Best line of the day, so far

The argument about the identity of the Jerusalem tomb focussed on a question of names and their frequency. The tombs were marked with the names Jesus, son of Joseph; Joseph (possibly a brother); Mary (conceivably a mother); Judah (perhaps a son); and Mariamene or Mariamne, who is alleged to be Mary Magdalene. Skeptics hold that these names occurred about as frequently in first-century Jerusalem as the names Emma, Jacob, and Dylan do on the Upper West Side today; believers insist that this spray of names would almost never show up by chance, particularly with the unusual form of “Mary” thrown in. “It’s like finding a John, a Paul, and a George, and you don’t leap to the obvious conclusion…unless you found a Ringo,” [producer James] Cameron remarked triumphantly.

Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker