First Person: Taking It Personally

I was talking to a scholar/friend who was a member of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) committee that had declared the ossuary inscribed “James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus” to be a fake. I will refer to the person as “he” simply because I don’t want to keep repeating “he or she.” In short, he was a little angry with me. He was referring to Sorbonne scholar André Lemaire’s piece in the November/December 2003 BAR (“Israel Antiquities Authority Report on the James Ossuary Deeply Flawed”). “You didn’t print the other side,” he said. “I would certainly print the […]