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Originally Posted by adpayoutbrown
Jesus, Maria and Joseph were the most popular names that time (70-20BC) they made statistics and there was a few hundred jesus with a dad called Joseph......
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Indeed and one of the tombs they associate with the name Mary Magdalene had only a nickname on it that people called her hundreds of years after her death. I suspect this is an ancient hoax. Antiquities were popular items in the years following Christianities rise, seems like it may have come from someone trying to cash in on Jesus fame at the time.