Lines of inquiry: The metal tablets could change our understanding of the Bible
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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The Angel Moroni gave the Book of Mormon to Joseph Smith, written on plates of gold. So they say.
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.
LOL!, and all of those obscure Greek tenses that the Greeks don’t even know about too.
Lol- that’s right the old hat trick.
Hopefully, scholars don’t keep them secret for 50 years like they did the dead sea scrolls.
Interesting!
So,your objection to these plates is their material, rather than the content? Is there a heirarchy that is preferred? I mean, is papyrus better or worse than leather?
Is having scriptures on my iPad somehow less sacred than having those scriptures on a hardcover bible?
“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.
Do you mean Ahmadinejad or are you refering to Obama?
*snicker*
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.
Didn’t this get dropped into the black liquid in The Mummy Returns?
But, you can look at the corrosion, and the packing materials, as well as the makeup of the wire. And, that is assuming we are talking about pure lead (which we are 99.9999% certain it is NOT). We can get a pretty good idea how old these are.
For example, we can tell where a sample of U238 was mined; by looking at the trace elements.
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.
Thanks for the response. I don't remember saying that I objected to these plates.
Looks like a book with seven seals along the top, right, and bottom. Open it up. What could possibly go wrong?
“predating the writings of St Paul”
“obviously a Christian image. There is a cross in the foreground”
IIRC the cross was not a Chirstian symbol at that time.
I wonder if they’ll keep it secret and twist it to say Christianity was a fraud?
I count 12 seals. It must REALLY be dangerous.
Metal books?
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