Biblical Archaeology Review

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Endnote 2 - Biblical Views: Paul, Jesus and the Rolling Stone

Peter Enns, “The ‘Moveable Well’ in 1 Cor 10:4: An Extrabiblical Tradition in an Apostolic Text,” Bulletin for Biblical Research 6 (1996), p. 30.

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Endnote 1 - Biblical Views: Paul, Jesus and the Rolling Stone

In some interpretations, it is known as “Miriam’s Well” because the second instance of Israel needing water takes place right after Miriam dies (Numbers 20:2). Interpreters may have thought that the original rock followed Israel because of Miriam but then ceased working after her death (James L. Kugel, Traditions of the Bible [Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1998], p. 621).

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Endnote 9 - Predilections—Is the “Brother of Jesus” Inscription a Forgery?

If Golan owned the ossuary since the mid-1970s, it would be impossible for it to have come from the Talpiot tomb, as suggested by James Tabor, among others. The tomb was not excavated until 1980.

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Endnote 8 - Predilections—Is the “Brother of Jesus” Inscription a Forgery?

Horace, Ars Poetica 359.

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Endnote 7 - Predilections—Is the “Brother of Jesus” Inscription a Forgery?

Christopher Rollston, “The James Ossuary (Ya‘akov Ossuary): Bullet Point Synopsis About a Probable Modern Forgery,” Rollston Epigraphy (blog), March 22, 2015, www.rollstonepigraphy.com/?p=699.

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Endnote 6 - Predilections—Is the “Brother of Jesus” Inscription a Forgery?

In a Christmas interview in 2013, Rollston offered “to wager that the second half [of the inscription] was added in modern times.” By March 2015, the chances went up to 75–85 percent, but no additional explanation was given.