Burial Box of James the Brother of Jesus

Andre Lemaire is an epigrapher, and this Biblical Archaeology Review article is his own publication announcing the so-called James Ossuary and reading its Aramaic inscription as James son of Joseph brother of Jesus. Its significance is that it is the original publication that brought the object to scholarly and public attention with Lemaire's own epigraphic reading. Its limit is substantial and is the reason for its tier two placement, the ossuary's authenticity was subsequently the subject of an Israeli forgery trial, and while the box itself is now generally accepted as ancient, the inscription's authenticity and its connection to the Jesus of the New Testament remain genuinely disputed among specialists, so a claim treating the identification as settled should be checked against that ongoing controversy.