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	Oded Golan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Golan and those working with him claim to have found a number of remarkable ancient artifacts, the discovery of which have excited great controversy.
		The film alleged Golan (working with a team of people, including an expert in ancient semitic languages and an artisan) had produced a number of forged artifacts for sale on the religious antiquities market.
		Oded Golan describes the film as "rumor", saying it contained no real evidence and was part of a "media circus".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oded_Golan (306 words)

	James Ossuary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Identity of the owner was published in the Israeli daily newspaper Ha'aretz: a well-known collector of antiquities, Oded Golan, an engineer living in Tel Aviv, stated that he had bought the ossuary from an Arab antiquities dealer in the Old City of Jerusalem decades before, but had been unaware of the significance of the inscription.
		Oded denied that he was the owner of the stone and claimed that the real owner was a Palestinian antiquities dealer who lived in an area under Palestinian Authority and must therefore remain nameless.
		Under interrogation, Golan promised to reveal the locations of the stone in exchange for immunity from prosecution but was refused.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_ossuary (1578 words)

	Trial sheds light on shadowy antiquities world - The Boston Globe
		Oded Golan, shown in Tel Aviv last week, is on trial for allegedly forging antiquities including an ossuary said to be the burial box of Jesus’s brother.
		Oded Golan, the first accused, shot to worldwide attention in November 2002 as the man behind a sensational discovery that rocked the world of biblical antiquities: a first-century stone ossuary, or burial box, with an ancient Hebrew inscription identifying it as the last resting place of ''James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus."
		Golan was arrested on suspicion of violating Israel's antiquities laws and repeatedly interrogated while police raided his apartment and two other properties in Tel Aviv.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/05/16/trial_sheds_light_on_shadowy_antiquities_world?page=full (992 words)

	The History Merchants reviewed by Rochelle Altman
		Oded Golan enters, seated at his blonde grand piano set in the middle of a spacious room and surrounded with tiers of glass shelves, packed with artifacts, set against the distant walls.
		Golan's apartment, with its rooms running back the length of the building and spanning roughly 25 meters across the frontage, is an apartment with a price tag of at least $800,000 in US currency.
		Here is Oded Golan, who probably would have been better cast as a piano teacher of beginning and intermediate students — at least he displays that he is competent on the instrument for the camera, though he is by no means on a par with a professional concert pianist.
	www.bibleinterp.com /articles/Altman_Uvda_review2.htm (625 words)

	Diggings Resources - The weekly picture
		Golan asserted his version of the discovery of the ossuary and his claim that it is authentic and even hinted to a conspiracy by the Israel Antiquities Authority against him.
		Oded spoke for three hours straight but it was more of a monologue than a dialogue or interview.
		With regard to the claim that the ossuary is a fake, Oded Golan said, "It is still possible 0.0000000000000001% that the James ossuary is a fake.
	www.diggingsonline.com /pages/rese/magaz1ne/samp35.htm (1067 words)

	RaptureChrist Newsletter December 1, 2002
		The owner is Oded Golan, a 51 year old engineer from Tel Aviv and one of the largest private antiquities collectors in Israel with a collection of over 3,000 pieces.
		Oded Golan studied at the Tichon Hadash high school in Tel Aviv, and engineering at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa.
		Oded, according to his mother, showed an interest in archaeology from an early age; he joined Yigael Yadin’s excavation at Masada when he was only 11 years old.
	www.rapturechrist.com /newsletterdec1_2002.htm (817 words)

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		Oded Golan has been criticized for packing the artifact only in bubble wrap and cardboard for its shipment from Tel Aviv to Canada, where it is to be displayed at the Royal Ontario Museum.
		Golan says he personally supervised the packing of the bone box "by one of the most reputable shippers of highly valued artifacts in Israel" as it was wrapped "in at least 10 layers of bubble wrap," he told Toronto's Globe and Mail.
		Golan claims he purchased the box that has caused a stir in the Christian world when he was just 16.
	www.bpnews.net /storydownload.asp?ID=14624 (671 words)

	RNSC-OSSUARY-GOLAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Golan, 48, a collector born and bred directly in that tradition, first began gathering odd bits of antiquity in the early 1960s while on youthful hikes across the country in an era when field exploration of the Holy Land was a popular pastime for citizens of the young Israeli state.
		By the time Golan was drafted into the army at 18, he was a serious collector, patronizing the Arab-owned antiquities shops of East Jerusalem's Old City and the adjacent Silwan Valley.
		Handwriting experts largely concurred that the style of the letters was particularly suitable to the period between 30 and 70 A.D. As the evidence of authenticity seems to mount, Golan remains uncertain about his plans for the ossuary.
	www.cp.org /premium/ONLINE/member/religion/030122/2012207AU.html (1081 words)

