DOCUMENTARY: Secrets Of The Jesus Tomb
FIVE'S intriguing religious documentary series opens with a fascinating examination of a mysterious discovery that may challenge accepted views of Christ’s life and death – and could even support wilder theories put forward in books such as The Da Vinci Code.
Experts have interpreted the 1980 discovery by archaeologists of a burial place containing several ossuaries – boxes of bones – inscribed with names identical to, or very like those of, Jesus’s family and disciples.
One of those names, it is suggested, could be taken to mean that Jesus did indeed father a child.
Theory and counter-theory abound, with varying levels of plausibility but there is certainly plenty to ponder.