I’d be happy if you just responded to my post about the ossaury of James, the blood brother of Jesus.
I don't really want to be anywhere near this thread when God Himself splits open the skies to "ask" why we're talking about His mother like this.
Let me put it this way: If your mom and the word vagina ever enter the same sentence (as they just did here...) will YOU be pleased?
Anyhoooo... As to the article I noticed a couple of things, there seemed to be much discussion of how St. James was known to all Jerusalem as "James the Just" to distinguish him from all the other Jameseses running around (at least the pdf the other day did... this one does not)... so why wasn't the bone box labeled "James the Just son of..."
The article quickly dismisses the question as to why the inscription was "the brother of Jesus" and not "the brother of the Lord" by referring to Josephus' use of the term "the brother of Jesus, who is called the Messiah"... well who put the bones in the box exactly, smurfs? James was the leader of the Church in Jerusalem if Christians inscribed the box one would expect the reference to Jesus to indicate "THE Jesus", if non-Christians did the inscribing why would they make a reference to Jesus at all since apparently James had eclipsed Jesus in the eyes of the Jews.
Oh, the article mentions a Greek word for cousin... but wasn't the ossuary inscribed in Aramaic? I'm told there's no word for cousin in Aramaic, so that almost looks like sleight of hand.
I will say this, if someone was going to forge that thing I think "James son of Joseph brother of Jesus" was a stupid thing to write on it. If you're gonna forge something like that "James the Just, son of Joseph the Carpenter, brother of Jesus the Christ (aka God Incarnate just so there's no confusion)" would have made a great deal more sense.
Lastly, in explaining why you pinged me to this mess you called me "bro". In 2000 years when the historians are going through the early freep archives will there be debate on whether Quix and Legatus were blood brothers? Will someone write a thesis defending the proposition "Quix would not have referred to Legatus as Bro if he didn't mean blood brother because there were plenty of other words available"? I don't know about you but lots of people call me brother and I'm an only child. My father and his colleagues all called each other Doc and none of them were doctors as far as I know.
It's a box with some words on, it may be evidence but it's not proof of anything other than that it's a box with words on.