STRIKE 2000!

Remember this?



Yeah, the box that was discovered last fall, which was thought to once contain the remains of James, the brother of Jesus, the reason being that an inscription in Aramaic said as much?

Well, file it next to the Shroud of Turin. Oh how Brendan loves using the H-word when referring to the gospels:

HOAX.

Israeli archaeological experts said Wednesday an inscription on an ancient stone box suggesting it once contained the bones of Jesus' brother, James, was a forgery.

The burial box and its Aramaic inscription "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus" had excited speculation it could be the earliest physical reference to the founder of Christianity outside the New Testament.

But the director of Israel's Antiquities Authority, Shuka Dorfman, called it a hoax.

"The ossuary is real. But the inscription is fake. What this means is that somebody took a real box and forged the writing on it, probably to give it a religious significance," Dorfman told Reuters after a news conference on the matter.

"Israeli archaeological experts"? [billy graham]Jews! They killed Jesus! Obviously they have an interest in calling it a forgery![/billy graham] (hehe)