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	James Ossuary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The James ossuary was on display at the Royal Ontario Museum from November 15, 2002 to January 5, 2003.
		When the ossuary arrived in Toronto in the morning of October 31, 2002, the ROM personnel on hand were horrified to see that the ossuary was packed in a cardboard box (whereas the standard for shipping antiquities is typically within a foam-lined metal or wooden crate).
		As for the James Ossuary, epigraphers of IAA concluded that the inscription was modern.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Ossuary (1578 words)

	James' Ossuary Found
		James was Head of the Christian church in Jerusalem, and it is no surprise that his ossuary would be preserved and well marked.
		The Roman Catholic Church views James as a first cousin of Jesus (so are the other brothers and sisters), born of Clopas (assumed to be brother of Joseph) and Mary of Clopas.
		James, and the other five children are mentioned as brothers and sisters in the Gospels.
	www.biblediscoveries.com /ossuary.html (1008 words)

	israelinsider: Views: Final report on the James ossuary
		As ossuaries contravene the normal rules for Jewish burial, the appearance of so many ossuaries in the period before the destruction of the temple is strong evidence that the cemeteries around Jerusalem were extremely short on normal burial space.
		As the ossuaries were stacked or stored right next to each other, for long term storage and visiting, the size of an ossuary tends towards an average of around 24 inches in length by 13-3/4 inches in height by 12 inches in width.
		The inscription on the "James" ossuary is anomalous.
	web.israelinsider.com /Views/1601.htm (3926 words)

	James Ossuary Earliest Reference to Jesus : Laurence Gardner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		With the James ossuary bringing the siblings of Jesus to the forefront of current discussion, some orthodox theologians have suggested that Aramaic was an unusual language in that it did not differentiate between brothers, sisters and cousins.
		The James ossuary is a plain and very common limestone type of bone box, but as was pointed out some time ago its inscription is unusually refined - more in keeping with those found on lavishly styled ossuaries such as that of Joseph Caiaphas (Yehosef bar Qayafa), the High Priest of Jerusalem AD 18-37.
		Stories such as that of the James ossuary are presented with a certain initial enthusiasm, but this is generally clouded by the inclusion of irrelevant comments from churchmen.
	graal.co.uk /ossuary.html (1960 words)

	James Ossuary, Bone Box, Hoax or History? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		On June 18, 2003, the IAA announced in a press conference that the "James Ossuary inscription" is a forgery.
		Ossuaries captured the attention of much of the Christian world when in 1990, an ossuary inscribed with, "Yehosef bar Qayafa" was unearthed accidentally by Israeli construction workers.
		It was one of two ossuaries of the family of "Caiaphas," the same Caiaphas, the high priest, spoke of in the gospels.
	answers.org /apologetics/jamesbonebox.html (1791 words)

	Evidence of the James ossuary and the writings of Josephus related to the Einstein Method
		James' final witness to the world was his willingness to defend the Christian faith and die as a martyr.
		James, who witnessed the resurrected Jesus, was transformed from a sarcastic non-believing younger brother to a faithful witness that willingly died for his faith in Messiah.
		The hypothesis that the James ossuary is a modern day forgery is based on the idea that someone would be able to carve such intricate letters that would match methods and types from the 1st century.
	www.harvardhouse.com /james.htm (2954 words)

	TBK - Bone-Box No Proof of Jesus
		James was Jesus's blood brother, born of the Virgin Mary; 2.
		The wording on the James ossuary, if it is to be interpreted as referring to a blood brother born of Mary, would indicate that of the many sects one particular was involved in its apparent forgery.
		The James ossuary is suspicious not only for the lack of its provenance, a development frequently indicating a forgery, but also for the tidiness of its inscription, which seems to have been written not by an early "innocent" Christian but by a propagandist such as those who created so many bogus relics over the centuries.
	www.truthbeknown.com /ossuary.htm (5755 words)

	Burial Box of St. James Found?
		James, Joseph, and Jesus were very common names in first century Palestine, and Lemaire estimates that there may have been as many as twenty individuals in Jerusalem who were named James and who had fathers named Joseph and brothers names Jesus.
		The ossuary identifies its James as the son of Joseph and the brother of Jesus, it does not identify him as the son-much less the biological son-of Mary.
		Bottom line: If the ossuary of James bar-Joseph is that of James the brother of the Lord, it sheds light on which of the theories Catholics are permitted to hold is most likely the correct one, but it does nothing to refute Catholic doctrine.
	www.catholic.com /library/Burial_Box_of_St_James_Found.asp (1952 words)

	James' Ossuary - ChristianAnswers.Net
		Golan is suspected of forging both the James ossuary and another archeological find, a stone tablet with an inscription from 2 Kings 12 calling for temple repairs.
		The discovery of the inscription which seems to mention James, the brother of Jesus Christ, was originally announced at a news conference in Washington, D.C. on the morning of October 21, 2002.
		The inscription is in Aramaic, one of the languages of the New Testament period, and says "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus." It's carved on the side of an ossuary, a box carved out of soft limestone, typically used as a bone container in the tombs of first century A.D. Jews.
	www.christiananswers.net /q-eden/james-ossuary.html (426 words)

