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For a summary, see Propp, Exodus, p. 152.

According to both Hebrew and Egyptian tradition, it was often the mother who named the child. See P. Vernus, “Namengabung,” Lexicon der Ägyptologie 4 (1982), pp. 326–327; and William H.C. Propp, Exodus 1–18: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary, Anchor Bible series (New York: Doubleday, 1999), p. 152.

If so, one possibility is that the ossuary of “James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus,” surfaced during Benjamin Mazar’s excavations along the southern Temple Mount wall earlier this century and was removed by looters.

“Excavations in the Kidron Valley,” p. 107 = de Saulcy, Narrative of a Journey Around the Dead Sea, ed. de Warren (1854), vol. 2, p. 241.

Howard E. Stutchbury, “Excavations in the Kidron Valley,” Palestine Exploration Quarterly 93 (1961), pp. 101–113.

Milik, “Le Rouleau de cuivre.”

John Wilkinson, Jerusalem Pilgrims Before the Crusades, 2nd ed. (Warminster, UK: Aris and Phillips, 2002), p. 109.

One would expect Simon to be buried in the “tomb of the priests,” and this is implied for Zechariah in the Lives of the Prophets (Torrey, Lives, p. 47).

This was put forward by Abel as a highly speculative possibility that had nothing to do with history (“Sépulture de saint Jacques,” p. 499).