[BrooklynGOP]

You want to tell me that the Jewish experts have no stake in this at all? Please, I have some swamp land for sale, you interested?

What's their stake. Please tell me. As a Jew I would love to know.

[MissAmericanPie]

I feel very sure that you will have a greater chance of having the Democrats praise Republican policy before you will have any of these experts give credence to any evidence contrary to their own pre-concieved notions and agendas.

Can you imagine the storm that would be created around the world and in Israel for these experts to say that it's the real deal? Ain't gonna happen.

[mdmathis6]

If the inscription was authentic, then the beliefs of many Jews, agnostics, atheists, secular liberals,and politically correct paganists, just about any-body who wasn't a Christian would have to re-consider their whole life and belief systems. That's why one might argue that there might be an "agenda" in denying or at least throwing a lot of doubt on such a phenomena.
Physics and chemistry should shed a lot of light on the "patina" on the box and on the inscription. A recently etched inscription would be simple enough to establish, though it would have settled the question had the whole inscription been recently etched and not a part of it. Lime-stone being what it is, is fairly chemically reactive with the acidic pollutants in the atmosphere and I wonder how that has affected the box over time.

Truth to tell, even if the box is authentic, I doubt it would change a lot of minds. Divinity is a tough thing to prove logically from writings and relics 20 centuries old; even if they helped establish that a personage known as Jesus really lived, all the other claims made about him would still be arguable.
And I say these things as a "true believer" in Jesus Christ as Lord and King, God in Flesh!

[rwfromkansas]

Your Jewish faith explains your refusal to see the obvious agenda of the Israelis here.