	James the Brother of the Lord. Has His ossuary Been Found? biblicalstudies.info
		James, the son of Zebedee, and brother of the apostle John, was put to death by Herod Agrippa I before A.D. (Acts 12:1-2).
		James, the Lord's brother, is generally thought to be the author of the Epistle of James.
		The exhibition of the James Ossuary was arranged to coincide with the annual meetings of the American Schools of Oriental Research, the American Academy of Religion, and the Society of Biblical Literature.
	biblicalstudies.info /James/james.htm (2112 words)

	The 'James' Ossuary Inscription is a Fake. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The ossuary itself is undoubtedly genuine; the well-executed and formal first part of the inscription is a holographic original by a literate (and wealthy) survivor of Jacob Ben Josef in the 1st century CE.
		In fact, James, (the son of Mary and Joseph and, therefore, the half brother of Jesus), was at first a skeptic and did not believe that Jesus was God until AFTER Jesus' death and resurrection.
		James, the brother of Jesus, not only became a "believer" in Jesus, but he also became the "pastor" of the Church in Jerusalem and was an important and highly respected "leader" among Christians (Believers) in his day.
	www.sullivan-county.com /news/paul/jo.htm (3401 words)

	Bones box discovery by Lemaire with "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus" inscription. Is this ossuary physical ...
		As ossuaries, after all, contravene the normal rules for Jewish burial, the appearance of so many ossuaries in the period before the destruction of the temple is strong evidence that the cemeteries around Jerusalem were in a space-crunch.
		The ossuary itself is undoubtedly genuine; the well executed and formal first part of the inscription is a holographic original by a literate (and wealthy) survivor of Jacob BenJosef in the 1st century CE.
		If the James ossuary originally had a similar frame surrounding the "first half" of the inscription, then one would expect to notice a concave area around the inscription where the edges of the frame were chipped away and smoothed upward, level with the rest of the ossuary.
	www.earlychristianwritings.com /james-bone-box.html (5756 words)

	The Ossuary of James
		The ossuary was then placed in a niche (loculi or kokh) area of the burial cave for permanent storage.
		Jesus, Joseph and James were common names in biblical times, but according to experts, the statistical probability of their appearing in that combination is extremely slim.
		The ossuary is the "the nail in the coffin of the 'cousin' argument," says John Meier, a New Testament professor at Notre Dame University.
	www.thenazareneway.com /ossuary_of_james.htm (2099 words)

	Debate over ‘Jesus inscription’ rises again - Science - MSNBC.com
		Israeli researchers said the main clue that the inscription was phony was that its letters had been cut through a soft gray residue that could not have built up naturally with age and thus was most likely a homemade paste smeared over the inscription to make it appear old.
		James Harrell, a geologist at the University of Toledo and a member of the Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones in Antiquity, wrote in the publication that the Israeli investigation was flawed.
		The inscription, he said, could be ancient and the traces of residue found within its letters might have been left behind by something used to clean the inscription, or someone might have smeared the film over the lettering to hide the cleaning.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/3753790 (622 words)

	James Ossuary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The ossuary is said to have been unearthed in Silwan on the West Bank, a village near Jerusalem.
		The ossuary itself is authentic, but it is alleged that someone carved the inscription into it and then covered the inscription with an imitation patina made from water and ground chalk to produce the illusion of antiquity.
		Nevertheless, it is possible that the inscription is genuine and the ossuary once held the bones of the author of the Letter of James.
	www.abu.nb.ca /Courses/NTIntro/images/JamesOssuary.htm (159 words)

	Brother James and his Box of Tricks
		An ossuary bearing the name Jacob, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus, in Aramaic, was, it seems, originally found in the basement of a museum by Prof.
		He dated the ossuary and its inscription rather precisely to 63 AD, a date consistent with the inscription's cursive style of Aramaic –; which only occurs from 10 - 70 AD – and the "known fate" of James, the brother of Jesus.
		Its odd that an orthodox Jew – such as the James character – would have his epitaph written in Aramaic, the language of the northern kingdom, as opposed to Hebrew, which was that of Judea and of "true" Jews.
	www.jesusneverexisted.com /James-box.html (2830 words)

	James Ossuary: Bone (Box) of Contention (Skeptical Inquirer March 2003)
		And he believes that the inscription's mention of a father named Joseph plus a brother named Jesus suggests "that this is the ossuary of the James in the New Testament," which in turn "would also mean that we have here the first epigraphic mention--from about 63 c.e.--of Jesus of Nazareth" (Lemaire 2002, 33).
		James was reportedly thrown from the top of the Temple and stoned and beaten to death (Hurley 2002), so his skeletal remains might show evidence of such trauma.
		In the case of the James ossuary, there would have indeed been room on the front, yet the scribe elected to carve the inscription on the back.
	www.csicop.org /si/2003-03/bonebox.html (2314 words)

