TEXT TRANSLATION 6.1.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 478.

Part 6

Part 5

Part 2

Part 1

Listen to the news report and fill the gaps.

LISTENING 6.1. Tomb of Jesus found, says film-maker Cameron

Translate the underlined passages.

TONY EASTLEY: A controversial new documentary, made by Hollywood director, James Cameron, claims to have discovered the ___________of Jesus and his family.

The document_ _ _, due for release today, has already created uproar by claiming that it has found the bones of Jesus. A finding which, if true, would attack one of the fundamentals of Christianity.

Middle East Correspondent, David Hardaker, reports from the scene of the contro_ _ _ _ _, in Jerusalem.

DAVID HARDAKER: For hundreds of years, Christian _ _ _ _rims have come here to where Jesus of Nazareth was _ _ _ _ _fiedand placed in a tomb.

TOURIST: We only arrived like 20 minutes ago. So it's the first thing to see and to do.

DAVID HARDAKER: _ _ _ _ _vers from all over the world queue to see this __________site.

TOURIST 2: I'm from Russia. Yes, it's very important for me. It's for my soul.

DAVID HARDAKER: But the makers of a new documentary have made the startling claim that Jesus wasn't _ _ _ _ _rected and that his bones have been found in a family tomb five kilometers away.

PATER PELELUM: We show the tomb, which is about to honour, 100 metres below down.

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DAVID HARDAKER: Father Pater Pelelum (phonetic) is a Greek Orthodox priest who has been a ___________ of Jesus' tomb at the Church of the Holy _ _ _ _ _chre for more than two decades.

PATER PELELUM: I serve here 23 years. One hundred per cent this is

_ _ _ial place for Jesus Christ.

DAVID HARDAKER: The story goes back more than 25 years, to a quiet

_ _ _ _salem suburb called Talpiot. Construction workers were gouging out foundations when the earth gave way to reveal a 2,000 year old cave containing a number of stone caskets.

Israeli _ _ _ _eologists finally _ _ _ _ _hered the writing on the tombs and found the names, which included _____________, or Jesus, son of Joseph and Mary.

The makers of the documentary claim new _ _ _ tests show the bones belong to Jesus and that the tombs show Jesus had a son called Judah.

The evidence has apparently been enough to convince at least one senior academic in America, James Tabor, who is the_____________of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina.

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But not so, one of Israel's most _ _ _ _ _nent archaeologists, Professor Amos Kloner.

AMOS KLONER: There remains in the cave show that it was used for several generations, maybe three generations, and we don't know about the stay of the family from _ _ _ _reth for more than a generation.

DAVID HARDAKER: Do you allow even a five _____ _____ chance that this might be true?

AMOS KLONER: No, no, no, no. I deny it completely.

DAVID HARDAKER: Professor Kloner worked on the archaeological find 20 years ago. He never linked the names to the family of _ _sus of Nazareth, because for one thing, all the names discovered were very common.

AMOS KLONER: The name, for instance, "_ _ _ _ph", the father of Jesus, is the most common Jewish name in the first century BC. Jesus is the seventh one.

DAVID HARDAKER: We also have Mary though.

AMOS KLONER: Mary is the most common name among __________ladies of the second temple[1] period.

DAVID HARDAKER: They might all be very common, but isn't it _________uncommon to have them all together?

AMOS KLONER: Yes, that's right. But if you are accepting this idea, the third generation buried in the cave, or one of the youngest is called Judah, the son of Jesus. Do you know about any sons __________were born to Jesus?

DAVID HARDAKER: Professor Kloner says also that as the son of a poor

_ _ _penter, it's unlikely Jesus was given the kind of bur_ _ _favoured by the middle classes.

The documentary though has outraged religious leaders in Jerusalem, such as the senior _________, Father Peter Madros.

PETER MADROS: Anyone who _________ Jesus negatively is likely to get much money.

DAVID HARDAKER: Father Peter Madros sees the latest documentary as more in the vein of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, the highly _ _ _ _ _table book and movie which also challenged the Christian message.

PETER MADROS: This person seems to be, as someone said, riding the wave of the Da Vinci. We feel there that there is an attempt to undermine the resurrection of Christ.

But the main column of Christia_ _ _ _is the Holy _ _ _nity, and this you can't destroy by finding a couple of bones in Talpiot, or not even in Sydney.

TONY EASTLEY: Father Peter Madros ending David Hardaker's report from Jerusalem.