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Ossuary 80/504 Yose� or �Yosa�� a nickname for �Joseph� The fourth inscription, written in Hebrew, reads: �Yose.� Where have we seen this name before? It turns out that Yose is to Yosef as Joey is to Joseph. Yose...

Ossuary 80/502: �Matia� � �Matthew� The third inscription, written in Hebrew, reads: �Matia.� This is the original form of the English �Matthew�, and it leads us to more questions than answers. We know that Jesus was the son of Joseph,...

Oded Golan is a controversial figure, an Israeli engineer, a former army officer in the Israel Defence Force, and a Biblical antiquities dealer. Golan is the collector behind such artifacts as the Jehoash Inscription, a...

Ossuary 80/509 disappeared before it could be checked for inscriptions and decorations. There were ten ossuaries in the tomb discovered in 1980. Ten catalogued. The tenth went missing. It was not photographed like the others. The measurements for it were...

James Ossuary It came to light in 2002. A first-century ossuary or bone box, decorated and inscribed. The ancient writing, once deciphered, was stunning in its simplicity and amazing in its implications: �James, son of Joseph, brother...

Did Jesus and Mary have a son, a child whose identity was kept secret to protect his life? The most explosive ossuary in the Talpiot tomb, incidentally the ossuary of a child, was inscribed �Yehuda bar Yeshua.� Written in...

Many alternative theorists suggest that Jesus lived on after his crucifixion, through the children that he bore with his wife, Mary Magdalene. Although the theories differ, they both conclude that after Jesus' death, Mary...

Ossuary 80/501: �Yehuda bar Yeshua� � �Judah, son of Jesus� �Yehuda bar Yeshua.� Written in Aramaic. Translated, it means �Judah, son of Jesus.� It is the ossuary of a male child, but we have no way of...