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As well as james, there s joses, judas and simon alongside at least two unnamed sisters, but exactly whose offspring these other children are is still the subject of debate. for catholics, there is an emphasis on mary s virginity. she was not only a virgin at the time of jesus conception and birth but also afterwards, so that s why i like to think of james, the brother of jesus, as probably a child from joseph s prior marriage, before he married mary. but not all christians are in agreement. the protestants would say there are other children that are the biological kids of mary and joseph, in which case jesus would be the older brother and perhaps the other siblings of jesus would have looked up to him. ....
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 joseph died, but somewhere about ....
27 ad, joseph is nowhere on the scene. family is the central core of first-century jewish society. they had lost somebody who could be providing for this family who were essentially living at a kind of subsistence level. the family would really have relied on jesus to pick up the slack, to provide it for the family. they would have really needed his income. but aged around 30, jesus makes a life-changing choice. jesus leaves the family and goes walkabout in galilee and judea. according to the gospels, jesus seeks out john the baptist on the banks of the river jordan. ....
back in 1970s jerusalem, there is a vibrant market for antique ossuaries. i didn t see anything particular in this ossuary. it was sat for many years at my parents apartment together with several other ossuaries that i purchased at that time because i didn t put any special attention to this ossuary. but in april 2002, golan invites andre lemaire, a renowned scholar of ancient aramaic, to examine some items in his collection. lemaire s attention is immediate drawn to the unidentified ossuary golan bought 30 years before. lemaire deciphers the mysterious inscription. it reads, james, son of joseph, brother of jesus. he found that there is a very high probability that it belonged to james, the brother of jesus christ. ....
An ossuary, scientifically dated to the time of christ. on its side, an inscription in ancient aramaic which reads james, son of joseph, brother of jesus. it came just as we d crossed the millennium threshold. we d already had the y2k bug. we had the pope s millennial visit to the holy land, and this seemed to be another one of those sort of millennial happenings. it s claimed that this box, measuring 10 inches by 20, is no less than the burial casket of james, the brother of jesus christ. the ossuary is so important, not just for the fact that it says, the brother of jesus, ....