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Titolo: Ossario di Giacomo (lungo)

Il punto della situazione nel seguente articolo pubblicato su Ha'aretz
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Ciao
Mimmo
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Antiquities team declares ossuary a forgery
By Nadav Shragai
Both an inscription purporting to link an ancient
ossuary to Jesus' brother, James, and another
purporting to date from the days of the biblical
King Jehoash are forgeries, the Israel Antiquities
Authority announced yesterday.
The conclusion was reached
unanimously by members of two
panels - comprising experts
from several Israeli research
institutions - that have been
studying the inscriptions for
some two-and-a-half months.
Regarding the Jehoash
inscription, the authority
found that "the patina on the
written side of the Jehoash inscription is made
of bits of chalk that contain foraminifers,
clay, coal and bits of gold all mixed together.
In nature, a mixture such as this is virtually
impossible."
In addition, the authority concluded, the text
appears to have been written by a speaker of
modern Hebrew who borrowed phrases from the
Bible in an effort to make it look authentic.
Biblical language professor Avigdor Horowitz,
who served on one of the investigating
committees, told a news conference in Jerusalem
yesterday that not one of the inscribed
passages on the tablet was without a linguistic
mistake. "The person who wrote the inscription
was a person who thinks in modern Hebrew," he
said. "A person thinking in biblical Hebrew
would see it as ridiculous."
The inscription contains 15 lines of supposedly
ancient Hebrew writing describing repairs to
the Temple in Jerusalem that, according to the
biblical account, were carried out by King
Jehoash in about the ninth century B.C.E. The
ossuary, whose inscription reads "James, son of
Joseph, brother of Jesus," also caused a major
stir in the archaeological world when it was
first disclosed.
But the Antiquities Authority found that the
inscription cut through the ancient limestone
box's patina, proving that the writing was not
ancient. In addition, it said, "the inscription
appears new, written in modernity by someone
attempting to reproduce ancient written
characters."
Antiquities Authority head Shuka Dorfman said
that examination of the inscription by
individual experts and the committees on which
they sat came up with a unanimous and
unequivocal conclusion. The ossuary itself was
not examined, he said, because its authenticity
as an ancient burial box was not in question.
"The box is original; we probably have hundreds
of the same or similar ossuaries in our
storeroom. The inscription is false," he said.
The Geological Survey of Israel - one of whose
experts participated in the panel that
unanimously ruled the inscription fake -
originally declared the inscription to be
authentic. Dr. Uzi Deri, who chaired the panel
that investigated the inscription's patina,
said the the carbon-14 dating tests used by the
survey in its original determination proved to
be irrelevant.
Oded Golan, the collector who unveiled both the
inscription and the ossuary, said he was
shocked by the Antiquities Authority's
conclusions. The Jerusalem police launched its
own investigation to determine whether Golan
had acquired them in violation of the
Antiquities Law and that probe continues.

 Mimmo
Grazie Mimmo,
ma credo che la vicenda mai aperta e considerata come questione 'seria'
negli ambienti universitari, adesso si possa ritenere definitivamente
chiusa.
Probabilmente rimarrà viva nei siti come quello di Scala, dei tdg e di altri
che l'hanno trovato un ottimo argomento di propaganda filosofica-religiosa e
quelli deidicati ai misteri, che visto il poco spazio dato dai media alla
smentita ufficiale tra un po' di tempo riprenderanno la propaganda accusando
di faziosità la serissima commissione voluta dal governo israeliano.
Molto bello quel passo che hai riportato che diceva che l'iscrizione è stata
riportata da chi pensava in ebraico moderno, . . . , per quello che mi
riguarda la faccenda è chiusa, spero che il Nicolotti e il Lorenzi mettano
qualche informazione nei loro siti in modo che quando qualcuno riporterà
l'argomento si potrà rimandare al loro sito . . .
Saluti
Claudio Pace.
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