I love this stuff (archeology) and can’t get enough.
That’s so very cool.
SC—one for your GGG files.
One of the tomb robbers pled for forgiveness, saying “Ossouary sorry, souary, uary sorry”
It would be interesting to know if Caiaphas’ son was born before or after the confrontation. If he was born afterwards, it would be hard to imagine Caiaphas naming his son after the Nazarene he so opposed unless he had a change of heart at some point.
And in Acts 4, you almost get the sense that Caiaphas had softened a little. Otherwise he might have had Peter and John executed as well.
Still the simplest explanation is that the kid was born before and they just named him a name that was quite common at the time. (Friends probably called him Josh.) And by “coincidence” it was also Jesus’ name.
Think about Caiaphas ordering the trial of someone with the same name as his son, whose major crime in the eyes of the priests was that he equated himself with his father, God. I can see a lot of serious internal conflict for the guy.
It will be recognized as genuine until it’s recognized as fake.