This is an Empty Tomb Witnessing Pendant, from ETWJ.com. I was reminded of this when reading David Kuos' response to the Jesus Family Tomb dustup, which ended as follows:
"It is also a message that is true no matter how many times people think they have disproven it and a message grounded in timeless truths like an empty cross and an empty tomb."
Also on BeliefNet, Ben Witherington presented an edited version of the objections listed on his blog . . . without the reference to the filmmaker's Jewish beliefs. On his blog, Witherington adds more objections today, although most of the objections in all his posts are pretty easily parried. (For example, I don't think that too many non-Christian scholars would have a problem questioning the veracity of James, especially since it's not clear that we have any reliable contemporaneous record of anything he himself wrote or said.)
The criticism that offers the best mileage is that the "Miramne" inscription actually ends in "-ou" and is a genitive of the diminuitive form. I've looked at the inscription in unclear low rez & am not entirely sure that this is accurate, but I can see how one could get there. In any case, now I really wish I'd paid more attention in my ancient epigraphy class!
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