Cool new biblical archaeology discovery

[Strader327]

A inscription on the James ossuary where it says he is the son of Joseph and brother of Jesus according to this article, has been verified as authentic. See for yourselves:

http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/dail ... c=E3249973

[OldShep]

After a 5-year trial, Jerusalem judge Aharon Farkash recently acquitted the defendants of all charges of forgery. But his verdict doesn’t mean the Aramaic inscription on the bone box, “James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus,” is authentic. It only means that the prosecution failed to present evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that the inscription is a forgery......................

Whether the “Jesus” on the bone box refers to the founder of Christianity is a separate question. Jesus, James and Joseph were all common names at the time. Professor Camil Fuchs of Tel Aviv University has made a little-known statistical analysis of the occurrence of these three names in ancient Jerusalem and concluded that at the time there were 1.71 people named James with a father Joseph and a brother named Jesus; and Professor Fuchs says he can say this with 95 per cent assurance that it is a statistically accurate conclusion.

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I seen the above.

Dennis

[Guest shiloh357]

A inscription on the James ossuary where it says he is the son of Joseph and brother of Jesus according to this article, has been verified as authentic. See for yourselves:

http://www.biblicala... ... c=E3249973

I would very much like to think the ossuary is the real McCoy so that we would possess external evidence that James is the brother of Jesus. Many Christians seem not to like the idea that Jesus had a brother, but honestly there is still controversy. Until a consensus is arrived at I will withhold judgement, about the ossuary, that is. I am convinced Jesus had a number of sibblings, James included.

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It's just the Catholics that are botherd by that. Protestants don't have a problem with it that I can see.

[nebula]

I seem to recall chatting with someone who was insistent that James was a cousin of Jesus, though scripture seems instead to say that he was a brother. I wonder what opinion other members hold on this?

I haven't heard that one. I know of Catholics insisting James was Jesus' step-brother rather than half-brother, though.

[Guest shiloh357]

A inscription on the James ossuary where it says he is the son of Joseph and brother of Jesus according to this article, has been verified as authentic. See for yourselves:

http://www.biblicala... ... c=E3249973

I would very much like to think the ossuary is the real McCoy so that we would possess external evidence that James is the brother of Jesus. Many Christians seem not to like the idea that Jesus had a brother, but honestly there is still controversy. Until a consensus is arrived at I will withhold judgement, about the ossuary, that is. I am convinced Jesus had a number of sibblings, James included.

It's just the Catholics that are botherd by that. Protestants don't have a problem with it that I can see.

I seem to recall chatting with someone who was insistent that James was a cousin of Jesus, though scripture seems instead to say that he was a brother. I wonder what opinion other members hold on this?

The Catholics insist that Jesus "brothers and sisters" were His cousins (including James) because they insist that Mary and Joseph never had sexual relations. The exegesis of the RCC is often really shaky because they have doctrines that were formulated apart from the Bible hundreds of years AFTER the Bible was written and they have to read those doctrines retroactively back into the text which requires them to be less than honest about the text. The perpetual virginity of Mary is one of those doctrines that they can't really find in the Bible so they have to assert that when the Bible mentions Jesus' brothers and sisters (actually half brothers and half sisters because Joseph was not Jesus' biological father) they have to accuse the translators of mistranslation in order to force this doctrine into the text of Scripture.

[Guest shiloh357]

I seem to recall chatting with someone who was insistent that James was a cousin of Jesus, though scripture seems instead to say that he was a brother. I wonder what opinion other members hold on this?

I haven't heard that one. I know of Catholics insisting James was Jesus' step-brother rather than half-brother, though.

Remember Fiosh? She cited RCC apologists who insisted that Jesus' brothers and sisters were His cousins.