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Article: Burial box may have held bones of Jesus' brother: ossuary cracks on way to Toronto museum. (News).
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- Presbyterian Record
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- December 1, 2002
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A small, nondescript limestone box found in a cave outside Jerusalem 16 years ago by an Arab villager, who sold it to a local antiquities dealer who, in turn, sold it to a collector for a few hundred dollars, may once have contained the bones of James, brother of Jesus. It sounds like a story made in Hollywood. But, according to an article in the November/December issue of the scholarly journal Biblical Archaeology Review, it's true. The 50-centimetre box, called an ossuary, has almost no ornamentation except for a simple Aramaic inscription: Ya'akov bar Yosef akhui di Yeshua -- James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus."
"I was very excited," said French ...