesus.htm">SIGHTINGS</A>
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> SIGHTINGS
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> Opening the Tomb of Jesus
> By David Yount
> � 1999 Scripps Howard News Service
> 2-16-99
>
> The opening of Jesus' tomb in Jerusalem may be imminent, and if
> Christendom is not enthralled by the prospect, it is little wonder. The
> whole point of the Christian faith is that the tomb is empty. As the
> angel announced, "He is not here; he has risen."
>
> Still, there is expectancy that the tomb will reveal artwork or other
> signs of veneration by the earliest believers in Christ's resurrection.
> No one has laid eyes on the tomb for nearly two centuries, and the dawn
> of the third Christian millennium seems to be a fitting time to
> rediscover the site.
>
> The tomb is believed to rest within an edicule (or "little house")
> within Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulcher. The surrounding shrine
> is an ornate 19th century construction in danger of collapse. It was
> damaged by fire in 1808 and further weakened by an earthquake in 1927,
> after which a makeshift framework of steel girders was erected to prop
> it up.
>
> The reason the grave has gone so long unopened is because competing
> church authorities with rights over the sepulcher have seldom agreed on
> anything. But they did authorize a new dome in 1996 and now plan
> extensive internal renovations.
>
> Martin Biddle, a 62-year-old Oxford professor of medieval archaeology,
> predicts the next step will be to bring down and rebuild the edicule,
> exposing the tomb. Biddle and his wife have spent a decade surveying the
> site, using ancient sources and modern photogrammetry. They are
> convinced that beneath four internal coverings is the burial place
> excavated by the Emperor Constantine in 325.
>
> "Originally the tomb was burrowed into a rocky hill slope," Biddle
> recently told Stuart Wavell of the Sunday Times of London. "Constantine
> cut away all the rock except a plug containing the rock-cut tomb. It was
> that plug which he embellished with marble decoration, and the remains
> of which are inside the edicule."
>
> Constantine's shrine survived for 600 years before its destruction in
> 1009. Since then, there have been three further constructions enclosing
> the tomb.
>
> "Once the outer skin is off," Biddle predicts, "I think that will leave
> a kind of jagged tooth, which will be the wreck of the previous edicule.
> Then, poking out of that will be the remains of the original rock-cut
> tomb, about five feet high. It will probably include a shelf sticking
> out from a rock wall."
>
> The tomb appears to have been accessible to believers for a century
> following the crucifixion, until Hadrian had it covered with rubble to
> erect a pagan temple in 135. Then, about 30 years before Constantine's
> excavation, the scholar Eusebius located Golgotha, the place of Jesus'
> crucifixion, leading the emperor's engineers to discover the gravesite.
>
> Biddle does not believe the tomb will tell us anything we do not already
> know about Jesus. "I believe Jesus was a historical figure who is very
> well-evidenced," he says. "Not many people have four different, almost
> contemporary biographies that survive."
>
> David Yount's latest book is ''Spiritual Simplicity'' (Simon &
> Schuster). Visit him at www.erols.com/dyount.
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