Posted on 04/13/2025 10:10:29 PM PDT by Beowulf9
A 2,000-year-old bone box etched with the name of Jesus' brother discovered in Israel is now on display in the US.
The limestone box, or ossuary, features the inscription 'James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus,' written in ancient Aramaic.
Because the names correspond to those of Jesus of Nazareth's brother and father, many speculate that the box once held the remains of James the Just, the first leader of Christians in Jerusalem after the crucifixion.
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My whole point. I put up the post.
Others are the ones who are dealilng with those issues. Which is fine, that’s the point of a chat, which this is, not a blog.
There are no bones in the box. I read somewhere on the net ‘The bones originally inside the ossuary had been discarded, which is the case in nearly all ossuaries not discovered by archaeologists’.
Isn’t that just horrible?! The info they just threw out could’verevealed so much in the way of an investition.
There were likely hundreds of brothers named Joshua and James whose father's name was Joseph around that general time frame. These were three common names. More evidence would be needed to establish this as that particular James.
I’m just here for the popcorn.
If cousin and brother can mean the same thing, why didn’t Mary say she was going to visit her brother Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist?
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Amen!!!!
As does mine.
Because he was.
The gospels were originally written in Greek, which has words to distinguish between brother and cousin. And certainly the writers of the gospels (not to mention the Holy Spirit) knew whether Mary and Joseph had children after Jesus.
I've lived in a small town of 6,500 for over 30 years now, and I certainly can't think of any. Drop any one of those names out of the list, and I can come up with one. But, with all three of those parameters, I get no matches.
And you, of course, know everyone in town by name!
I bet that, in reality, you couldn't name a mere 650 town inhabitants - let alone identify all their fraternal and filial relations.
Unless you worked all those years as a postal carrier and moonlighted as census taker, I doubt that you could correctly spot and name a single person in a police line-up of, say, ten persons chosen at random from the community.
We also tend to vastly overrate our ability to remember names and faces.
You might be still able to list 80% of your third-grade classmates (though you might very well not know that little Mikey had an older half-brother named Bob who left town a decade earlier and never came back - even if he once mentioned it to you on the playground, you'll have long forgotten that).
Regards,
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