According to a soon-to-be-published report by James D. Tabor, professor and chair of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, complementing a new book and Discovery Channel documentary in concert with filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici:

"The archaeological examination by robotic camera of an intact first century tomb in Jerusalem has revealed a set of limestone Jewish ossuaries or "bone boxes" that are engraved with a rare Greek inscription and a unique iconographic image that the scholars involved identify as distinctly Christian."

"The four-line Greek inscription on one ossuary refers to God "raising up" someone and a carved image found on an adjacent ossuary shows what appears to be a large fish with a human stick figure in its mouth, interpreted by the excavation team to be an image evoking the biblical story of Jonah."

"The tomb in question is dated prior to 70 CE, when ossuary use in Jerusalem ceased due to the Roman destruction of the city…"

"Adding to the controversy is the tomb's close proximity to a second tomb, discovered in 1980. This tomb, dubbed by some "The Jesus Family Tomb," contained inscribed ossuaries that some scholars associate with Jesus and his family, including one that reads "Jesus, son of Joseph."

"Context is everything in archaeology," Tabor pointed out. "These two tombs, less than 200 feet apart, were part of an ancient estate, likely related to a rich family of the time. We chose to investigate this tomb because of its proximity to the so-called 'Jesus tomb,' not knowing if it would yield anything unusual."

"The tomb containing the new discoveries is a modest sized, carefully carved rock cut cave tomb typical of Jerusalem in the period from 20 BCE until 70 CE. "

The touted "Christian find" is "a series of images on ossuary 6, including the large image of a fish with a figure seeming to come out of its mouth," on one of a group of ossuaries with Greek (Hellenist) inscriptions.

It's astonishing to me that Prof. Tabor continues to blur and confuse Christianity with rabbinic Pharisee Judaism of the 1^st century N^әtzâr•imꞋ , which is prerequisite to suggesting that Yon•âhꞋ  ha-Nâ•viꞋ  could be a "Christian" icon despite the universally-recognized dating that this prophet lived and wrote some seven centuries B.C.E.!!!

Likewise, Prof. Tabor seems unaware that "resurrection" to a "second life" has always been an accepted concept, albeit dramatically different from the Christian supernatural reformulation, dating back in Tor•âhꞋ  at least as far as the A•qeid•âhꞋ !

If this find is everything Prof. Tabor and his team think that it is, and that is far from settled, what has been released so far may be related to the rabbinic Pharisee-N^әtzâr•imꞋ  (or Temple-less Hellenist Sadducees), but will have no implication whatsoever regarding a non-existent Christianity in the 1^st century C.E.