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Or are you more the type to deny the existence of Jesus despite much physical evidence saying otherwise? ******** Jesus Inscription Ripe for Debate Tue Oct 22, 2:20 AM ET By RICHARD N. OSTLING, AP Religion Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Archaeologists are expecting a long-running debate over the reported discovery of a first-century inscription naming Jesus of Nazareth. Writing in the new issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, Andre Lemaire of France's Practical School of Higher Studies says it's 'very probable' that an inscription on a burial box for bones refers to Jesus of Nazareth and was written around A.D. 63. The inscription reads, 'James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus.' That would fit the New Testament account that Jesus had a brother named James, and the tradition that James was the son of Joseph, the husband of Jesus' mother Mary. The sensational claim, if true, could become one of the great archaeological discoveries in modern times. But there's this major question: Did this box name Jesus of Nazareth or some other Jesus? After all, that name was common in the first century, as were James and Joseph. Lemaire pins his circumstantial case on the unusual naming of both the father and brother on a burial box, known as an ossuary. There's only one other known example with three names, so he figures something about the brother must have stood out. Jesus would certainly qualify. However, archaeologist Kyle McCarter of Johns Hopkins University noted at a news conference Monday that the brother might have been named because he conducted the burial or owned the tomb. Under Christian teaching that would rule out Jesus of Nazareth, who rose from the grave and ascended into heaven decades before James was stoned to death as a Jewish heretic in A.D. 62. Two poles of reaction quickly emerged Monday. Rev. Ben Witherington III of Asbury Theological Seminary in Kentucky, another news conference speaker, sided fully with Lemaire's
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