but you have to understand that there s no physical evidence of the existence of jesus of nazareth dating from the time of jesus. there is nothing except the gospels which were written down decades later. this would be the first physical evidence that jesus of nazareth existed. this is such a landmark. i mean, this is the only material evidence, nonliterary, we have for the family of jesus. i think most people would be extremely surprised to learn that jesus had siblings. even though james is called the brother of jesus in the new testament, most christians grow up learning that mary was a virgin, and that he didn t have any siblings, so i think most people would be astonished. the gospels of both matthew and mark name jesus brothers.
james is a torah-true jew, and he got along apparently just fine with the jewish authorities, but this jewish following in jesus had really taken on a life of its own. it wasn t just another sector of judaism. it was a movement. james eventually sides with paul. this decision will soon revolutionize christianity, but it will also seal james fate. he is now seen as a threat to the jewish religious order. james was the face of early jewish christianity in jerusalem. he represented all of that, and so of course the authorities are going to take out on him whatever they had heard about the revolutionary beliefs about the followers of jesus. at that point, the jewish authorities knew that they couldn t control this. in spite of james good behavior, they still associated
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jerusalem. while the name joseph appears on 7 percent, jesus on 4 and james on 2 percent, fuchs concludes it s improbable that another family combining these three names existed. it is very likely, in my opinion, the james on this ossuary is the james who is the brother of jesus. the likelihood that this could be some other family with those three names, where the father is joseph and the two brothers are james and jesus, seems very unlikely. two thousand years ago, everything changes for the brothers, jesus and james, when joseph dies. we really don t know when