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You have trouble understanding my posts (one is not surprised) BUT you are an all purpose expert on Scripture and Aramaic without proving it.

Are dinosaurs unScriptural and therefore non-existent? Render for us in Aramaic: The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. Nothing terribly complicated there. Nothing terribly complicated about your refusal to answer two simple questions either.

Your big problem is that the members of the oldest and largest and original Christian Church are not lapping at your feet and rendering to you the status of expert at quite the level you claim for yourself.

I feared you were heading toward sola Dead Scrolla.

What invalidates as evidence the magical mystery box or boxtop as the case may be of the desert sands is the absolute lack of even a contemporary chain of evidence and the fact that people will feel a bit more respectful when the inscrutable secret and unknowable Muslim buyer and seller(s) are a bit more forthcoming as to how they obtained it and the present owner is willing to allow scholarly examination by those not captive "scholars".

If you can't respond to someone like you imagine me to be, don't respond lest we think you can.

Do you not agree that Biblical Archaeology Review is an outstanding scholarly journal with a long standing reputation?

I still believe peer review is warrranted, but BAR is not a catholic-bashing outfit. Nor is it a johnny-come-lately rag looking to make a splash.

BUT you are an all purpose expert on Scripture and Aramaic without proving it.

I'm not an expert. I'm just a common man with the brain that God gave me and the ability to read the Bible, which God wrote for people like me to read as a check & balance against religious org's who try to LIE in order to obtain power. (Like the RCC)

The Roman Catholic Church, on the other hand DID purport itself to be not only EXPERT on the Bible, but INFALLIBLE as well!

Now their line of hogwash has been utterly destroyed and debunked by a little stone box.

What you guys are unable to respond to is that what is written on the box MERELY CONFIRMS & CORROBORATES what the Bible already plainly says! Joseph and Mary had FOUR OTHER SONS besides Jesus. One of them was James.

Now we've found James' burial box, which merely confirms what we already (from the Bible) knew. His father was Joseph and his brother was Jesus. Why is that non-understandable "rocket science" to you guys?