I’m sure this is all part of some clever Church conspiracy to write something down about Jesus around 70 AD and then hide it away making it very difficult to find for about oh 2000 years.
I’m not smart enough to know what this means or even if it’s real but it seems pretty interesting.Yahoo News reports:
British archaeologists are seeking to authenticate what could be a landmark discovery in the documentation of early Christianity: a trove of 70 lead codices that appear to date from the 1st century CE, which may include key clues to the last days of Jesus’ life. As UK Daily Mail reporter Fiona Macrae writes, some researchers are suggesting this could be the most significant find in Christian archeology since the Dead Sea scrolls in 1947.
The codices turned up five years ago in a remote cave in eastern Jordan—a region where early Christian believers may have fled after the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE. The codices are made up of wirebound individual pages, each roughly the size of a credit card. They contain a number of images and textual allusions to the Messiah, as well as some possible references to the crucifixion and resurrection. Some of the codices were sealed, prompting yet more breathless speculation that they could include the sealed book, shown only to the Messiah, mentioned in the Book of Revelation. One of the few sentences translated thus far from the texts, according to the BBC, reads, “I shall walk uprightly”–a phrase that also appears in Revelation. “While it could be simply a sentiment common in Judaism,” BBC writer Robert Pigott notes, “it could here be designed to refer to the resurrection.”
April 1, 2011 at 6:06 am
Very interesting indeed, but be cautious. There are some indications (not conclusive) that this might a hoax….
April 1, 2011 at 1:14 pm
Dr. Larry Hurtado has some interesting things to say about this. http://larryhurtado.wordpress.com/
April 1, 2011 at 5:42 pm
No reason why it could not be a 2000 year old hoax. Will just have to wait and see what the Church says. Could be interesting though.
April 1, 2011 at 6:55 pm
I'm afraid they are a hoax:
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2011_03_27_archive.html#7454369078247746754
April 3, 2011 at 3:41 am
I'm afraid it is a hoax. So many people at there today want evidence. There is no evidence. They just need to believe, period. It's the people questioning, innovating and developing technology that's ruining the world today. If we all when back in time to just believing in what the Church teaches and not question, it would be a better world today.