Why is the James ossuary important?
Luke writes of James as being the brother of Jesus as well as the leader of the early Christians in Acts 12:17, 15:13, and 21:18. The ossuary supports Luke’s credibility since the artifact uses the same words as Luke to describe James. In addition, Luke traveled with the Apostle Paul. Both men met and talked with James based on Acts 21:18. Luke writes that his sources were people who knew Jesus. “Just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word” (Luke 1:2). This challenges the Q-source theory of modern scholars, which claims that Luke learned about Jesus from reading what others wrote of him. Luke talked with people who knew Jesus face-to-face. It is credible to assume that Luke also read sources of people who knew Jesus face-to-face. Finally, Josephus wrote that James was martyred due to political and religious issues (dated to 62 CE). This turns out to be an important “KEY” that isolates when Luke wrote the gospel of Luke & th
