S8 Ep246: THE TALPIOT TOMB AND DNA EVIDENCE Colleague James Tabor. Discussing the Talpiot tomb, Tabor details ossuaries bearing names like "Jesus son of Joseph" and "Mariamne." He argues statistical clusters and potential DNA evidence suggest this is the Jesus fami
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🗓️ 26 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBSI on the world. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm John Batchel. |
| 0:08.0 | Spending time with the scholar and professor James Tabor. |
| 0:12.7 | The Lost Mary is the book, Rediscovering the Mother of Jesus. |
| 0:16.3 | All the storytelling 2,000 years ago, we now come to the 21st century. |
| 0:23.0 | And the discovery of ushires in jerusalem and paul james is set in one of the ushires and contemplated where he is |
| 0:32.6 | james what is an ushuary and what was discovered and what do we need to know? |
| 0:39.6 | Well, I didn't sit in the ushery, but I did sit in the tomb where the ushires were. |
| 0:45.8 | Yes, yes, please. |
| 0:46.8 | You can edit that. |
| 0:48.5 | James has been in the tomb. |
| 0:49.3 | Why don't you say that again? |
| 0:50.4 | James has been in the tomb with the ushires, where the ashwires were found. |
| 0:56.0 | Please continue. |
| 0:57.5 | So in 1980, just before Easter, interesting date, who knows, while history repeats itself, |
| 1:05.0 | a bulldozer discovered a tomb south of Jerusalem in a place called Talpiot. |
| 1:16.6 | Anciently, it has the name Aramathia, means two hills. Joseph is apparently from that area of Arimathea, the two hills. |
| 1:21.6 | You can see it south of Jerusalem if you stand on Mount Zion and look south. |
| 1:25.6 | So this tomb had an interesting set of names. |
| 1:30.3 | The Israelis who discovered it at the time just thought, well, the names are common, |
| 1:35.3 | you know, but yes, I'll give you a few of the names. |
| 1:38.3 | Jesus, son of Joseph. |
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