Judge skeptical after witnesses seemingly contradict own testimony
(NEWSER) - The public is already frowning on a Tel Aviv man accused of forging the burial box of Jesus' brother James, but the judge in the case has hinted that the case is weak, Matthew Kalman writes in Time. Two scientists, witnesses for the prosecution, have testified that geological conditions could not have produced a thin crust, or patina, on the box—making it a fake. But their testimony is apparently contradicted by their own later research. More»