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Jason A. Staples is a Ph.D. Candidate in Ancient Mediterranean Religions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a football analyst for NoleDigest.com (FoxSports/Scout.com), and a professional voice over talent. He has a B.A. in Religion and an M.A. in Religions of Western Antiquity from Florida State University. Read more »

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Stick Man Jonah More Unprecedented Than Previously Realized

on May 1, 2012
Talpiot fish whale Jonah

Beginning with the first publication of James Tabor’s B&I piece on Talpiot Tomb B, the Tabor/Jacobovici theory that this is the tomb of the earliest Christian disciples has hinged in large part upon their identification of the “sign of Jonah,” a nose-down fish spitting out a stick-man Jonah, on the front of one of the [...] Read more »

Jacobovici and Team Don’t Understand Religious Studies, Don’t Do Their Research

on April 30, 2012
Photo courtesy of John McGinley, the Publicity Graphics guy from the Talpiot TV show.

Simcha Jacobovici and now two people from the production team behind the TV show about the Patio Tomb Ossuaries keep insinuating that the only reason scholars are not convinced by their conclusions is due to the various scholars’ theological biases or desires. For example, a few years ago, in his defense against critics of the [...] Read more »

Talpiot Tomb B: On Connected and Unconnected Lines

on April 24, 2012

The blogosphere has yet again been in quite good form with lots of folks demonstrating the numerous problems with the latest claims about the presence of the name “Yonah” (Jonah) etched in the supposed stick-man at the bottom of the vessel fish at the center of the discussion of the Talpiot Tomb B ossuaries. Bob [...] Read more »

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