Fake metal codices tidbits

FAKE METAL CODICES WATCH: A few small tidbits for a slow day. First, a brief reference to the codices in an article attributed to Deutsche Press-Angentur entitled "Jordan recovers 620 artifacts from Israel, says official." The artifacts mentioned in the title are from the Early Bronze Age and thus outside the interest range of PaleoJudaica. But this paragraph is included:

In March this year, the Jordanian government said that it was seeking the recovery from Israel of about 70 ancient Christian codices which were discovered by a Jordanian Beduin in a cave in northern Jordan between 2005 and 2007 and were later smuggled to Israel.

I take it from this that there is no more progress to report on the extradition of the codices.

Also, a blogger for the Jewish Chronicle notes the debunking of by Peter Thonemann and also cites Tom Verenna's essays in Bible and Interpretation: Metal gurus. That's at least a little progress.

On the off chance that you missed my radio interview on Sunday, I also discuss the fake metal codices briefly in it. If you couldn't get the podcast to work, there are new links in the updates which should be good.

Background to the codices is here with endless links.