Monday, October 21, 2002

Possible Earliest Reference of Jesus Found (washingtonpost.com)

The box is an ossuary, used by Jews at the time of Christ to hold the bones of the deceased. The ossuary has almost no ornamentation except for a simple, yet riveting, Aramaic inscription: Ya'akov bar Yosef akhui diYeshua, it says -- "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus."

Interesting, I agree with the theory that "James the Just" was actually a more popular figure in Israel at the time of his death. There is a lot more to the early history of Israel and the Church than you get from just the Bible.

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