[TigerLikesRooster]

P!

[Hodar]

Scriptures written on metal plates? Wow ... that sounds vaguely familiar doesn’t it?

[pabianice]

Conveniently, I believe that lead can’t be dated.

[dead]

"Postcards from the Resurrection."

They don't look like they contain a lot of information, even if real.

[AmericaUnite]

How come they look rusty?

[ClearCase_guy]

Chapter 1: Verse 1: “Your time is up.”

[skeeter]

Fascinating.

If its true these are what John referenced in Revelation things do seem to be reaching a climax.

[kosciusko51]

From the article: The books were discovered five years ago in a cave in a remote part of Jordan to which Christian refugees are known to have fled after the fall of Jerusalem in 70AD. Important documents from the same period have previously been found there.

Initial metallurgical tests indicate that some of the books could date from the first century AD. ... If the dating is verified, the books would be among the earliest Christian documents, predating the writings of St Paul.

Obviously, not a Bible scholar. Paul wrote in the period BEFORE 70 AD. He was dead by the end of the first century.

[Sacajaweau]

Sears Catalog??

[Vigilanteman]

Lead would be a fairly logical choice for first century a.d. archives since it is soft enough to carve into and still virtually indestructible.

I'm willing to bet these are going to contain something very important. Maybe even a prophecy to beware of a mad man who will surface five centuries or so later.

[rawhide]

Interesting!

[UCANSEE2]

“The metal tablets could change our understanding of the Bible “

I’d guarantee that they won’t. These plates, (whose existence is questionable) contain pictorial information. That will require translation.

We have ENGLISH translations of the Bible, and we can’t even agree on what THEY say.

[WKUHilltopper]

How do they know these are even Scriptures?? Seems a little premature too me.

They could be coupons for all we know, it could read—buy three goats, get one free with the presentation of this coupon! Offer only good at Habib’s Goat World. Void where prohibited.

[DTogo]

Didn’t this get dropped into the black liquid in The Mummy Returns?

[Cicero]

The usual suspects tried very hard to use the Dead Sea Scrolls to undermine Christianity.

It didn’t work.

I haven’t spent any time on them recently, but I did quite a lot of looking into archaeological research connected with the Bible at one time. In the end, some of it was very interesting, but didn’t really change anything.

If this latest find is real, I presume there will be similar efforts to undermine the Bible, and a similar lack of success. But there could be some interesting stuff, too.

[faq]

Looks like a book with seven seals along the top, right, and bottom. Open it up. What could possibly go wrong?

[Scythian]

I wonder if they’ll keep it secret and twist it to say Christianity was a fraud?

[dragonblustar]

Metal books?

[Pollster1]

FYI - this looks like Gods-Graves-Glyphs ping material.

[UCANSEE2]

Seems the pictures in the photographs of the plates, shown in the article, rather resemble the VOYNICH MANUSCRIPTS.