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Could this be the biggest find since the Dead Sea Scrolls? Seventy metal books found..
Daily Mail ^ | 03/30/11 | Fiona Macrae

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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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

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I got a girl named Boney Moronie.
She’s as skinny as a stick of macaroni.
Ought to see her rock and roll with her blue jeans on.
She’s not very fat, just skin and bone.
But I love her and she loves me.
We’re all happy now as we can be.
Making love underneath the apple tree.


141 posted on 03/30/2011 4:19:41 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Going 'EGYPT' - 2012!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster; All
Fascinating stuff! Thanks for the post. I hope someone eventually decides to crack open the sealed ones and read what is written.

I am also of the belief that the following reference from John has some truth to it.

John 21:25
And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.

142 posted on 03/30/2011 4:26:22 PM PDT by Ripliancum (Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you. -Eph. 4:31)
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To: UCANSEE2

The page pictured on the left appears to have a Menorah at the top of the page.


143 posted on 03/30/2011 4:29:43 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Going 'EGYPT' - 2012!)
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To: editor-surveyor

I’d say one could ‘imagine’ it to be just about anything.

That is, however, a good suggestion.


144 posted on 03/30/2011 4:38:33 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post.)
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To: editor-surveyor

Oh man! I’d finally got it out of my brain by listening to Ry Cooder, and you’ve brought it back! It was about the third record I’d bought as a kid! The guitar riff,,,,,,


145 posted on 03/30/2011 4:39:20 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Elsie

A little too ABSOLUTE?


146 posted on 03/30/2011 4:41:10 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post.)
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To: Ripliancum
I hope someone eventually decides to crack open the sealed ones and read what is written.

Maybe they already did. Have you looked around lately ?

147 posted on 03/30/2011 4:45:16 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post.)
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To: D-fendr
You in your case, the Apostles, Church Fathers, Bishops and Councils in the case of the Church.

You left the Holy Spirit out of the group for the Church!

148 posted on 03/30/2011 5:00:02 PM PDT by Patriotic1 (Dic mihi solum facta, domina - Just the facts, ma'am)
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To: Patriotic1

Didn’t leave it out. The Church is guided by the Holy Spirit.


149 posted on 03/30/2011 5:32:02 PM PDT by D-fendr
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To: Elsie
Come on now, you know Kinderhook is the Winner
150 posted on 03/30/2011 5:55:04 PM PDT by Utah Binger (Southern Utah where the Inman FReepers Meet July 23 Pray Jim Rob Can Make It)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

April Fool’s day two days early this year?


151 posted on 03/30/2011 6:05:26 PM PDT by delacoert
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Thanks TigerLikesRooster for this topic and ping.

Thanks BenLurkin, Pollster1, and Red Badger for the additional pings.

Thanks 1010RD for the link to the Daily Mail article.

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152 posted on 03/30/2011 7:14:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

ping for later - I saw a blurb on this earlier, fascinating. Thnks for the bump. :-) Be safe.


153 posted on 03/30/2011 7:19:55 PM PDT by SueRae (I can see November 2012 from my HOUSE!!!!!!!!)
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To: DonaldC

You can hope for that, but I doubt you or I will ever live to see them published.

As much as academics like to talk about openness and transparency, they are a cloistered, envious, suspicious group as a whole.

None of them want to publish/reveal anything that might contradict their own personal beliefs/theories/agendas.


154 posted on 03/30/2011 7:28:02 PM PDT by djf (Dems and liberals: Let's redefine "marriage". We already redefined "natural born citizen".)
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To: Hodar; SunkenCiv
Scriptures written on metal plates? Wow ... that sounds vaguely familiar doesn’t it?

These, you mean?

7th century BCE silver scroll found in Jerusalem, containing the priestly benediction (Israel Antiquities Authority)

"The Lord bless thee and keep thee;
the Lord make his face to shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee;
the Lord lift up his countenance upon thee and give thee peace."
(Numbers 6:24-26)

HISTORY: Biblical Times (© 2008 Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Or was that just a cheap shot at Joseph Smith, et al?

155 posted on 03/30/2011 7:37:12 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Made in America, by proud American citizens, in 1946.)
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To: nerdwithagun

I was watching it today: couldn’t look away as the ALIENS get trotted out as the ONLY way some of these big things could POSSIBLY have been built...


156 posted on 03/30/2011 7:56:54 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: svcw
Thin sheets of metal... ...found in an old building at Lee's Ferry.


http://www.utlm.org/newsletters/no98.htm

157 posted on 03/30/2011 8:00:18 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Hodar

Like the Copper Scroll?

Saw photos of it at the “Dead Sea Scrolls” exhibit this past summer. It was fascinating—especially since I had recently read “The Copper Scroll” by Joel Rosenberg.


158 posted on 03/30/2011 8:00:23 PM PDT by Shelayne (He who testifies to these things says, "Yes, I am coming quickly" Amen. Come, Lord Jesus! *Rev 22:20)
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To: UCANSEE2

ABSOLUTELY!


159 posted on 03/30/2011 8:01:26 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: delacoert
April Fool’s day two days early this year?

Possibly: Friday the 13th falls on Wednesday in April.

160 posted on 03/30/2011 8:03:44 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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