Re: Scholars Urge More Study of Inscription Purportedly Naming Jesus

Wasn't there a flurry of phony xian artifact manufacturing done in the
period when Constantine made christianity the state religion? His mother
went to the holy land collecting stuff - old bones and wood from "the
cross", right?
    How could anyone hope to determine whether an artifact might be a good
plausible fake or a real item connected to a supernatural event?


"David Christainsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Friends,
>
> By LOUISE CHU
>
http://www.newsday.com/news/science/wire/sns-ap-jesus-inscription,0,3332549.story?coll=sns-ap-science-headlines
>
> "I don't know for sure whether this is a forged inscription, and I'm
> sort of cast as a defender of the inscription. I'm not," said
> moderator Hershel Shanks, editor of the Biblical Archeology Review,
> which published the initial findings. "What I do know is, Israeli
> authorities have badly managed the affair."
>
> Best,
> David Christainsen