The forgery that claimed to be his grandfather was easier to pick out, it listed his death as 20 B.C. 
The whole thing stinks as a forgery to me. But hey, they removed the bones. Did they hose it out afterwards? I would think that a rotting corpse would have ample opporunity to leave some DNA morsels in the nooks and crannies.
It’s the kind of inscription that would have come from somone whose family had a re-marriage in it, to specify which marriage the child was born from.
Remember–the answer to the question “Who is my brother?” varies from culture to culture, & the Hebrew culture of 2000 years ago is not our culture today, nor is it even modern Israeli culture.
Very different rules.
Isn’t the dervivation of legitimate Jewish descent through the matrlinial line?
So…who here can tell us if the condition of “brotherhood” in ancient Israel was derived solely from having one parent in common?
It’s the kind of inscription that would have come from somone whose family had a re-marriage in it, to specify which marriage the child was born from.
Remember–the answer to the question “Who is mt brother?” varies from culture to culture, & the Hebrew culture of 2000 years ago is not our culture today, nor is it even modern Israeli culture.
Very different rules.
Isn’t the dervivation of legitimate Jewish descent through the materlinial line?
So…who here can tell us if the condition of “brotherhood” in ancient Israel was derived solely from having one parent in common?
It’s the kind of inscription that would have come from somone whose family had a re-marriage in it, to specify which marriage the child was born from.
Remember–the answer to the question “Who is my brother?” varies from culture to culture, & the Hebrew culture of 2000 years ago is not our culture today, nor is it even modern Israeli culture.
Very different rules.
Isn’t the dervivation of legitimate Jewish descent through the matrlinial line?
So…who here can tell us if the condition of “brotherhood” in ancient Israel was derived solely from having one parent in common?
Bos, take your finger off the enter key. 
in israel today i’m sure you could find many josephs who have sons named jakob (james), and joshua (jesus).
now if the box mention that his brother was known as, the christ or from nazareth, that would have helped out a bit.
the boxes only held bones they weren’t coffins. the bones would be placed in them after they skeletized (sp). so no blood or goo would have leaked into the stone of the box.
also bones of saints are highly prized relics. i’m sure there are bits and pieces of james in churchs in and around jerusalem. good grief, they have days on the church calendar where the finding of john the baptist head is celebrated. apparently they lost and found his head quite a few times.
I don’t have the paper in front of me but the one I saw also said that if the brother’s name is on the box the best explanation was that the brother paid for the funeral. That puts a few kinks in the Chist theory. Unless he managed the second coming to pay this bill and we didn’t hear about it.
So I think it is, just that easily, dismissed.