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	Ossuary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An ossuary is a chest, building, well or site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains.
		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, which until then, the only references to the three men were found in manuscripts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ossuary (365 words)

	Sedlec Ossuary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sedlec Ossuary (Czech: kostnice Sedlec) is a small Christian chapel, located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints (Czech: Hřbitovní kostel Všech Svatých) in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic.
		Henry, the abbot of the Cistercian monastery in Sedlec was sent to the Holy Land by King Otakar II of Bohemia in 1278.
		Around 1400 a Gothic church was built in the center of the cemetery with a vaulted upper level and a lower chapel to be used as an ossuary for the mass graves unearthed during construction, or simply slated for abolition to make room for new burials.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sedlec_Ossuary (503 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 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 sometime during the Herodian period.
	web.israelinsider.com /Views/1601.htm (3926 words)

	James' Ossuary Found
		The ossuary belonged to an antique collector in Tel Aviv, Oded Golan who showed it to an ancient script scholar, Andre Lemaire during his routine visit to Jerusalem April to September.
		The ossuary was on display in Toronto, Canada from November 16 for a month; it was badly damaged in transit but was patched up.
		The criticism has already been raised that the last part of the inscription, 'the brother of Jesus' may be a later work, due to its cursive and semi-cursive script, in contrast with the square script of the first part, 'James, son of Joseph' (true first century script).
	www.biblediscoveries.com /ossuary.html (1008 words)

	ossuary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Because of this, we should be honest: this ossuary now stands at the center of the ideological battles that have traditionally been waged between Christians, on the one hand, and religious skeptics, atheists, agnostics, mythicists, and others, on the other hand.
		The translation is: "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus." Although the ossuary itself supposedly dates to 62 or 63 AD, as mentioned above, the second of two inscriptions on the ossuary is still under debate, some claiming that that second inscription is genuine, others claiming that that inscription is a fake.
		Altman is of the opinion that the ossuary is definitely genuine; that the first half of the inscription ["James, son of Joseph."] is genuine; but that the last half of the inscription ["Brother of Jesus"] is a fraud that was inscribed into the ossuary at some later date.
	www.tombofjesus.com /ossuary.htm (3288 words)

	James Ossuary needs further investigation, professor says - (BP) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--The so-called James Ossuary needs a careful, in-depth examination by a scientific team to determine, once and for all, whether it is an authentic relic in which the brother of Jesus was buried or merely a common first-century burial box with a phony inscription, a Southern Baptist seminary professor says.
		The ossuary that made a worldwide splash in 2002 was back in the news Dec. 29 when police in Jerusalem filed criminal indictments against four antiquities collectors, accusing them of forging biblical artifacts, many so skillfully that they fooled experts.
		Whether the James Ossuary is ever authenticated or not is a matter of significance for the field of archaeology but is not pivotal in bolstering of the historicity of Christianity, Ortiz said.
	www.sbcbaptistpress.org /bpnews.asp?ID=19843 (1099 words)

	USATODAY.com - Fake ossuary leads Israel to look into sellers of antiquities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		An Israeli documentary Wednesday claimed the James ossuary, the ancient burial box bearing a discredited inscription mentioning Jesus, is just the tip of a long-running forgery ring that has duped antiquities collectors worldwide for the last 15 years.
		Scientists all agree the ossuary is a genuine artifact from the era of the New Testament, but many scholars believe the inscription was added recently.
		Ossuaries may typically sell for a few hundred dollars, and they are a regular archaeological find in Israel.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-02-18-israel-antiques-usat_x.htm (503 words)

	James Ossuary Earliest Reference to Jesus : Laurence Gardner
		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 limestone ossuary inscribed "Jesus son of Joseph" (65 cm x 25 cm x 30 cm) came to Western attention when the BBC was preparing for a TV programme in conjunction with the J. Arthur Rank company CTVC.
		The Jesus ossuary was soon brought to their attention, along with the collection of ossuraries from the same family tomb.
	www.graal.co.uk /ossuary.html (1960 words)

	TBK - Bone-Box No Proof of Jesus
		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 Aramaic inscriptions on the "Jewish" ossuaries seem to be mainly warnings, advising "Do not open it." It is possible that inscriptions written in Aramaic were designed for the common people, the speakers of the vulgar lingua franca, rather than for the elite, for whom the Greek and Hebrew inscriptions were written.
		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 (5581 words)

	The 'James' Ossuary Inscription
		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 apparently wide variations in ossuary inscriptions come from a simple fact: these ossuary inscriptions are covenants, vows to affirm continuing respect for the deceased in spite of having disinterred his/her remains.
		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.
	www.aish.com /societyWork/sciencenature/The_James_Ossuary_Inscription.asp (2027 words)

	The Ossuary of James
		The ossuary was then placed in a niche (loculi or kokh) area of the burial cave for permanent storage.
		The cursive shape of three engraved letters would date the ossuary to the last decades of 70 A.D. Further, laboratory tests by the Geological Survey of Israel concluded that the ossuary has no modern elements and appears to be genuine.
		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)

	James' Ossuary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		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.
		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.
	www.luthersepiphany.com /luthersepiphany_032.htm (1442 words)

	Crosswalk.com - Biblical Archaeology, Part II: Authenticity of James Ossuary
		This article is the second in a series (read Part I here) devoted to the James Ossuary, and is devoted to a consideration of arguments suggesting that the ossuary is not authentic.
		The entire case against the authenticity of the James ossuary box is rooted in the inscription found on the side of the box.
		Therefore, the ossuary is not what many of you hope it is, according to some of the scientists who have examined it.
	www.crosswalk.com /news/1189304.html (1031 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)

