[stuartcr]

It could very well hold someone else's bones too...how would anyone know whose bones they are? And what is the significance?

[drjimmy]

It could very well hold someone else's bones too...how would anyone know whose bones they are? And what is the significance?
This thread is like a Monty Python sketch. The evidence indicates that someone in modern times forged an inscription on a box to make it appear that it had once held the bones of the brother of Jesus. Some people on this site are claiming that because the Jews do not recognize the divinity of Jesus, they have "an agenda" to deny that this box once held the bones of the brother of Jesus. Apples and oranges.

It isn't significant to me one way or the other, but it obviously is to a lot of people, including the guy who would stand to make at least a million bucks from selling the box if it held the bones of the brother of Jesus. If not, it's just one more ancient ossuary among the hundreds the Israel Antiquities Authority has in its storeroom.