James "Brother of Jesus" Ossuary--Forgerers Arrested

[ByzantineDixie]

I caught wind of this reading OBOB today...know some of you might be interested in this topic. I hadn't realized that the Israeli Antiquities experts had already declared the find a fake. I really need to pay better attention to the news! :eek:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1414559,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/30/international/middleeast/30mideast.html

Peace

Rose

[KagomeShuko]

I caught wind of this reading OBOB today...know some of you might be interested in this topic. I hadn't realized that the Israeli Antiquities experts had already declared the find a fake. I really need to pay better attention to the news! :eek:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1414559,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/30/international/middleeast/30mideast.html

Peace

Rose
Interesting! I was following the story for awhile around the time it was first claimed to be "found." I never was fully sure either way. I found the reading about it interesting, though.

Stein Auf!
Bridget

[Keys4Praise]

It looks like they've got a crook. Let worldly justice be done, and trans-worldly justice be done by Him who knew no sin, yet knows this man's heart.
:preach:
It is unfortunate that we, as Christians (self included), tend to put our faith in God when the physical evidence corroborates it. But when these very things become cornerstones of our faith, and either disproven, challenged or alleged false, our faith crumbles. We can marvel at physical things, but cannot afford to put our faith in those things. Otherwise, it becomes one step forward, and two steps back.

Our faith should remain in God in Jesus Christ, through the revelation of the Bible, and should not rely on physical objects, no matter what their significance. The physical can let us down, but God himself won't.

[Organist]

I knew about this through "Archaeology Magazine" a while ago that it was most likely a fake, since considering the source from where it came from - a forger's workshop. What else could it have been? Glad they arrested those people. :(

[theologia crucis]

I had heard the Israeli Antiquities folks had declared it a fake, and there was something on one of those news magazines last week (I think) talking to the guy that found it, all it showed the tools and "old dirt" (to help with the patina, etc.) they found in his house. In the news mag, he didn't appear too smart...

[Dr. Martin Luther]

Hang 'em by the thumbs, I say.

Just joking...

:sorry:

[Flipper]

I saw that story. I thought the History Channel did a show on it showing how the Ossuary was false about a year ago.

[ByzantineDixie]

I saw that story. I thought the History Channel did a show on it showing how the Ossuary was false about a year ago.
I did see that special but I didn't think that it was determined for certain that it was a forgery...only that the camp that holds to the beliefs in Mary being ever-virgin and Jesus having no brothers pointed out what eventually was investigated and proved to be forgery? Then again...I don't pay close attention when the TV is on...so I could have missed it. -----R