TY - BOOK ID - 143793659 TI - Jesus and the Ossuaries : What Jewish Burial Practices Reveal About the Beginning of Christianity PY - 2003 SN - 1280500778 9786610500772 1423790383 1602580502 PB - Waco : Baylor University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Funeral rites and ceremonies, Jewish. KW - Ossuaries - Palestine. KW - Ossuaries KW - Jewish funeral rites and ceremonies KW - Excavations (Archaeology) KW - Inscriptions KW - Jews KW - History KW - Bible. KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - Palestine KW - Antiquities. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:143793659 AB - In Jesus and the Ossuaries, Craig A. Evans helps all readers, expert and layperson alike, understand the importance this recent find might have for the quest for the historical Jesus and any historical reconstruction of early Christianity. Evans does this by providing an overview of the most important archaeological discoveries, before examining nine other inscriptions (six on ossuaries, three on stone slabs) that pertain in one way or another to the historical Jesus. He then surveys the arguments for and against the authenticity and identification of the recently discovered James Ossuary. Eva ER -