Evidence for Jesus Christ?

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It's not. The jury isn't still out on this issue. In fact, the verdict came down some time ago. The inscription was a fake and the perp is now in jail.

This is news to me! Where did you read about it? I've just done a Google search but nothing is coming up.

Whether or not Oded Golan can be convicted legally is still up in the air because he may not have actually done the forgery himself. The hand holding the chisel seems to have been an Egyptian who is beyond the reach of Israeli courts and who wisely declined to go to Israel to testify.

But the inscription is a forgery.

http://www.archaeology.org/online/news/patina.html

Avner Ayalon, determined that the patina covering both the letters and surface of the Jehoash Inscription, as well as the inscription on the James Ossuary, "could not have formed under natural climactic conditions...that prevailed in the Judea Mountains during the last 2000 years." Furthermore, the patina contained in the inscription on the James Ossuary is "significantly different from the oxygen isotopic composition in the surface patina of [the ossuary] and of patina of authentic ossuaries stored in [Jerusalem's] Rockefeller Museum." An internal GSI committee reviewed and approved Dr. Ayalon's conclusions.