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• Books & Culture's Book of the Week: Oh, Brother | Most everyone agrees that the James ossuary is a significant find. Ask what it means, however … (Mar. 17, 2003)
  
  
• Weblog: Israel Inspects James Ossuary, But Joash Tablet Has Disappeared (Mar. 6, 2003)
  
  
• Christian History Corner: Finding God in a Box | Have archaeological discoveries like the James ossuary served or obscured the quest to verify the Bible? (Jan. 31, 2003)
  
  
• Weblog: Experts Get a Closer Look at the James Ossuary (Nov. 26, 2002)
  
  
• Weblog: James Ossuary Goes on Display as New Findings Emerge (Nov. 18, 2002)
  
  
• Weblog: Ossuary Owner Will Go to Toronto After All (Nov. 11, 2002)
  
  
• Weblog: Ossuary Owner Oded Golan Emerges to Defend Himself (Nov. 7, 2002)
  
  
• Weblog: James Ossuary Display Might Be Delayed (Nov. 6, 2002)
  
  
• Weblog: James Ossuary Owner Revealed, Under Fire from Israeli Government (Nov. 5, 2002)
  
  
• Weblog: James Ossuary 'Badly Damaged' en Route to Toronto (Nov. 4, 2002)
  
  
• Weblog: James Ossuary Contains Bone Fragments (Oct. 29, 2002)
  
  
• Weblog: What Does James Ossuary Say About Mary? (Oct. 23, 2002)
  
  
• Weblog: More Details Emerge on History of James's Bone Box (Oct. 22, 2002)
  
  
• Stunning New Evidence that Jesus Lived | Scholars link first-century bone box to James, brother of Jesus (Oct. 21, 2002)
  
  

Earlier articles on the artifacts include:

• Of biblical dimensions | It's a black stone tablet about the size of a textbook - a small object. But it is making big waves not only in Israel, where it was purportedly found, but throughout the world (Jerusalem Post, Jan. 23, 2003)
  
  
• Does the 'James Ossuary' bring us closer to Jesus? | One can hardly avoid the impression that the excitement is due to a kind of modern semi-popular/semi-scholarly relic cult—that we can actually touch an artifact "so close to Jesus." (Margaret M. Mitchell, Sightings, Jan. 23, 2003)
  
  
• Expert says 'First Temple' find a fake | A stone tablet inscribed with biblical passages in ancient Phoenician script that sparked an archeological controversy last week is a forgery, an internationally renowned expert said Sunday (The Jerusalem Post,January 18, 2003)
  
  
• Tablet could prove temple of Solomon really existed (The Daily Telegraph, London, January 18, 2003)
  
  
• Jehoash tablet said found near Muslim cemetery | Reportedly found outside the eastern wall of the Temple Mount, not far from Golden Gate (Ha'aretz, Jan. 17, 2003)
  
  
• There is nothing else like it | The discovery of the Jehoash tablet has aroused a storm, and some scholars believe that it is a forgery (Ha'aretz, Jan. 17, 2003)
  
  
• Romancing the stone | It would be in the public's interest for the museum to reach an agreement with the collector for the conditional acquisition of the tablet and to then present it to the public and to the scientific community here and abroad (Doron Lancet, Ha'aretz, Jan. 17, 2003)
  
  
• Sensation or forgery? | Researchers hail dramatic First Temple period finding (Ha'aretz, Jan. 13, 2003)
  
  
• Controversial 'First Temple tablet' reputedly dates to King Joash (Jerusalem Post, Jan. 16, 2003)
  
  
• Ossuary hot topic at AAR/SBL meeting | Making the rounds of the various panels were biblical scholars Hershel Shanks and Ben Witherington III, who were scurrying to finish their book on the subject to meet a late December deadline (Publishers Weekly, Jan. 6, 2003)
  
  

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