	David Rowan: Is Oded Golan behind biblical scholarship's biggest fraud ring? An unholy row goes to court (The Daily ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In a navy Eeyore sweatshirt and loose-fitting jeans, Oded Golan sits at his elderly parents' living-room table in northern Tel Aviv, wearily denouncing the case against him as 'Kafkaesque'.
		Golan, an unmarried serial entrepreneur, has been in jail for the past month, accused of unlawfully contacting a witness.
		If Golan is at the head of a 'ring', in none of the 18 charges is he linked with more than one other defendant.
	www.davidrowan.com /2005/05/is-oded-golan-behind-biblical.html (3270 words)

	Oded - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition - HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Oded Cohen has been appointed general manager of Gadot Petrochemical Industries Ltd. He studied economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and has served as deputy general manager at Gadot.
		Oded Marani (second from left), the general director of the Ministry of Finance, was a visitor to the Israel Diamond Exchange complex...
		Oded Golan, the antiquities collector who claimed t have the James ossuary--the burial box of Jesus' brother--in his possession...
	www.highbeam.com /ref/doc0.asp?docid=1E1:Oded (351 words)

	ABC News: Excerpt: 'The Jesus Dynasty' by James D. Tabor
		Golan agreed, and arrangements were made for experts at the Geological Survey of Israel in Jerusalem to examine it.
		Both the IAA committee conclusions and the indictment against Oded Golan were widely reported in the media, giving the public the impression that the experts had now concluded that the James Ossuary was a forgery.6 Such is hardly the case, and the authenticity issue is far from settled.7
		Oded Golan expanded upon his "Silwan" in an informal social conversation with Rafi Lewis at Golan's apartment in December 2002.
	abcnews.go.com /GMA/Books/story?id=1746724&page=2 (2381 words)

	Oded Golan bio - Center for the Study of Antiquity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Oded Golan was born in 1951 in Tel Aviv, Israel, the second son of Eliezer, a leading industrial engineer, and Rivka, a professor of microbiology, who were among the pioneering and founding families of the new State of Israel.
		Golan went to a technical high school, and then he served in the Israel Defense Forces.
		Golan’s passion for his hobby and his knowledge of archaeology has resulted in a collection of thousands of pieces, some extremely rare, which represent the material culture of the Land of Israel from the fifth millenium B.C.E. to the sixth century A.D. Center for the Study of Antiquity
	www.studyantiquity.org /guests/lecture-series/2004-oded-golan (314 words)

	Ossuary dealer's arrest stirs more controversy - News - forgery investigation of antiquities dealer, Oded Golan ...
		The debate intensified with the arrest of Oded Golan, the Tel Aviv antiquities dealer who has been under suspicion of systematically counterfeiting relics since Israeli police discovered tools used for inscription and partially inscribed stones in his apartment.
		Golan, who said he insured for $1 million the box inscribed "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus," was released on bail and had not been charged by the end of July.
		Despite the mounting evidence against Golan, a number of experts stand by his contention that the Aramaic inscription is ancient.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1058/is_17_120/ai_107397246 (434 words)

	Biblical Archaeology Society
		Israeli antiquities collector Oded Golan, who owns the now-famous bone box inscribed “James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus,” was arrested at his Tel Aviv home Monday, July 21, on suspicion of forging ancient artifacts.
		Golan has denied ever owning the Jehoash inscription.” According to news reports, police said they found the James ossuary”; in an unsecure bathroom on the roof of Golan’s home; BAR has learned that the ossuary was confiscated by police.
		Golan denies all allegations, according to Ha’aretz, and claims the rooftop workroom where forging equipment was allegedly discovered is in fact used by an Egyptian friend of his who often stays in his home.
	www.bib-arch.org /bswbOOossuary_arrest.asp (251 words)

	James Ossuary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shanks belittled his critics and defended Oded Golan.
		Oded Golan claimed publicly to believe his findings were genuine.
		Golan was indicted in an Israeli court along with his three co-conspirators: Robert Deutsch, an epigraphy expert who has given lectures at Haifa University; collector Shlomo Cohen; and antiquities dealer Faiz al-Amaleh.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Ossuary (1578 words)

	[CPProt.net] selected reports May 20, 2004
		Obviously, Golan made sure not to mention the ossuary that he had in his possession and to tell me that he intended to send it to Toronto a month later." Anger could be heard in his voice.
		Oded Golan is not the only one to have acted in such a manner, and almost a dozen or so other names have cropped up in the course of the investigation - who we cannot mention here for legal reasons.
		Obviously, Oded Golan was there, presented as the top man of a true Mafia, and also a certain "R", an illiterate citizen of Egypt and yet a genial forger in the service of Golan.
	te.verweg.com /pipermail/cpprot/2004-May/000405.html (9300 words)

	rogueclassicism: Ossuary Trial Update
		His client is Oded Golan, an antiquities collector charged with forging part of the inscription on the ossuary and faking two other artifacts.
		Golan, one of the largest collectors in Israel, says he purchased it from an Arab antiquities dealer in the mid-1970s for a bout $200.
		Golan says the dealer he bought it from told him it came from Silwan, a village south of the Old City of Jerusalem.
	www.atrium-media.com /rogueclassicism/Posts/00003994.html (1617 words)

