My mistake then. Thanks for the correction.
They wouldn’t have since the Empty Tomb/physical resurrection stories didn’t come along until after Paul, near as anybody can tell. Assuming this is his family tomb, purchased after James started making good and he or some followers thought he and his family needed a more upscale resting place, AND assuming the Joseph of Arimithea story is true and Jesus didn’t, at best, get tossed in an unmarked grave or, at worst, rot on the cross then have his bones tossed in a fire in Gehenna, AND assuming that someone was willing to defile himself by trotting Jesus’ bones across town, it would be natural to mark the box. Nobody knew it was a secret and the only folks going in there would be family.
While I purposely (because I’m a wiseass) come off as someone who has entirely dismissed the hypotheses presented by the people on the show, I am trying to put my finger on why the whole thing makes me uncomfortable. It’s not the religious effects. I’m pretty much an atheist and, even when I wasn’t, never thought the non-divinity of Jesus to be a dealbreaker. I think it has something to do with, “Since James was fairly famous, and Jesus was the founder of a sect which was getting some growth by the time of Paul, when there were still some folks around who knew them, then why wasn’t their tomb more of a tourist trap?” The Ancients were big on tourist traps.
It’s pushing me to learn more. Some people might think that is a good thing but others might think it’s pointless, like pouring water into a leaky jar.
On the subject of names, I kept waiting for them to mention that variants of Miriam were in fact so common that Herod the Great had at least TWO wives named Mariamne (the first Mariamne well known to all students of that time period and the subject of a Lord Byron poem). Herod’s family also included a Joseph (and of course Joseph[us] was the name of the most famous historian of the family).