Exclusive: Early Christian Lead Codices Now Called Fakes

[Snoutport]

Source: LiveScience

"I noticed there were a lot of Old Aramaic forms that were at least 2,500 years old. But they were mixed in with other forms that were younger, so I took a closer look at that and pulled out all the distinct forms that I could find," Caruso told Life's Little Mysteries, a sister site to LiveScience. "It was very, very odd — I've never seen this kind of mix before." The youngest scripts he identified, called Nabatean and Palmyrene, date from the second and third centuries, proving the documents could not possibly have been written during the dawn of Christianity, Caruso said.

Even the oldest scripts were written by someone who didn't know what he was doing, the new analysis shows. "There were inconsistencies in how they did the stroke order, which you would never have seen. Scribes had very specific ways of doing things," Caruso said. Furthermore, several characters appeared "flipped" — a mistake that would imply they were hastily copied rather than original.

Caruso's new analysis of the text corroborates the recent findings of a Greek archaeologist at Oxford, who said the images appearing in the codices, including one of Christ on the cross, are anachronistic. "The image they are saying is Christ is the sun god Helios from a coin that came from the island of Rhodes. There are also some nonsense inscriptions in Hebrew and Greek," Peter Thonemann told the press. He believes the codices were forged within the past 50 years.

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There will be some very disappointed people... any find that can be related to Jesus seems to get a rabid following and a wide amount of media attention.

[Keith Bee]

1. When they found the coins marked, "16 BC....."

;P

[angstlessk]

2. That is too fricking funny for words!

PMPROFLMAO!

[dipsydoodle]

4. Oh you wit

:rofl:

[gateley]

7. Bwah! nt

[JoePhilly]

12. My 3rd grader brought that home as a reading problem.

I was cracking up.

[snooper2]

3. Jesus did this to test you

don't believe what you read..

Believe my word...


Now bow and give me $50 each

[JuniperLea]

13. That would be...

Give me $50 or you are going to HEEEELLLLLLLLLLLL!!!

[Blue_Tires]

5. I blame Dan Brown

:silly:

[gateley]

6. I'm disappointed, but more for the historic value. I have to hand it to some of

these forgers, though -- they're pretty damn good!

[Snoutport]

11. They were works of art, to say the least.

I was impressed by them.

[gateley]

14. I saw kind of a documentary on fine art forgers, how they painted the forgeries

(flawless) beat up the canvass, etc., -- true works of art and incredibly talented people! Fascinating.

[Snoutport]

15. I've watched furniture builders in Bali turning newly built furniture into

what looked like 300 year old antiques. Pretty amazing!

[greiner3]

8. "Early Christian Lead Codices Now Called Fakes"

DUH

[valerief]

9. Gotta be the devil's work here. Gotta be. nt

[canetoad]

10. Never saw that coming! nt