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Is this the first ever portrait of Jesus?
Daily Mail ^
| 3 Apr 2011
| Nick Pryer
Posted on 04/03/2011 10:23:10 AM PDT by mandaladon
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Fascinating story !!!
To: mandaladon
To: mandaladon
The image is eerily familiar: a bearded young man with flowing curly hair...Yes, I suppose one could.
I just as easily see an unkempt hippie from the Haight-Ashbury after a bad night.
I just hope this statement doesn't trigger mass killings worldwide...
< /sarc >
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posted on
04/03/2011 10:32:39 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(There has Never been a "Tax On The Rich" that has not reached the middle class)
To: mandaladon
Here's a link to the "fake" conclusion...
LINK.
To: mandaladon
You sure that ain’t Ronald McDonald?
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posted on
04/03/2011 10:34:27 AM PDT
by
bigheadfred
(Beat me, Bite me...Make Me Write Bad Checks)
To: SonOfDarkSkies
Its been proven a fake.Actually, it's been proven as debris from a flying saucer crash from around April 1, 134 A.D.
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posted on
04/03/2011 10:35:16 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(There has Never been a "Tax On The Rich" that has not reached the middle class)
To: mandaladon
“extremist Zealot sect”
Man. The zealots were proved 100% correct, the Romans killed millions in Jerusalem, and 2000 years later the Daily Mail is calling them “extreme”.
It was the Romans who killed the millions Daily Mail.
But the people who opposed them were “extreme”.
Just goes to show, YOU *****MUST***** WIN.
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posted on
04/03/2011 10:35:43 AM PDT
by
Christian Engineer Mass
(25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many younger conservative Christians out there? __ Click my name)
To: Publius6961
To: SonOfDarkSkies
Its been proven a fake.
This ‘proof’?
“It appears the IAA believed the booklets were forgeries on the basis that nothing like them had been discovered before. “
or this ‘proof’?
“The samples were then sent to the Swiss National Materials Laboratory at Dubendorf, Switzerland. The results show they were consistent with ancient (Roman) period lead production and that the metal was smelted from ore that originated in the Mediterranean. Dr Northover also said that corrosion on the books was unlikely to be modern. “
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posted on
04/03/2011 10:39:05 AM PDT
by
chaosagent
(Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
To: SonOfDarkSkies
"Its been proven a fake."Where is a link to your source that it is a fake?
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posted on
04/03/2011 10:39:36 AM PDT
by
Spunky
(Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.)
To: Spunky
To: SonOfDarkSkies
"Here's a link to the "fake" conclusion"I hadn't read far enough before I asked for a link. Sorry!
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posted on
04/03/2011 10:41:23 AM PDT
by
Spunky
(Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.)
To: SonOfDarkSkies
"Here's a link to the "fake" conclusion"I hadn't read far enough before I asked for a link. Sorry!
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posted on
04/03/2011 10:41:23 AM PDT
by
Spunky
(Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.)
To: Spunky
No prob. Here's an interesting excerpt from
Christianity Today...
Scholars Doubtful About Metal Plate Documents' Authenticity Other Bible scholars and archaeologists contacted by Christianity Today were equally skeptical. "Don't get too excited until we know what we have," said Darrell Bock, Research Professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary. Archaeologists pointed out that any ancient item discovered out of context faces huge hurdles before it can be authenticated and properly dated.
Then on April 1st, no less, the blog Paleojudaica posted a letter from Oxford University lecturer Peter Thonemann, which identified the text from one page of a codex as a crude reproduction of an inscription from an ancient tombstone that has been on display in an Amman museum for the past half century. "The only possible explanation is that the text on the bronze tablet was copied directly from the inscription in the museum," Thonemann wrote.
To: mandaladon
Well what do you think about that...the cheese pizza was right!
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posted on
04/03/2011 10:48:29 AM PDT
by
240B
(he is doing everything he said he wouldn't and not doing what he said he would)
To: SonOfDarkSkies
Aw, c'mon...
Can you just picture an illiterate denizen of northern Jordan the 1950s or 60s deciding, "I'll just find me some copper and lead sheets and fire off a bunch of meaningless, but detailed laborious embossed plates, bury them somewhere and wait 61 years and see what happens... ?
I suppose that's possible.
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posted on
04/03/2011 10:53:13 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(There has Never been a "Tax On The Rich" that has not reached the middle class)
To: mandaladon
Looks like a lion head to me.
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posted on
04/03/2011 10:53:41 AM PDT
by
FReepaholic
(Pray for Japan.)
To: mandaladon
I think it's a Bert Lahr souvenir coin.
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posted on
04/03/2011 10:56:14 AM PDT
by
wtc911
("How you gonna get down that hill?")
To: Publius6961
You never know...they might turn out to be real after all, but that Thonemann fellow at Oxford is betting his rep as an expert that they are forgeries.
I was disappointed to hear the theories of fakery. But, of course, where there's money to be made, there's always a clever forger around.
To: mandaladon
Hold up a one dollar bill and see the resemblance to Washington.
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posted on
04/03/2011 10:59:46 AM PDT
by
fish hawk
(R. Emmett Tyrrell: Liberalism is dead. What we see now is "soft Nazis-ism".)
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