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Could this be the biggest find since the Dead Sea Scrolls? Seventy metal books found..
Daily Mail ^ | 03/30/11 | Fiona Macrae

Posted on 03/30/2011 9:07:25 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Could this be the biggest find since the Dead Sea Scrolls? Seventy metal books found in cave in Jordan could change our view of Biblical history

By Fiona Macrae

Last updated at 11:35 AM on 30th March 2011

For scholars of faith and history, it is a treasure trove too precious for price. This ancient collection of 70 tiny books, their lead pages bound with wire, could unlock some of the secrets of the earliest days of Christianity. Academics are divided as to their authenticity but say that if verified, they could prove as pivotal as the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947.


Lines of inquiry: The metal tablets could change our understanding of the Bible

On pages not much bigger than a credit card, are images, symbols and words that appear to refer to the Messiah and, possibly even, to the Crucifixion and Resurrection. Adding to the intrigue, many of the books are sealed, prompting academics to speculate they are actually the lost collection of codices mentioned in the Bible’s Book Of Revelation.

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To: ModelBreaker
I think what they mean is they would be our earliest copies. Paul died about 65 A.D.

While I would like to believe that they meant the earliest copies, I think the wording is more insidious, to deliberately mislead the uninformed that there was something before Paul's writings that render his false.

61 posted on 03/30/2011 9:51:58 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: Logic n' Reason
hermetically sealed.
62 posted on 03/30/2011 9:52:52 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
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To: MHGinTN
but were these written in Hebrew or Greek or Latin, or Aramaic?

No.

63 posted on 03/30/2011 9:54:11 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
If it comes from the days of early Christianity, hopefully it will disprove the nonsense some people believe in Orthodox Christianity was invented by Constantine and that “true Christianity” was the Gnostic kind out of the Devince code. That Jesus being only a prophet. There are relatively few people that truly believe in Gnostic Christianity, but part of their belief is that Jesus=God was created in the early 4th century and maybe some will see Jesus for who He really is
64 posted on 03/30/2011 9:55:30 AM PDT by nerdwithagun (I'd rather go gun to gun then knife to knife.)
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To: pabianice

Lead has been around for....ever.


65 posted on 03/30/2011 9:56:23 AM PDT by Safetgiver (I'd rather die under a free American sky than live under a Socialist regime.)
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To: UCANSEE2
Like why we are giving weapons to Muslims so they can kill Christians.

And allowing the muslim radicals to take over the middle east and circle Israel - with nuclear weapons.

66 posted on 03/30/2011 9:57:02 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: skeeter

Which scripture are you referencing for that? Just want to look it up. You mean the little book that he ate and it turned his stomach sour?


67 posted on 03/30/2011 9:58:07 AM PDT by AmericanMermaid
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To: faq

“Open it up. What could possibly go wrong?”

Remember, before you open it up: “Klaatu Barada Nikto” (just make sure you don’t have Bruce Campbell doing it for you).


68 posted on 03/30/2011 9:58:13 AM PDT by Stosh
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To: pabianice

Could particulate residue on them be dated? It said some were sealed. Sealed in what and can that be dated?

Interesting find.


69 posted on 03/30/2011 9:59:17 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: BenLurkin
hermetically sealed.

Damn! Then these here "metal plates" are obviously forgeries as they were not, in fact, hermetically sealed!!

70 posted on 03/30/2011 9:59:56 AM PDT by Logic n' Reason
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To: AmericanMermaid

John referenced the Seven Seals of the Revelation. Google em.


71 posted on 03/30/2011 10:01:42 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Hodar
some debate whether we have enough - others say we have more than adequate.

It seems to me that the details are not the significant information in the Bible. The WISDOM is in the principles.

My interest lies in first establishing the authencity of this discovery, and then what it says.

Good luck with that part. It appears that NO ONE KNOWS where these plates are, now.

72 posted on 03/30/2011 10:02:00 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post.)
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To: Logic n' Reason
By the way, does it matter if these here "plates" were found in a sealed mayonnaisse jar on Funk and Wagnal's back porch??

Seriously? Uh, yeah ... a mayonnaisse jar didn't exist back then. First we determine the age of this find, to see if it's authentically that old. Then, we read what it says; because the Bible has been edited and re-written over and over for nearly a thousand years. Books have been discarded (17 books are 'lost', if memory serves). The Bible as we know it today, contains about 80% of the books mentioned in the bible. We are missing a lot; what was in these missing books, no one knows.

73 posted on 03/30/2011 10:03:07 AM PDT by Hodar (Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
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To: skeeter

Okay—I actually realized which ones after posting to you! Thank you, Skeeter.


74 posted on 03/30/2011 10:04:36 AM PDT by AmericanMermaid
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To: pabianice
Conveniently, I believe that lead can’t be dated.

Well, Shazam! Lookie here! Jesus had four brothers and a sister. And he officiated at her Lesbian wedding. And he espoused Marxism. And this version of the Sermon on the Mount says "Blessed are the Environmentalists". And....
75 posted on 03/30/2011 10:05:32 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: UCANSEE2

“Good luck with that part. It appears that NO ONE KNOWS where these plates are, now.”


Maybe they were conveniently “returned to their angelic guardian”.


76 posted on 03/30/2011 10:05:38 AM PDT by freedomlover (Make sure you're in love - before you move in the heavy stuff)
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To: SunkenCiv

Ping!...........


77 posted on 03/30/2011 10:07:13 AM PDT by Red Badger (I've posted a total of 1,698 threads and 63,835 replies, as of 03-29-2011......)
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To: bert
Perhaps these documents were saved from the Church in a book burning episode when a few determined who and who would not be deemed heretics and assembled PC writings into the Bible

Maybe they were government leaflets showing Jewish kids what would happen to them if they pissed off the Romans.

78 posted on 03/30/2011 10:07:26 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post.)
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To: BenLurkin

>>> hermetically sealed. <<<

... On Funkenwagnels porch... Since noon today!


79 posted on 03/30/2011 10:07:33 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: pabianice

I dunno. I’ve dated a few...............


80 posted on 03/30/2011 10:07:56 AM PDT by Red Badger (I've posted a total of 1,698 threads and 63,835 replies, as of 03-29-2011......)
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