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Filled to the brim with eager Matmos fans, the small auditorium had been transformed from a dreary review session cave into an impromptu audiovisual showcase, with the room’s projector screen looming above racks of mixers, keyboards and laptops. Stranger sounds probably never emerged from Science Center D. Guest artist Keith Fullerton Whitman, best known as glitchcore renegade Hrvatski, began his half-hour set with lo-fi guitar twangs that quickly dissolved into a hypnotic ocean of swirling sonic detritus, electronic squalls, static bombs, gurgles and crackles...
...assessments are based on two suppositions: that the box is not a forged item and that the James, Joseph and Jesus inscribed on it are the ones in the Bible. Neither is a foregone conclusion. The history of the ossuary is murky. It was probably looted from a burial cave decades ago. The Biblical Archaeology article includes testimony by geologists and experts in ancient writing with sufficient credibility to convince scholars that the box is not a fake and probably does date to within four decades of A.D. 62, the accepted year for James' martyrdom at the temple. Many academics...
...town of Silwan, nestled below the southern wall of the Old City, is a fairly typical Jerusalem-area Arab village--densely settled, tense and poor. But it does possess one distinction: numerous 1st century subterranean Jewish burial caves, some of which now double as basements for Silwan's rough cinder-block houses. Unofficial excavations by residents and by professional looters, although illegal, have long supplied the antiquities market with pots, lamps and other artifacts. According to the ossuary's owner, the dealer who sold it to him told him it was found in the Silwan area. The owner says...
...years the ossuary sat in obscurity. Jews in Jerusalem in the hundred years before and after Jesus' birth practiced secondary burial--the transfer of bones of the deceased from a first grave into a container that was then deposited in the family burial cave. Archaeologists have unearthed thousands of such boxes, ranging from ornately carved and painted chests to utilitarian containers devoid of any inscription. The James ossuary fell somewhere in the middle. Its owner says he was familiar with its inscription but, as a Jew, was unaware that the names were special. One day last spring he invited Lemaire...
...haven't cared to print what I write. They think that I've lost a few miles-per-hour off my similes, that I'm a little slow in picking up inferences, that I don't turn the double entendre the way I used to. Yet, each week, they cave in and publish another one of my stories. They have to, you see. Because I've been around a long time. And I've got ... The Streak...