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A documentary maker is releasing a film documenting his discovery of the nails which were used in Jesus' crucifixion. So he claims, of course. After reading the article, what can definitively be stated is some nails from around the right period were found in a tomb that might contain the ossuary of Caiphas, the rabbi who turned Jesus over to Pilate. Quite a few "around" and "might"'s for me to take it all too seriously, but it does make for an interesting story.
I saw the article on ABC World News. Since it's more or less impossible to say this set of nails or that set of nails was used in the Crucifixion (or for that matter in a neighbor's roof), and because Jesus was neither the first nor the last person to undergo crucifixion (not by a long stretch) in Judea at that time, they're just a set of First Century nails to me, not a holy relic.
Posted by: mark on April 14, 2011 07:49 AMAt best one might be able to say these are nails that might be representative of the nails used in crucifixion. For all we know they didn't use "standard" nails for that - hell, we don't even know if they used "standard" nails for anything. Maybe different blacksmiths made different kinds of nails.
Posted by: Ron ap Rhys on April 14, 2011 10:51 AM