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First Person: “Brother of Jesus” Inscription—Authentic or a Forgery?

By Hershel Shanks

“If this is a forgery, I quit,” declared Israel’s leading paleographer, Ada Yardeni, regarding the inscription on an ancient bone box, or ossuary, reading “James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus.”

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Footnotes

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Most recently in “Predilections—Is the ‘Brother of Jesus’ Inscription a Forgery?” BAR 41:05.

Endnotes

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Pieter W. van der Horst, Saxa Judaica Loquuntur: Lessons from Early Jewish Inscriptions, Biblical Interpretation Series 134 (Leiden: Brill, 2015), p. 81.