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To: Beowulf9

very common names. it’s like in China— Wing, son of Wu


4 posted on 04/13/2025 10:26:59 PM PDT by Strict9
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“Professor Camil Fuchs of Tel Aviv University stated that, other than the James Ossuary, there has so far only been one found, amongst thousands of ossuaries, that contains a reference to a brother, concluding that “there is little doubt that this [naming a brother or son] was done only when there was a very meaningful reason to refer to a family member of the deceased, usually due to his importance and fame.” He produced a statistical analysis of the occurrence of these three names in ancient Jerusalem and projected that there would only have been 1.71 people named James, with a father named Joseph and a brother named Jesus, expected to be living in Jerusalem around the time at which the ossuary was produced.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ossuary


19 posted on 04/13/2025 11:41:39 PM PDT by Beowulf9 ( )
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