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Article: Unearthing clues to 'Jesus' brother'.(Book Review)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- June 20, 2003
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THE BROTHER OF JESUS: THE DRAMATIC STORY AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FIRST ARCHEOLOGICAL LINK TO JESUS AND HIS FAMILY By Herschel Shanks and Ben Witherington III
Harper SanFrancisco, 240 pages, $24.95
A Jewish ossuary, a stone box, provenance unknown, used to gather the bones of the deceased, has generated this book. The practice of using such "bone boxes" was widespread in Israel across the first and second centuries C.E. This particular ossuary, recently made public, bears a remarkable Aramaic inscription: Ya'aqob bar Yoseph 'ahui de Yeshua': "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus." Is this the final resting place for the remains of the figure from the ...