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...Templars know about the family of Jesus? Now, we were running into Da Vinci Code territory. Jacobovici grinned enigmatically and glanced at his watch. "Have to run," he said, rising. Back at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the many flames of faith were burning bright...
...this really Christ's tomb? Like millions of viewers, I'd seen the Discovery Channel documentary The Lost Tomb of Jesus, which raises the possibility that he was buried in the hills outside Jerusalem, alongside Joseph, his mother Mary, his supposed wife Mary Magdalene, and a boy, aged 10-12 years, named Judah, who could, the filmmakers suggested, have been a son sired by Jesus with Mary Magdalene. So, I decided to take a closer look...
...Holy Sepulcher winds down the Via Dolorosa, the route to Jesus' crucifixion. Nowadays, the route is packed with pushy vendors selling Holy Water, T-shirts championing the Israeli army, sandals and gaudy junk from India. Some reports claim that the site of the church was chosen after the Dowager Queen Helena had ordered the torture of a few rabbis to reveal the location of Christ's crucifixion, and that they may have deliberately given false information...
...suburb of limestone apartment buildings on a hillside with pines and rose gardens. There were no tour buses, nobody hawking candles or postcards, just a few Israelis out for a stroll with their kids and dogs. I asked one dog-walker if he could direct us to the Jesus Family tomb, and he shrugged...
...Jacobovici, finding the controversial tombs - debunked by one Biblical scholar as "archeo-porn" - shouldn't shake the foundations of Christian faith at all. He told TIME: "For millions of people, this is inspirational. It could prove that Jesus wasn't a myth - he really existed. People have come up to me and said their faith has been reinforced...