Footnotes

1.

André Lemaire, “Burial Box of James the Brother of Jesus,BAR 28:06.

2.

The Storm over the Bone Box,BAR 29:05.

3.

Hershel Shanks, “‘Brother of Jesus’ Inscription Is Authentic!BAR 38:04.

4.

Update: Finds or Fakes?BAR 31:02.

Endnotes

1.

Pieter W. van der Horst, Saxa Judaica Loquuntur: Lessons from Early Jewish Inscriptions, Biblical Interpretation Series 134 (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 67–87.

2.

Van der Horst, Saxa Judaica Loquuntur, p. 79.

3.

The following quotes are from Van der Horst, Saxa Judaica Loquuntur, pp. 79­–81.

4.

Van der Horst, Saxa Judaica Loquuntur, pp. 81, 83.

5.

Van der Horst, Saxa Judaica Loquuntur, p. 84, note 44.

6.

In a Christmas interview in 2013, Rollston offered “to wager that the second half [of the inscription] was added in modern times.” By March 2015, the chances went up to 75–85 percent, but no additional explanation was given.

7.

Christopher Rollston, “The James Ossuary (Ya‘akov Ossuary): Bullet Point Synopsis About a Probable Modern Forgery,” Rollston Epigraphy (blog), March 22, 2015, www.rollstonepigraphy.com/?p=699.

8.

Horace, Ars Poetica 359.

9.

If Golan owned the ossuary since the mid-1970s, it would be impossible for it to have come from the Talpiot tomb, as suggested by James Tabor, among others. The tomb was not excavated until 1980.