James Cameron Finds Jesus, Literally???

March 2nd, 2007 in Directors, Documentary, TV

James Cameron took an extended break from making films about aliens, creatures, gun-blazing spies, and sinking ships, to take on Jesus Christ. But rather than bore us with a pointless dramatic portrayal, Cameron decided to look into the actuality of the bag man. On the Discovery Channel on Sunday evening, the documentary entitled The Lost Tomb of Jesus investiagates a series of ossuaries discovered in Jerusalem in 1980.

Basically, the documentary employs a host of forensic, carbon dating, and other CSI-related paraphenalia to argue that one of the ossuaries contained the bones of Jesus. Not only that, but inscriptions on the tomb seem to suggest that the tombs contain the remains of Jesus, son of Joesph, Mariamene (possibly Mary Magdelene), James the Just, and most controversially, Judah, son of Jesus. While its not clear if the documentary addresses criticism of these claims, there are plenty of doubting Thomases.

Naturally, the Christians have a bone or two to pick (ha-ha). For this theory may contradict the notion of Jesus Christ’s physical resurrection. Cameron and crew have already preempted this by claiming that the documentary

“does not challenge the Resurrection. It asks viewers to consider the possibility that the Resurrection occurred from a second tomb.”

Nevertheless, there are still criticisms that the scrawlings on the tombs are too vague to be any real confirmation of Jesus, especially when the names were quite common at the time.

The documentary should be worth a watch, although rumour has it that the original director’s ending of Jesus rising from his tomb to chase Sarah Connor into a electronics factory has been cut. And have you noticed that the initials of James Cameron and Jesus Christ are the same? Spooky.

Pic taken from LAist.

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