From ABC.COM:
...The inscription, in the Aramaic language, appears on an empty ossuary, or
limestone burial box for bones. It reads: "James, son of Joseph, brother of
Jesus." Lemaire dates the object to 63 A.D. Lemaire says the writing style,
and the fact that Jews practiced ossuary burials only between 20 B.C. and
A.D. 70, puts the inscription squarely in the time of Jesus and James, who
led the early church in Jerusalem. All three names were commonplace, but he
estimates that only 20 Jameses in Jerusalem during that era would have had a
father named Joseph and a brother named Jesus.
I'm curious if anyone has more details on deriving the odds of "only 20
Jameses..."
Jeff Rasmussen, PhD
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