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March 16, 2007 By Andreas Köstenberger

Jesus Tomb: Lessons

Here are some lessons we can learn from the Jesus tomb saga:

1. First do the research, then make the movie.

2. Don’t just hire consultants who you know already agree with you; what’s the value of that?

3. Don’t rely uncritically on the work of others, even experts in the field, especially when your central thesis depends on it.

4. Avoid getting infatuated with your own theory so that you are no longer able to evaluate the evidence objectively.

5. Don’t be tempted to “follow the money”; follow the evidence instead. Be on a quest for truth, not fame or fortune.

6. Don’t circumvent the peer review process and address yourself directly to the public; your scholarly reputation will almost certainly suffer if you do.

7. Don’t persist in a state of denial when you’ve been proven wrong. Admit your mistake; everyone else already knows it anyway. Denying the obvious will only make you look even more ridiculous.

8. Don’t miss the subtle clues—a backwards “N,” a supposed “U” that looks a lot more like an “I”—even if it requires you to change your theory.

9. Be modest in stating your case. Don’t overreach.

10. Don’t use statistics or DNA evidence to pad a weak case.

11. Don’t confuse your theory with the facts.

12. Develop a healthy respect for the need for expertise in a certain area before making confident pronouncement of things you know little about.

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Culture, Jesus

Comments

  1. Kevin Stilley says

    March 18, 2007 at 6:42 pm

    An excellent list. Thanks.

  2. Johnny Callahan says

    March 31, 2007 at 5:47 am

    Hello,
    A question out of context. If you were to write a dissertation on JOhn what are some of the number of issues that will be of interest to you?

    From a reader/student who reads your blog frequently and is passionate about John’s Gospel.

    Thanks

  3. Brad says

    April 24, 2007 at 12:13 am

    When Jesus meet mary magdalene at the well, she has own husband. If Jesus was on that tomb means He was not risen from the dead. And the tomb was a rich man tomb, not as this people claim. On that time they are under persecution as Christian, how they can buried properly those people in a proper manner when they were persecuted and some of them are exiled to other places. The bone that they found was merely the true husband of mary when she meet Jesus on the well not Jesus Himself. Because Jesus not remained on the tomb He is risen from the dead.

  4. Brad says

    April 24, 2007 at 12:20 am

    Read on Jhon 4:1-18.”4:15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.” 4:16 He said to her, “Go call your husband and come back here.” 4:17 The woman replied, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “Right you are when you said, ‘I have no husband,’ 4:18 for you have had five husbands and the man you are living with now is not your husband. This you said truthfully!”. Means that true mary magdalene was already married with somebody. And Mary magdalene was there when she meet Jesus when He rise from the dead. And when you believe that Jesus Christ did not raise from the dead your most mesirable man on the earth.

  5. Andreas Köstenberger says

    April 24, 2007 at 9:18 pm

    Brad: The woman at the well was almost certainly not Mary Magdalene. Mary Magdalene was from the Galilean fishing village of Magdala, while the woman at the well was a Samaritan woman. But I certainly agree that Jesus did not remain in the tomb but rose from the dead as he and the Scriptures predicted.

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Dr. Andreas Köstenberger is Founder of Biblical Foundations™ and Research Professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology and Director of the Center for Biblical Studies at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author, editor, or translator of over 50 books on a large variety of topics. He is also the editor of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society and several series on New Testament Greek (EGGNT) and biblical theology (BTNT, BTCP). Dr. Kostenberger and his wife Margaret have four children.
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