It’s been proven a fake.
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 >
You sure that ain’t Ronald McDonald?
“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.
Well what do you think about that...the cheese pizza was right!
Looks like a lion head to me.
To me it looks like the face of a lion.
First I heard of this so-called find was on Coast-to-Coast last night. For those who don’t know, that’s Art Bell’s old show, hosted by George Noory and assorted fill ins since Bell retired, moved to the Phillipines, and got himself a young wife. Since this is a C-to-C subject, that does not bide well for these metal books to be authentic.
A metallurgist should be able to determine if the metal is consistent with that from the claimed era?
The process seems to be analogous to wood-cuts of more than a milennium later, and used a less-than-likely medium flat metal, that would have required multiple contemporaneous advances: metal imprinting of a "block at a time," lacing codex imprints together well before individual examples, and "negative engraving" of lettering to produce positives and mass-producible metal stamping. If these practices had existed in the first century or thereabouts, it is beyond curious and bizarre that these advances became "lost to the world," not to be used again by others for many hundreds of years.
HF
Regardless of it’s authenticity, is is, much like the “Shroud of Turin” pretty interesting.
It might also be interesting to put a picture of the “Mandilion” or facial portion of the Shroud next to or superimposed over this mysterious (if not somewhat dubious) image for comparison.
Producing such raised / “3-D” images on sheet metal is a very ancient and fairly simple process which can be accomplished with hand tools. IIRC it’s called “Repousse’”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repoussé_and_chasing
I’ve done it; how complicated can it be?
Looks to me like one of those dinner rolls I’m supposed to be able to find Jesus’ face in.....yet I never can. But I hear they go for big bucks on e-bay.
Regardless, whether fakes, frauds and/or original art. I can see only one beneficiary from the sudden discovery of these marvels.
Looks like the face of those lions that you hang on your door with a knocker. At least the lips do. Nobody knows what Yashua looked like. At least He didn’t look like something on a burnt piece of toast or on a cheese pizza.
Wouldn't this be in contradiction to what the apostle Paul say in 1Corinthians 11:14? Wouldn't this be especially poignant when pertaining to the perfect "Son of God"