Editors’ Page: Is Silence Golden?

You’ve probably noticed that our sister magazine Biblical Archaeology Review has been in the news lately, having broken the story, if you’ll excuse the expression, about the bone box inscribed “James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus.” (The box developed serious cracks in transit to the Royal Ontario Museum, in Toronto, for exhibition; these cracks, however, were quickly mended, and the exhibit went on as planned). Numerous questions have been raised about the bone box, or ossuary, and its inscription: Does the box in fact date to the first century? Is the inscription authentic or a modern forgery? Are […]