Jerusalem Bound & The Jesus Dynasty in French
I fly to Jerusalem tomorrow for some preliminary excavation work on Mt. Zion (see http:digmountzion.com) with Dr. Shimon Gibson and a team of our students and staff. I will be posting some things next week about our work in that area and what it tells us about Herodian Jerualem and the last days of Jesus.
I am working on what I hope will become some significant new insights on the accounts of the “empty tomb” in our four New Testament Gospels, as well as the Gospel of Peter. In thinking through these materials in the light of the Talpiot tomb several “lights” have gone on in my thinking. I have studied and pondered the “resurrection” accounts for several decades but what I am going to suggest, as far as I know, has not been proposed before.
The French version of my book, just released and titled, La véritable histoire de Jésus is drawing quite a bit of attention in France, as is the subject of the Talpiot tomb. Despite the “modest” title, which I as an author have no say in, the French translation was done by the imcomparable Bernard Cohen and probably reads better than the original English now that it is in French. He did such a masterful job. I am reading the book in French with great pleasure and it is strange to encounter it in a way that puts distance between me as the author and the expression of my basic ideas in such a lovely language.
More later, from Jerusalem…