	The James Ossuary
		On October 21, 2002, the discovery of an inscription on the side of a light brown, chalky limestone box was announced at a Washington press conference.
		The Associated Press reports that James Ossuary owner Oded Golan was arrested Monday on suspicion of forgery and dealing in fake antiquities.
		The once-celebrated James Ossuary was found Monday, July 21, in a filthy rooftop bathroom during a police raid on the owner's home.
	www.archaeology.org /ossuary (231 words)

	Ossuário de Tiago
		An inscription has been found on an ancient bone box, called an ossuary, that reads “James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus.” This container provides the only New Testament-era mention of the central figure of Christianity and is the first-ever archaeological discovery to corroborate Biblical references to Jesus.
		The box is an ossuary, used by Jews at the time of Christ to hold the bones of the deceased.
		The Jerusalem ossuary, which carries the inscribed name (in Aramaic) of "Ya'akov bar Yohosef akhui di Yeshua" [that is: "Jacob, son of Joseph, brother of Joshua"], is not a new discovery.
	www.airtonjo.com /ossuariodetiago.htm (1778 words)

	Ossuary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 2002, an ossuary allegedly belonging to James the Just was brought to the public's attention by Oded Golan and Andre Lemaire.
		If authentic, the 2,000 year-old ossuary which bore the inscription, "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus," would have been the first archaeological proof that Jesus existed; until then, the only references to the three men were found in manuscripts.
		Another is the Douaumont ossuary in France, which contains the remains of approximately 130,000 soldiers killed in the Battle of Verdun.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ossuary (378 words)

	Biblical Archaeology Society
		The Krumbein report goes on: While the ossuary was in the custody of he IAA "The inscription and surrounding areas was contaminated using silicon-like red material, preventing more comprehensive tests to confirm or disprove previous test results." The red material was apparently used to make a cast of the inscription.
		Goren and Ayalon conducted oxygen isotope tests on the inscription coating (or James Bond), which in their report is the basis for concluding that the inscription is a forgery.
		Professor Goren also condemned the ossuary inscription because he found microfossils of nanoplankton (coccoliths) in the inscription coating that, in Professor Goren's words, "are abundant in marine-derived sedimentary rocks (such as chalk), but are nonexistent in terrain-derived sediments.
	www.bib-arch.org /bswbOOossuary_krumbeinsummary.asp (906 words)

	Royal Ontario Museum \| About the ROM \| News \| Royal Ontario Museum Statement: Oded Golan’s arrest/ James Ossuary
		We considered the James Ossuary an extraordinary opportunity to contribute to the scientific assessment of a new and controversial object by being the first museum to present it to the public, during an important gathering of biblical archaeology scholars, and by hosting a public debate among leading experts.
		The James Ossuary was on display at the ROM from November 15, 2002 to January 5, 2003.
		The studies that were carried out on the inscription and broken fragments of the Ossuary, however, satisfied the ROM’s investigative team that it was an authentic artifact with an authentic inscription that might make it the Ossuary of James, the brother of Jesus.
	www.rom.on.ca /news/releases/public.php?mediakey=vhggdo3048 (525 words)

	LiveScience.com - Voice of Reason: The 'James Ossuary' and the Need for Skepticism
		Nickell says that the ossuary's defenders turned science and the burden of proof upside down, jumping to the conclusion that the ossuary's inscription was authentic, sticking to their assumptions after new evidence came out, and demanding others to prove it a forgery.
		While his magazine touted the James Ossuary as a great archeological find in 2002, its position now is that it does not know whether the artifact is forged or Golan is a forger.
		The ossuary that reputedly held the bones of James, Jesus' brother, with an inscription in Aramaic "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus'' is seen in this undated photo.
	www.livescience.com /history/reason_ossuary_050112.html (1116 words)

	The James Ossuary - by Dr. Paul L. Maier
		Researchers have uncovered a 2,000-year-old ossuary - a box that held bones - that bears the inscription "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus." This may be the first archaeological evidence that refers directly to Jesus and identifies James as His brother.
		Against authenticity: Unfortunately, the ossuary was not discovered in situ, that is, it did not come to light in the course of an archaeological dig as was the case in the two previous.
		And finally, the Israel Geological Survey submitted the ossuary to a variety of scientific tests, which determined that the limestone of the ossuary had a patina or sheen consistent with a many-centuries-long sojourn in a cave.
	www.mtio.com /articles/bissar95.htm (1563 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		An ossuary is an ancient limestone box that (at one time) contained the bones of a deceased person that were salvaged from his/her tomb.
		James himself eventually reaches a top—if not the top—leadership position in the Jerusalem church (Acts 12:17; 15:13; 21:18; Gal 1:19, cf.
		Bottom line: If the ossuary of James bar-Joseph is that of James the brother of the Lord, it sheds light on which of the theories Catholics are permitted to hold is most likely the correct one, but it poses does nothing to refute Catholic doctrine.
	www.ntrmin.org /ossuaryofjames.htm (3603 words)

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