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To: cinives

"We have just received the results of carbon dating: the text is older than we thought and dates back to a period between the beginning of the third and fourth centuries," foundation director Mario Jean Roberty said."


300-400 AD

"No one can clearly state that Judas wrote it himself,"

Unless the dude did not kill himself AND lived to be 300-400 years old, I can bet that he did not write it.


77 posted on 04/04/2005 11:49:14 AM PDT by KansasConservative1
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To: KansasConservative1

LOL good point !


80 posted on 04/04/2005 11:53:23 AM PDT by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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To: KansasConservative1

You probably already knew this, but prior to the invention of the printing press, all texts were hand written. Texts which were important were copied. I seriously doubt the authenticity of the original text, but no one is claiming that it is the first copy of the document ever written.


183 posted on 04/06/2005 10:27:28 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (It was a joke. You know, humor. Like the funny kind. Only different.)
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