An Ancient Hebrew Inscription in New Mexico - Fact or Fraud?

www.unitedisrael.org ^ | James D. Tabor

[pistola]

Interesante

[freebilly]

Everyone knows the Mayans are the famous lost Jewish tribe. Just look at the pyramids they built!< /tinfoil >

[patriciaruth]

Farfetched but intriguing.

However, this reminds one of the Piltdown Man hoax, the fake Howard Hughes will, fake French cave hand prints and cave paintings (by some trying to cash in on the tourist business generated by Lescaux), and alterations in the Great Pyramid at Giza by scientist trying to prove a religious theory.

Any update on the ancient remains of a Caucasoid male that the Indians wanted to bury, claiming it was an ancestor, and that the scientists filed in court for right to examine?

[Mo1]

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[Judith Anne]

Fascinating! Thanks for the interesting post. ;-D

[Sacajaweau]

These always amuse me as I recall carving a rock (with the proper tools) and leaving the dated 1789...Sac

[woofie]

I'll have to run down to Los Lunas and check this out

[Judith Anne]

Funny girl! ;-D

But seriously, if excavations are done, not just surface findings, and if something's there....could be interesting.

[Liberty Belle]

Ping

[Sacajaweau]

Judy, Judy, Judy... One of my friends also has a sense of humor. He remodeled his 150 year old farmhouse. Before he put up the drywall, he took some bottles, put some current artifacts in them and...marked them 1 of 4, 2 of 4..etc..

Except he only put "3" bottles in the walls...

Someday, the newspaper will read "Only three of the 4 bottles were found" during the demolition of the 1850's house...It's a small town...it'll be exciting!!

Sac

[Judith Anne]

THAT is hilarious! ;-D

Don't be giving me ideas--I'm bad enough as it is! ;-D

[PatrickHenry]

It's times like this that we need medved's guidance.

[matrix]

Perhaps Jehovah told them to.

[Alouette]

What would move ancient religious Jews (who cared about the Ten Commandments) to hop in a boat and sail for months over uncharted oceans

Good question. However if the inscriptions are not the work of a modern prankster, they could have been made by "crypto-Jews" Spanish Jews who converted to Christianity at the time of the Inquisition, then came to the New World with the Spanish conquistadores in the early 16th century. They might have set up an encampment and left code in paleo-Hebrew since the Inquisition priests would have recognized modern Hebrew.

[Sacajaweau]

Wonder how much funding they will get??

Sac

[MadIvan]

Perhaps it's like this fellow:

Cop a walk it's all right. …. Hus du gezen in deine leiben, they darker than us. Woof!

Regards, Ivan

[patriciaruth]

The simplest answer may be that Sacajaweau has an evil twin who set this us to blow your mind away.

Still it's fun sometimes to think about Kazanzakis' seven levels of truth.

[Alouette]

Lozem geyn!

[MadIvan]

Lozem geyn!

That's the spirit. ;)

That's Hedley Lamarr! :)

Regards, Ivan