	The Stone Box - CBS News
		Ossuaries were used to hold the bones of the dead approximately 2,000 years ago, in the time of Jesus.
		"The ossuary was kept more or less secret by a small group of scholars who knew about it," says Neil Silberman, a historian of archaeology who believes the box was presented to the public by people more interested in showmanship than science.
		He's been checking the ossuary's patina, the residue that gathered on the surface of the stone box over the past 2,000 years.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/12/17/60minutes/main661815.shtml (1850 words)

	James Ossuary, Bone Box, Hoax or History?
		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.
		Now, when we apply this understanding to the evidence for the James Ossuary, we are faced with the claim that this ossuary is the bone box of James, the brother of Jesus.
	answers.org /apologetics/jamesbonebox.html (1791 words)

	University of Cincinnati News: Steven Fine Ossuary with Pyramids
		He noticed a unique image carved into the surface of the ossuary: a building resting upon a broad pedestal and topped with three triangles representing ancient pyramids, or cones, atop a tomb.
		The scholar reports on his discovery in the published version of his 2001 Rabbi Louis Feinberg Memorial Lecture, Art and Identity in Latter Second Temple Period Judaea: The Hasmonean Royal Tombs at Modi'in, which is scheduled for distribution Oct. 29 at the final lecture of Judaic Studies' Lichter Lecture Series at UC.
		In first-century Jerusalem, ossuaries were commonly used to store the skeletal remains of loved ones after they had decomposed for a year or so in a tomb or mausoleum.
	www.uc.edu /news/fine.htm (643 words)

	USATODAY.com - James ossuary opens a Pandora's box of suspected fakes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		ATLANTA — Six months after the James ossuary was declared a fake, the ancient burial box bearing an inscription mentioning Jesus continues to rock the world of biblical archaeology.
		Scholars are now on the trail of more possible forgeries and questioning the roles their colleagues play in the authentication of relics that turn out to be fake.
		In June, the Israeli authority declared the ossuary's inscription a fake.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2003-11-25-ossuary-usat_x.htm (594 words)

	Ossuary Tales
		Lemaire believes the 20-inch-long box, or ossuary, once held the bones of James, brother of the biblical Jesus, who was stoned to death in A.D. 62, according to the first-century historian Flavius Josephus.
		Around October 7, Golan requested a permit from the IAA for the temporary export of two ossuaries, to be displayed at a late November convention of biblical scholars in Toronto.
		When the ossuary returns at the end of February, the IAA will have 90 days to decide if it wants to buy or rule that it cannot be sold outside of Israel.
	www.archaeology.org /0301/newsbriefs/ossuary.html (1072 words)

	Kostnice Ossuary, Kutna Hora, Sedlec, Church of Bones
		This is Sedlec’s Church of All Saints ossuary in the Czech Republic.
		The ossuary itself is situated in the basement of the All Saint’s Chapel.
		In the four corners of the ossuary sit four ‘bells’, pile upon pile of bones carefully stacked with a hollowed centre.
	www.artgraphica.net /art-shop/prague-kutna-hora-bone-church.htm (1275 words)

	Jesus' Brother's "Bone Box" Closer to Being Authenticated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Summary Questions raised about the authenticity of a 2,000-year-old ossuary thought to have once held the bones of James, the brother of Jesus, may be a step closer to resolution.
		The authenticity of the ossuary itself was generally accepted, but many scholars questioned whether all or part of the inscription, which reads "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus," was a forgery.
		The authenticity of the ossuary itself was generally accepted, but many scholars questioned whether all or part of the inscription was a forgery.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2003/04/0418_030418_jesusrelic.html (1032 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.
		One of those ossuaries - carrying the name Jesus, son of Joseph (in Hebrew, catalogue no. 80.503) - was found in a family cave in March 1980 in southern Jerusalem.
		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.
	www.jesusneverexisted.com /James-box.html (2830 words)

	James Ossuary: Bone (Box) of Contention (Skeptical Inquirer March 2003)
		Such an ossuary, or "bone box," was used to store bones in Jewish burial practice during the period from the first century b.c.
		Many scholars were horrified that the ossuary had apparently been looted from its burial site--not just because looting is illegal and immoral, but because an artifact's being robbed of its context "compromises everything," according to P. Kyle McCarter Jr., who chairs the Near Eastern studies department at Johns Hopkins University.
		A look at a number of ossuaries (Figueras 1983; Goodenough 1953) shows that the name might be engraved on the decorated side if there were space for it; otherwise it might be cut on the top, an end, or the back.
	www.csicop.org /si/2003-03/bonebox.html (2314 words)

	Discovery Channel :: Stone Box Linked to Jesus Called Fa
		The announcement last October that a stone ossuary had been found with the engraving "James, son of Joseph and brother of Jesus" was greeted with much excitement as well as skepticism in archaeological circles.
		One specialist who studied the ossuary, Rochelle Altman, argued that the inscription "Jacob (James) son of Joseph" was carved in the 1st century, which would be consistent with the events in question.
		However, she said the second part — "brother of Joshua (Jesus)" — was in a different hand and style that was added later, possibly as late as the 3rd or 4th centuries.
	dsc.discovery.com /news/afp/20030616/jesusfake.html (497 words)

	Jan Svankmajer: The Ossuary [Kostnice] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The ossuary in question is the famous Sedlec Ossuary near Kutná Hora, which was constructed in the last century out of thousands of skeletons of victims of the Black Death.
		Leonardo's Diary fits that description, as does The Ossuary in its original form, where the banal, pedestrian, Party-line comments of the tour guide were deliberately counterpointed with the riot of skeletal imagery.
		The ossuary is in the chapel of the nearby Church of All Saints graveyard.
	www.illumin.co.uk /svank/films/ossuary/ossuary.html (630 words)

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