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Luigi_Daniele
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Kinda cool.
Wish someone could “computer enhance” the image, though.
Wish someone could “computer enhance” the image, though.
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Ancient Books Uncovered in Jordan May Date to Start of Christianity
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Big_Ro
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They could just put a piece of paper over it and rub it with a pencil like we did in elementary school.
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roveau
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There are too many doubts about the lead booklets, for one, where they originally came from… despite what the owner says.
The text relating to the photographs in the article is telling us what we should be seeing and I always worry about that, like the face is said to be that of a ‘young man’ - I don’t see that. The portrait could be of anybody but as it is said to have curley hair, that would make it unlikely to have been a Jew or anyone then in the Palestine area who typically had dark straight hair.
The portrait is said to have the crown of thorns but the details are so unclear they are more likely to have been some sort of a laurel (as worn by gods or rulers). If these artefacts are 2000 years old it is too early for Christians to have developed a tolerance for representational art, they were still heavily influenced by the Old Testament prohibition on representational art…especially of God. The script on the lead plates if they were of the time of Christ should be readable (like the scripts on the Deadsea Scrolls), this script hasn’t been identified as yet.
Don’t get me wrong, I am fascinated by these artefacts but we all know that people who find or get hold of mysterious material like this will profit greatly if they can link it into the origins great modern religions such as Christianity and the Jewish faith. We are talking about millions of dollars if they can be linked to early Christianity or early Jewish sects.
They look authentic but authenticity hasn’t been established 100% as yet.
I really look forward for the real experts examining all those lead plates but they are having a hard time getting to examine more than a few of them. In the mean time the plates are not being properly looked after, some being dragged about as amulets, and have already suffered damage.
The text relating to the photographs in the article is telling us what we should be seeing and I always worry about that, like the face is said to be that of a ‘young man’ - I don’t see that. The portrait could be of anybody but as it is said to have curley hair, that would make it unlikely to have been a Jew or anyone then in the Palestine area who typically had dark straight hair.
The portrait is said to have the crown of thorns but the details are so unclear they are more likely to have been some sort of a laurel (as worn by gods or rulers). If these artefacts are 2000 years old it is too early for Christians to have developed a tolerance for representational art, they were still heavily influenced by the Old Testament prohibition on representational art…especially of God. The script on the lead plates if they were of the time of Christ should be readable (like the scripts on the Deadsea Scrolls), this script hasn’t been identified as yet.
Don’t get me wrong, I am fascinated by these artefacts but we all know that people who find or get hold of mysterious material like this will profit greatly if they can link it into the origins great modern religions such as Christianity and the Jewish faith. We are talking about millions of dollars if they can be linked to early Christianity or early Jewish sects.
They look authentic but authenticity hasn’t been established 100% as yet.
I really look forward for the real experts examining all those lead plates but they are having a hard time getting to examine more than a few of them. In the mean time the plates are not being properly looked after, some being dragged about as amulets, and have already suffered damage.
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boomerang
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The article said the plates date to the time of Jesus, but then stated that the writing was in Paleo-Hebrew. People weren’t using Paleo-Hebrew in Jesus’ time, as far as I know.
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Robert_Bay
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There is already a thread on this topic here
forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=1033469
forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=1033469
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