Monday, May 29, 2006

THE BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY SOCIETY reports that Oded Golan has a photo of the James Ossuary from the 1970s. In the context of a report on the trial testimony of epigrapher Ada Yardeni (who still thinks the inscription is genuine) we read:
The questioning by [defense attorney] Mr. Bringer also discloses that defendant Oded Golan, who is the only defendant charged with forgery in connection with the ossuary inscription, has a photograph of the ossuary from the 1970s. If that is so, and if the inscription is already there (and it must surely be there or Mr. Bringer would not refer to it), then for the inscription to be a forgery, it must have been forged more than a quarter century ago.
Let's see the photo please. And why wasn't it produced long before all this went to trial?

(Also via Deinde.)

UPDATE (1 June): Danny Zacharias reminds me that this picture has been mentioned before. I had forgotten. This is interesting, but I'm not going to get excited about the picture until it's been authenticated and I see it.

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