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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An article like this is at least two decades old.
It was popular long before those times
Hebrews went with - ha sus - the horse
But the origin was - ha aur - the light
I was aware it’s not recent that’s why I didnt put it under news.
This one is more recent:
I picked the first article because it would show the Ossuary. I hoped it would lead others to read more about it on their own.
Yeah, go to any small town in present-day America, and say that you're looking for "Bob, son of Joe, brother of Mike," and see how people look at you.
And that scenario posits that you're talking only about currently living people. Expand it to include anyone living within the past, say, century, and you soon have a big problem.
Regards,
The first Early Church historian, Eusebius, wrote at some length about James. The biblical texts are also explicit about Jesus having siblings. It totally makes sense, Roman Catholic tradition notwithstanding.
There are many reasons besides naming Jesus on that box for considering its authenticity besides the fact that only one other Ossuary has ever been found with an inscription naming of the deceased having a brother and that was only done due to the fact they believe the named brother was of some fame. “important.
“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.”
“On February 26, 2007, a news conference was held at the New York Public Library by director James Cameron and Simcha Jacobovici to discuss their documentary The Lost Tomb of Jesus, which discusses the 1980 finding of the Talpiot Tomb, which they claim is in fact Jesus’ family tomb. In the film, they also suggest that the so-called James ossuary is actually the “missing link” from the tomb. At the original discovery of the Talpiot Tomb, there were ten ossuaries, but one has since been lost. Jacobovici suggests the James Ossuary could be the missing one. According to the film, “recent tests conducted at the CSI Suffolk Crime lab in New York demonstrate that the patina (a chemical film encrustation on the box) from the James ossuary matches the patina from the other ossuaries in the Talpiot tomb.”
“Two paleographers, André Lemaire of the Sorbonne and Ada Yardeni of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, pronounced it as authentic in the trial. No paleographer of repute has challenged their analysis.[13] In fact, Yardeni, who is considered an expert in the field, testified that the inscription is no doubt of ancient origin inscribed by a single individual, and stated, “If this is a forgery, I quit.”
“The first-century origin of the ossuary is not in question, since the only time Jews buried in that fashion was from approximately 20 BC to the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. The dispute centres on the date of origin of the inscription”.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ossuary
If one seeks truth then one must be open to considering aspects which may not agree with how one would prefer it to conclude.
My Bible (NKJV) teaches James was the brother of Jesus.
Ouch!
You really are scum, you know that?
Actually, this is not new. It was discovered 20 years ago or more and it took archeologists 10 years to confirm that it does belongs to James. It has been in the news for decades at this point.
There is an incredible amount of stuff unearthed that confirms the Bible. They found the pool of Bethsaida and the Stables of Solomon. There are a number of items found in Rome that refer to the contemporary Christ.
The list is endless, but archeologists say only 1% has been unearthed. There are tells everywhere that have not yet been excavated.
Bishop of Jerusalem, mid-first century ARSH:
Yiddish: כאאָס (kha-os)
Bethsaida, on Galillee, was the hometown of Peter, Andrew, Philip.
Recent archaeological finds are worth catching up on.
https://www.museumofthebible.org/events/byzantine-bethsaida-and-the-house-of-st-peter
Byzantine Bethsaida and the House of St. Peter
In this presentation, Professor R. Steven Notley of Alliance University (formerly Nyack College) and Dr. Mordechai Aviam of Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee will explore the historical and religious implications of the fifth- to eighth-century basilica excavated at Khirbet el-Araj (Bethsaida) from 2019 to 2022. In the absence of an alternative church, since 1921 both scholarly and popular writings have redirected the Byzantine testimony for a basilica built over the house of Peter to the “Octagon” (as its excavator, Gaudenzio Orfali, called it) in Capernaum. Yet, this modern innovation stands in the face of centuries of Christian tradition that consistently identified Peter’s home in Bethsaida, not in Capernaum.
For six seasons, the Kinneret Institute for Galilean Archaeology and Alliance University have excavated the archaeological site of el-Araj (Bet HaBek) on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee. Beneath the former nineteenth-century house of Abdul Rahman Pasha Bek, three distinct layers have been identified in Area A. In the upper layer, which dates to the Crusader and Mamluk period, a sugar manufacturing structure was discovered. Below it is a monastery dating to the Byzantine and Early Islamic period, the fifth to the eighth century. It was constructed around a large basilica paved with mosaic floors. The basilica, or church, was described by the Bavarian bishop Willibald from his visit in 724, where he reports that it was built over the house of the apostles Peter and Andrew.
During the 2022 season, we were fortunate to find a complete Greek inscription that mentions, “the chief and commander of the heavenly apostles,” a clear reference to St. Peter. The inscription confirmed this is the church visited by Willibald! About two meters below the floors of the monastery, we uncovered a layer dated to the Roman period. Pottery and coins date from first to the third century. This is clear proof that the site, which was already suggested by scholars years ago, is indeed a good candidate for New Testament Bethsaida.
In addition, excavations in the surrounding Areas B, C, and D have found houses and rooms dated only to the Roman period, with coins from first to third century and pottery from first century BC. Limestone vessels, typical of Jewish populations, were found in the lower layer of these outlying squares. There are even coins minted by Herod Phillip, who is credited with transforming the village of Bethsaida into the city of Julias. There remains little doubt that the site of el-Araj was inhabited from the first century BC onward and probably began as a Jewish village. The existence of a public, well-decorated bathhouse in the Roman period shows signs of urbanization in what had previously been a rural site.
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Those who do not believe that Mary had other children after Jesus, lean on a revised English translation of the original Greek text of Matthew 12:48-50:
“Who is my mother, and who are my cousins or stepfather’s children from a previous marriage? Here are my mother and my cousins or stepfather’s children from a previous marriage. For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my cousin or stepfather’s son or daughter from a previous marriage, and mother.”
And that is the sum total of your contribution to this thread: the spewing of hatred.
Sad.
Regards,
“ In Aramaic, the word brothers can also mean cousins.”
There is no word for “cousin” in Aramaic. If one wanted to refer to the cousin relationship, one has to use a circumlocution such as “the son of his uncle” (brona d-`ammeh).
This is a reference to a brother, half-brother, adoptive brother, or step brother.
Let me guess/ there are going to try to Xtract DNA and us it to resurrect Jesus? To late it has already been done! “He Has Risen!”
The New Testament was originally written in Koine Greek, the widespread language of the region at the time. Only a few quotes from Jesus are in the Aramaic language. IDK if the “brother/cousin” equivalence, argued here by many, is accurate for the Greek. In any case, believing whether James was a brother or a cousin seems to me to have nothing to do with salvation.
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