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Jesus' Brother James' Burial Box Foun    

A limestone burial box engraved in Aramaic with the words "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus" could be the earliest archaeological evidence of the existence of the Biblical Jesus, says an inscriptions expert.

"It seems very probable that this is the ossuary of the James in the New Testament," Andre Lemaire at the Sorbonne University in Paris writes in the Biblical Archaeology Review. "If so, this would mean that we have here the first epigraphic mention-from about 63 A.D.-of Jesus of Nazareth."

Lemaire accepts that it may be impossible to prove that the Jesus mentioned on the 50-centimeter-long box is indeed the Jesus of Nazareth described in the Bible.
There is no organic material in the empty box, so radiocarbon dating is impossible. But based on his analysis of the style of the script and the position of certain words, Lemaire believes the inscription was made around 63 A.D.

Lemaire's tentative date of 63 A.D. comes from the writings of a first century historian called Josephus. He states that James, "the brother of Jesus," was stoned to death in 62 A.D. At the time, Jewish burials involved placing the body in a sealed rock tomb for a year, then collecting the bones and placing them in an ossuary box.

https://www.mercola.com/2002/nov/6/brother_of_jesus.htm

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This is a very interesting discovery, please make sure to follow up on it so we can know if it has been verified.

Jesus' Brother James' Burial Box Foun     Studies Doctrine Mormon

Yes, I will. This discovery actually was in November last year, it surprised me that it didn't got so much repercusion. But I will make sure to follow up and post it in here.

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This was later proven to be a fraud. It seems that the name on it was authentic but not the relation to Jesus.