Dealer Charged With Jesus Forgeries (Ossuary of James "Discoverer")

JERUSALEM -- An Israeli antiquities dealer has been arrested on suspicion of forging artifacts linked to Jesus and the biblical Jewish Temple, police said Tuesday.

Dealer Oded Golan was arrested Monday at his home in Tel Aviv, police said, on suspicion of forging and dealing in fake antiquities.

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Golan was involved in the discovery of two items that shook the religious and archaeological world -- an ossuary, or burial box, with the inscription, "James, the brother of Jesus," leading to speculation that it referred to the brother of Jesus of Nazareth.

Also, a shoebox-sized tablet was found, inscribed with instructions for caring for the Jewish Temple, in wording similar to that of the Bible. Called the "Joash inscription," it purported to be rare physical evidence backing up the biblical narrative.

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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-israel-antiquities,0,1686101.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

I'll even send Jesus' tooth brush back to him. ;-)

it's the way they're presented in the press, even in special interest publications.

The ossuary was supposed to have a chemical patina that takes centuries to develop. So if it were a forgery, it would have to be an ancient forgery. So this guy makes it in the back of his antiques store and they couldn't tell the difference?

The Shroud of Turin was the same way. For example, as presented in the press, the image was supposed to have been formed by some unknown form of energy which whitened the cloth. Turns out it could have been produced by any of a number of bleaching agents including the base of certain kinds of paint.

Months back, the History Channel or Discovery or whatever did a thing about it. When they got to the part that it was BROKEN in transit to Canada, and they showed the pieces-------I just about had a cardiac event.