“James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus.” As translated by Andre Lemaire. A quick Google search on this guy shows he does a lot of Biblical archeology which, of course, leads to doubts.
James, Joseph and Jesus were common names in ancient Jerusalem, a city of about 40,000 residents. And Lemaire estimates that there could have been as many as 20 Jameses in that city with brothers named Jesus and fathers named Joseph. But it is unlikely there would have been more than one James who had a brother of such importance that it merited having him mentioned on his ossuary, Lemaire said.
Or maybe more than 20.
Also stated in the article:
The collector, who is Jewish, was not aware that Jesus had a brother. And he only discovered the interest in the object when he met Lemaire at a dinner party last spring and asked him to decipher some Aramaic written on a number of collectibles, Shanks said.
Jesus having any siblings is actually a debate that rages to this day. Some faiths believe he did, others believe he did not. I think the basis for saying he did was he refered to James as his brother in the Bible, but was it brother in the sense that ALL people are Jesus’s brothers and sisters or that it’s a translation of “friend” or was he really saying blood brother?
Still, very interesting.