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The Enigmatic Reliquary of James the Brother of Jesus

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April 30, 2012
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In a Washington press conference co-hosted by the Discovery Channel and the Biblical Archaeology Society in October 21, 2002 the existence of the James Ossuary was announced. The ossuary, a 2000-year old chalk box for the internment of human bones, had an Aramaic inscription on it: Ya’akov bar-Yosef  akhui diYeshua – translated as “James,...
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