If the James mentioned in the inscription was the half brother of Jesus Christ, then it would be “the oldest extrabiblical archaeological evidence of Jesus, ” asserts André Lemaire, an authority on ancient inscriptions and the writer of the aforementioned article in Biblical Archaeology Review.
وإذا كان يعقوب الذي يذكره النقش اخا يسوع المسيح من امه ،‏ فعندئذ يكون هذا النقش « اقدم دليل اثري خارج الكتاب المقدس على وجود يسوع » .‏