ASOR is pleased to announce that it has made an
issue of Near Eastern Archaeology (NEA 69:3/4 [2006]) available for free on JSTOR for the next month. This issue of NEA contains articles by leading scholars that examine the hypothesis that a Talpiot Tomb belonged to Jesus’ family. The issue contains articles by Eric M. Meyers, Shimon Gibson, Sandra Scham, Christopher Rollston, and Stephen J. Pfann. The issue also contains an extensive response by James D. Tabor.
The following is a table of contents with links to the individual articles:
- “The Jesus Tomb Controversy: An Overview” by Eric M. Meyers
- “Is the Talpiot Tomb Really the Family Tomb of Jesus?” by Shimon Gibson
- “Trial by Statistics” by Sandra Scham
- “Inscribed Ossuaries: Personal Names, Statistics, and Laboratory Test” by Christopher Rollston
- “Mary Magdalene Has Left the Room: A Suggested New Reading of Ossuary CJO 701″ by Stephen J. Pfann
- “Testing a Hypothesis” by James D. Tabor
Those interested in ASOR’s journals (BASOR, JCS, and NEA) can found all of these journals online on JSTOR. Individual and institutional subscriptions are available. Also, professional memberships in ASOR are available that give individuals online access to all of ASOR’s journals from the present all the way back to 1920. Please e-mail asormemb@bu.edu for more information.