Given his importance to the early Christian Church, why wouldn't he be connected to his brother, or even stepbrother, on the burial box containing his bones?
(CNN)In November 2002, the world was captivated by the biggest archaeological discovery ever made relating to Jesus: a 2,000 year-old ossuary -- or bone box -- bearing the tantalizing inscription in Aramaic: "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus."
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Michael McKinley is co-author, with David Gibson, of "Finding Jesus: Faith. Fact. Forgery.: Six Holy Objects That Tell the Remarkable Story of the Gospels."
Ben Witherington III, professor of New Testament Interpretation at Asbury Theological Seminary, offers the Protestant view that Jesus and James were full brothers, with Jesus being the elder.
So who are these "brothers" that the Gospel of Mark mentions?
James and Peter and Paul were the prime movers of this new faith, with James the leader of the Jesus followers in Jerusalem until he was martyred in 64 CE, forgiving his killers with his last breath, just as his brother Jesus had done.
Underlying the question of the authenticity of the ossuary is an even bigger theological problem: whether or not Jesus actually had any brothers. Though the debate's origins are ancient, the answer still divides Catholics and Protestants.
That left James to fill the void. Whatever he was -- brother, step-brother or cousin -- we know that James became important in the early Christian church because of his relation to Jesus. Paul, the apostle who transformed the new religion from a local phenomenon into a movement throughout the Roman Empire, says as much in his letter to the Galatians:
中新網(wǎng)3月12日電中國消費者協(xié)會副秘書長、新聞發(fā)言人劉敏日前做客中新網(wǎng)視頻訪談間時表示，從全國消費者組織受理投訴情況來看，電信業(yè)投訴大概占了整個投訴量中的第四位，主要是綜合服務(wù)質(zhì)量有待提高，資費標準不透明以及不公平格式條款等。
"He's called clearly the brother of the Lord, and the Greek uses the common word for brother," Martin says.
他表示，在不公平格式條款方面，也希望電信業(yè)從維護消費者權(quán)益的角度更多推出一些便于消費者消費的產(chǎn)品，更好地提高自己的服務(wù)質(zhì)量，同時對一些消費者典型當(dāng)中提出來的霸王條款要及時加以糾正和改正。
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If it was true, this was the first physical evidence ever found of Jesus' existence. And yet, if this amazing ossuary was false, then it was one of the greatest forgeries in history.
第三，不公平格式條款。劉敏表示，這方面消費者反映比較突出的是2G、3G甚至4G的問題，“如在2G、3G網(wǎng)絡(luò)升級到4G時，電信的營業(yè)場所會給你提供很便利的條件，卡很快就給你辦好，你說我不想用4G，流量太快，我沒有那么多流量，不需要這么大的流量，我也不想要這樣的消費，我想換回2G、3G的時候，不行了，不允許，這種情況下這是典型的不公平的條款。”
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第二，資費標準。他表示，往往有的消費者認為，資費標準透明度低，沒有履行對消費者的承諾，“這個也跟電信的廣告有關(guān)系，它的廣告有的時候會造成消費者的錯覺，導(dǎo)致消費者在資費標準選擇上，選擇了一些不一定適合自己消費的產(chǎn)品，給消費者造成一些消費問題。”
Jesus is presented as the older brother who leaves the family and walks about in Galilee and Judea, has a ministry and leaves James and the other brothers and sisters in charge of the family, according to the scholar.
"The New Testament says nothing about Mary being a perpetual virgin, it says she virginally conceived Jesus, and it certainly implies that she went on to have more children after that, and his brothers and sisters are in fact his brothers and sisters," Witherington says.
But Catholics also believe in Mary's perpetual virginity, so Martin surmises that James and the other brothers were Joseph's children from a prior marriage."It makes sense that Joseph would have been older and Mary was younger, so I see them in a sense as stepbrothers."
