RANDOM THOUGHTS on the fake metal codices.
So just because one of the codices is a fake, does it mean they all are? Let's see. Some guy makes a major epigraphic discovery. So what does he do? He goes out and finds a forger and has the forger make up some very similar fakes and salts the real cache of codices with them. You believe that?
The tree iconography is the same on the demonstrably fake codex and one of the others. And they used the same mold.
Who puts alligators on their holy codices anyway?
(I predict that someone is going to e-mail me to point out an alligator on an ancient holy codex. That sort of thing happens to me a lot.)
Nevertheless, I'm going to throw caution to the wind and just say all of the metal codices are fakes.
A guy who thinks science and religion can be reconciled by the study of energy vibrations got fooled by forged antiquities. What is the world coming to?
David Elkington knew they were fakes when he started all this hoopla a month ago.
Want to take any bets on whether he showed Thonemann's letter to Davies and Barker?
The codices were in Sindaran anyway.
No one can get over the fact that Larry Hurtado said "Chill dude" to the director of the Jordanian Department of Antiquities.
Christianity Today couldn't even bring themselves to include the "dude" in the quote.
Shocker: The media misquoted scholars on the codices. And I'm not talking about the "dude," which is forgivable.
So far only Christianity Today and the Examiner have noticed that the codices are pretty much fakes.
Crickets chirping over at the BBC, the Telegraph, the Daily Mail, the Christian Science Monitor, and Fox News.
Kudos to the New York Times for ignoring the whole thing.
Bloggers rule.
That was fun! But I do hope that the next major "find" turns out to be, you know, real.
Back to the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha for me! I like my fakes ancient.
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