Jesus artifact a fake.

by Feòrag

An inscription on an ossuary which the Biblical Archaeology Review touted as the first-ever archaeological discovery to corroborate Biblical references to Jesus has been shown to be a blatant forgery. The ossuary genuinely dates from the first century, as does the first half of the Aramaic inscription - Jacob son of Joseph, but the second part - brother of Jesus was added later according to Rochelle I. Altman, an expert on ancient writing.

Please note that the fraud is so blatant that I did not bother to go into extreme detail on whether the faked addition is supposed to be Hebrew or Aramaic. (If that's a vav, -- then it's Hebrew, not Aramaic; if it's yod, then it's says 'my brother', not 'his brother' or 'brother of'. By no stretch of the imagination can one claim this to be in Aramaic... 'of' in Aramaic is 'di'.) You have to be blind as a bat not to see that the second part is a fraud...

Ossuary was genuine, inscription was faked - Israel Insider, October 29th 2002 (includes the full report); Evidence Of Jesus Written In Stone - Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2002.