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  • Ossuary was genuine, inscription was faked

    11/01/2002 7:58:40 PM PST · by Vince Ferrer · 24 replies · 514+ views
    Jewsweek ^ | November 1, 2002 | Rochelle I. Altman
    As an expert on scripts and an historian of writing systems, I was asked to examine this inscription and make a report. I did. The bone-box is original; the first inscription, which is in Aramaic, "Jacob son of Joseph," is authentic. The second half of the inscription, "brother of Jesus," is a poorly executed fake and a later addition. This report has already been distributed on at least two scholarly lists. 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...