{"id":872,"date":"2002-10-21T17:35:43","date_gmt":"2002-10-22T01:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/10\/21\/cool-archaelogical-discovery-corroborates-the-new-testament\/"},"modified":"2002-10-21T17:35:43","modified_gmt":"2002-10-22T01:35:43","slug":"cool-archaelogical-discovery-corroborates-the-new-testament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/10\/21\/cool-archaelogical-discovery-corroborates-the-new-testament","title":{"rendered":"Cool Archaelogical Discovery Corroborates the New Testament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In yet anoth\u00ader case of archael\u00ado\u00adgy con\u00adfirm\u00ading the bib\u00adli\u00adcal record, schol\u00adars recent\u00adly announced the dis\u00adcov\u00adery of an ancient <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spizzquiz.net\/ossuary.htm\">ossuary<\/a> bear\u00ading the inscrip\u00adtion <i>James, son of Joseph, broth\u00ader of Jesus<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The rel\u00adic has been dat\u00aded to just before 70 A.D., which jives with the bib\u00adli\u00adcal dat\u00ading of the death of James.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the details at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2002\/141\/11.0.html\">Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today<\/a> (very pro), <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2002\/10\/1021_021021_christianrelicbox.html\">Nation\u00adal Geo\u00adgraph\u00adic<\/a> (pret\u00adty neu\u00adtral), and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/10\/21\/science\/21CND-JESU.html\">New York Times<\/a> (slight\u00adly skep\u00adti\u00adcal).<\/p>\n<p>Inci\u00adden\u00adtal\u00adly, you might be intrigued to note that the inscrip\u00adtion pro\u00adnounced pho\u00adnet\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly sounds like \u201cYacob son of Yussef broth\u00ader of Yeshua.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yacob? Who\u2019s Yacob?<\/p>\n<p>James and Jacob are both legit\u00adi\u00admate Eng\u00adlish equiv\u00ada\u00adlents of the Hebrew Yacob.<br>\nBetcha did\u00adn\u2019t learn <i>that<\/i> in Sun\u00adday School\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve heard that this dates back to trans\u00adla\u00adtion of the King James Bible. As you prob\u00ada\u00adbly know, names are often rad\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly changed when Angli\u00adcized, and often for non\u00adpho\u00adnet\u00adic rea\u00adsons. The sto\u00adry I heard claimed that the trans\u00adla\u00adtors of the King James Bible decid\u00aded to dub the broth\u00ader of Jesus James as a thank-you to their spon\u00adsor.  It sounds like an urban leg\u00adend to me, but stranger things have hap\u00adpened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In yet anoth\u00ader case of archael\u00ado\u00adgy con\u00adfirm\u00ading the bib\u00adli\u00adcal record, schol\u00adars recent\u00adly announced the dis\u00adcov\u00adery of an ancient ossuary bear\u00ading the inscrip\u00adtion James, son of Joseph, broth\u00ader of Jesus. The rel\u00adic has been dat\u00aded to just before 70 A.D., which jives with the bib\u00adli\u00adcal dat\u00ading of the death of James. You can read the details \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/10\/21\/cool-archaelogical-discovery-corroborates-the-new-testament\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cCool Archae\u00adl\u00adog\u00adi\u00adcal Dis\u00adcov\u00adery Cor\u00adrob\u00ado\u00adrates the New Tes\u00adta\u00adment\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-answers-to-honest-questions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-e4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}