[RexBeach]

What? Did Gladys Knight find a fourth Pip?

[TaraP]

Revelation: Experts speculate that the tablets could be the lost collection of codices referred to in the Bible's Book Of Revelation....

[Celtic Cross]

Wow. I hope they’re genuine.

[paladin1_dcs]

Very interesting, I wonder what’s in them.

[colorcountry]

Oh my heck! Proof positive that the golden plates truly exist!

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[Celtic Cross]

Ping. Interesting early Church related find.

[latina4dubya]

ping...

[Gadsden1st]

How difficult would it have been to have taken good photographs of each “page” so everyone could study just what was recorded?

[pyx]

Further to the discovery of the plates, from the article at Temple Study, some additional details about the plates found include:

There are 70 or so “books” or codices in this collection, each between 5-15 leaves made from lead, and bound with lead rings.

The leaves are about the size of a credit card.
Some experts and suggesting the books may have been made by early Christians in the years just following the crucifixion.

There is uncertainty whether they are of Jewish or Christian origin, but several say there is evidence of Christian origin in the signs and symbols used in the books.

Some purported symbols include a cross, a tomb, and the city of Jerusalem. A menorah is also seen as representing the holy of holies of the temple in Jerusalem, and the presence of God.

One of the only lines of texts yet to be translated from the books says “I shall walk uprightly,” a line from the Book of Revelation? (I’m unsure what reference they are referring to).

It’s been shown in the past that such a line is a kind of “worthiness” requirement for those who would ascend to the temple in ancient times (from Psalms 15).

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

More here. Wonder if the EPA will seize and destroy them because they contain (gasp) LEAD?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2697000/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2696354/posts

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

If they are genuine I doubt we will need magic spectacles, or a peepstone in a hat to read them. And I’ll bet they are NOT in “reformed Egyptian”.

[Celtic Cross]

I believe it is a bit silly to try to interpret and speculate so much on this, trying to ‘soothe-say’ out of the bible, if you will. As we see in Revelations, there are some things that God just doesn't want us to know; trying to predict the end of the world, etc, based on the bible as applied to an archaeological find that has yet to be certified as authentic is really going a little far.

Just my take on the matter.

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

Are they gold plated books of Joseph Smith and the Mormons? (kidding)

[commonguymd]

neat

[Lee N. Field]

Just in time for Easter.

prompting academics to speculate they are actually the lost collection of codices mentioned in the Bible’s Book Of Revelation

What "lost collection of codices"?

[Siena Dreaming]

I looked up the 3 "experts" quoted in the story and they all seem a little flaky to me so I'm skeptical about how meaningful these scrolls will be.

Interesting archeological find, but it probably will not add much to our understanding of the Bible.

[sasportas]

If this is supposed to be from the 1st century or thereabouts, then something is fishy here. It is my understanding that the “books” were papyrus scrolls of that time, not the sort of leaved lead pages we see here. I think codices came later.