	Society of Biblical Literature
		Oded Golan: a collector from Tel Aviv who is accused of fabricating and selling inscriptions.
		A cache of 162 bullae (Golan and Deutsch are accused).
		Other miscellaneous accusations against Oded Golan alone: The indictment also mentions a number of miscellaneous actions that are alleged to have been carried out by Golan-paying bribes and destroying evidence.
	www.sbl-site.org /Article.aspx?ArticleId=373 (4065 words)

	The Experts and the Ossuary by Paul Flesher
		Golan opened by saying that he had been collecting antiquities since he was 8 year old, and now owned the “largest” collection of such objects.
		Oded Golan then came to the podium and said that he had been collecting since he was 8 and now had a collection of over 3000 items, including over 30 ossuaries.
		Golan then made the observation that most biblical materials are now in private hands and would probably remain private unless their owners felt more welcome to share the materials without censure.
	itp.lccc.wy.edu /bibint2/articles/The_experts.htm (3797 words)

	israelinsider: Culture: Antiquities dealer suspected of forging James ossuary
		Golan continues to maintain that the so-called James ossuary, with the inscription "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus," and the "Joash inscription," a stone tablet with fifteen lines of ancient Hebrew detailing improvements at the Temple, are authentic.
		Golan's attorneys said that after he was questioned by police in March on the Joash tablet, Golan made no efforts to hide evidence in his home even though he knew that police were still investigating the case.
		Golan, who owned both the ossuary and the stone tablet, was under investigation for attempting to sell antiquities that belong legally to the State of Israel.
	web.israelinsider.com /bin/en.jsp?enPage=ArticlePage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Article^l2542&enZone=Culture&enVersion=0 (575 words)

	James Box Updates 2004 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Golan, who was present, declared through his attorney that this was a totally unreasonable request.
		That coating happened to be oxide traces of a cleaner which the mother of the box’s owner, Oded Golan, had earlier used to clean the inscription.
		Oded Golan, the owner of the James Box, is charged with tampering with that box and destroying a seal.
	www.sdadefend.com /James-box-Updates.htm (5044 words)

	Battle box (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Oded Golan, 52, is a soft-spoken engineer who lives in Tel Aviv, Israel.
		Golan is a wealthy man and does not store his collection in dirty bathrooms.
		Lemaire is well-acquainted with Golan and says he does not have the knowledge or skill to be an inscription forger.
	www.harrypottermagic.org /Battle-box.htm (3901 words)

	CBSNews.com: Print This Story
		Dealer Oded Golan was arrested Monday at his home in Tel Aviv, police said, on suspicion of forging and dealing in fake antiquities.
		Golan was involved in the discovery of two items that shook the religious and archaeological world -- an ossuary, or burial box, with the inscription, ''James, the brother of Jesus,'' leading to speculation that it referred to the brother of Jesus of Nazareth.
		Golan first showed the ossuary to a French collector last year, saying he owned it.
	uttm.com /stories/2003/07/22/world/printable564544.shtml (362 words)

	wcbstv.com - Holy Fake? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Golan says it was in 2002 when an eminent scholar happened to see the ossuary at his home, and told him what the writing could mean.
		Golan doesn't try to deny that he kept the ossuary on the toilet, but he says don't leap to unwarranted conclusions.
		The latest twist: Oded Golan reportedly tried to sell fakes to major museums in London, Paris and New York, and he may have succeeded.
	wcbstv.com /topstories/topstories_story_354203632.html (1837 words)

	LiveScience.com - Voice of Reason: The 'James Ossuary' and the Need for Skepticism
		(Golan said that he had bought the ossuary in the Old City [old Jerusalem] "in the 1970s," paying an Arab antiquities dealer he can no longer identify.) Furthermore, Andre Lemaire, a French paleographic expert who collaborated with BAR in assessing the ossuary's authenticity, had originally claimed that the ossuary was otherwise unadorned.
		"Oded Golan's indictment is sad news for every party that defended the ossuary's authenticity," says Nickell, who is author of Detecting Forgery.
		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.
	www.livescience.com /history/reason_ossuary_050112.html (1136 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Theater/Arts / Supposed Solomon's Temple relic has been declared a forgery
		Among those to be indicted is Israeli collector Oded Golan, the Justice Ministry confirmed.
		Golan, who denied wrongdoing, owns the two most spectacular artifacts declared fakes last year: a burial chest purported to be that of James, the brother of Jesus, and a stone tablet with inscriptions on how to maintain the Jewish Temple.
		The pomegranate was examined independently of the probe by the Israeli authorities, said James Snyder, the director of the Israel Museum.
	www.boston.com /ae/theater_arts/articles/2004/12/25/supposed_solomons_temple_relic_has_been_declared_a_forgery (709 words)

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