{"id":11231,"date":"2011-04-03T22:00:11","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T02:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=11231"},"modified":"2011-04-03T22:00:11","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T02:00:11","slug":"easter-is-coming-up-so-we-were-due-for-a-new-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2011\/04\/easter-is-coming-up-so-we-were-due-for-a-new-find\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter is coming up so we were due for a new find"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my blog policies has been that whenever some item is found in Israel that is suppose to date from the time of Jesus, is to not post on it and wait a week. \u00a0That has held me in good stead since they always turn out to be fakes that oddly turn up only during Lent\/Easter. \u00a0This time 70 thin lead books have shown up along with the hype about what it could mean concerning Jesus. \u00a0As of today I was able to still find plenty of stories about this find. \u00a0This is despite the fact the Bibliobloggers called them fakes on Friday. \u00a0Via Michael Barber<\/a>:<\/p>\n

While media reports have sensationalized the story, academic bloggers have been slowly picking this apart. Mark Goodacre has an\u00a0excellent round up<\/a>. See also James McGrath’s\u00a0post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

How do we know the discovery is a fraud? Well, for one thing, as Peter Thonemann at Oxford has\u00a0pointed out<\/a>, the Greek text was written by someone who apparently doesn’t know the Greek alphabet! Most amusingly, the writing mixes up the Lambda (the Greek “L”) and the Alpha (the Greek “A”). Not a very promising sign of authenticity!<\/p>\n

So. . . we can all move on now. Of course, don’t hold your breath for the retractions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"\"\"\"\"The media always hopes for that bit of evidence to prove Christianity false despite the fact that the Crucifixion and Resurrection were historical events that were documented to some extent outside of Christian sources. \u00a0Really I wish they would find some authentic document of that time period. \u00a0When it turned out to attest to the historicity of the times boy would they be bummed. \u00a0I can just see their sour faces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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