@chaski Said
From the link: "....the earliest archaeological evidence of faith in Jesus’ resurrection.... they also provide the first evidence in Jerusalem of the people who would later be called Christians."
So, it wasn't Jesus' tomb but a tomb of someone who might have been a follower or early christian.
Perhaps a minor point... still a very interesting archeological find.
@someone_else Said
Yes, what Chaski said. The fish emblem wasn't used while Jesus was in ministry. It wasn't until Christians started being persecuted that they started using the fish.
I've corresponded with Dr. Tabor and read his stuff. He's much more precise and knowledgeable about this that the idiot's they assign to cover it.
First, be careful to read that it's the first archaeological LINK to evidence of FAITH in the resurrection, NOT the resurrection itself. This is one of two tombs that are part of the same complex, about 200 feet apart. The one they did a documentary on back in 2007 was accidentally opened and studied then, and the ossuaries were collected. This one was sealed and never opened. The first one had the ossuaries that could POSSIBLY be Jesus, his mother, wife and son. Jesus was a common name.
The importance of this tomb, which is being explored with remote cameras, shows symbolic evidence of belief in resurrection. The fish symbol, harkens to the Jonah and the whale (actually a "great fish" ) story from which Johan was vomited (resurrected) in 3 days. Thus the common fish symbol as representative of Jesus.
My question is, if Jesus was buried in the neighboring tomb, why is there a bone box if he was resurrected. On the other hand, why were there ossuaries in the neighboring tomb with symbols celebrating resurrection. If that question isn't answered in the book, I'll be trying to find out. He's very busy lately with his work in Israel, this book coming out, his professorship and another book that I'm even more excited about, on Paul in November. He has a blog, and a Facebook page at James Daniel Tabor, with several entries today.
Edit:
And actually one of the implications of the fish is that it was used before the persecutions. This tomb could be no later than 70 CE when the Romans destroyed the Temple and the Jews stopped using ossuaries.