The Jesus Dynasty

ABC News Home ^ | 4/7/2006 | Excerpt from JAmes D. Tabor book

[The Bard]

I do not recall that the bible gives a number, but it does confirm that he had brothers. It mentions them as coming out when he is preaching to collect him. When told that his mother and brothers were looking for him, he replies "Who are my brothers and mothers? Those that do the will of God" Traditionally the brothers were considered elder half brothers by a previous marriage of Joseph.

I am one who buy into the tradition that Joseph had children from a previous marriage, asthe bible doesn't tell us this, but I don't normally make it a point of division either, BUT....

You state that these older brothers were half brothers (according to tradition). How can they be older half brothers? If these brothers are from a previous marriage of Joseph, the only way they could have a blood relationship with Jesus would be for Joseph to be the biological father of Jesus (Thus dening the divinity of Christ).

I take it you meant that these were step brothers, not biological half brothers.... Also, scripture tells us that Jesus had not just brothers, but also sisters:

Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things?
- Matthew 13:55-56 (KJV)

[Lynne]

OK, I guess I'll get flamed, but I actually enjoyed the book.

[RobbyS]

The purpose, of course, is to create the illusion that new and revealing evidence is coming forth which discredits the Christian story. But people buy these "disocveries" after two thoiusand years even they the same ones will turn around and mock what St' Helena is supposed to have found in the 4th Century.

[RobbyS]

I am sure you would have enjoyed P.T. Barnum also.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Joe Zias, a physical anthropologist and archaeologist who formerly worked for the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) but was let go during a budget squeeze in 1997... in August 2003, Zias (unnamed) had given a sworn deposition to the Israeli police swearing to having seen the ossuary in the antiquities shop -- without "brother of Jesus" on it.

update:

Former IAA employee Zoe Zias told several archaeologists and BAR editor Hershal Shanks in 2003 that he had previously seen the James Ossuary in a Jerusalem antiquities shop without the words "brother of Jesus" at the end of the inscription. At the trial, he admitted he had not seen the inscription and could not read it if he had. -- Joe Zias Under Oath | Excerpts from the Forgery Trial of the Century | Biblical Archaeology Society Staff | 06/14/2012