Joe Zias: “Hershel Has No Sense of Humor”

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A former employee of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) named Joe Zias has for years maintained that he saw the famous bone box (ossuary) inscribed “James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus” in a Jerusalem antiquities shop without the words “brother of Jesus.” If true, the addition of these words to the inscription is clearly a modern forgery.

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Footnotes

“Lying Scholars?” BAR, 30:03.

See Strata: “Five Years and Counting—The Forgery Trial,” BAR, March/April 2012.

Endnotes

Joe Zias, “Re: [biblical-studies] on talpiot,” sent to biblicalstudies@yahoogroups.com on January 12, 2012.