FAKE METAL CODICES WATCH: Tom Verenna has put together a video that summarizes the case that the Jordan metal codices are fakes. It's not quite ten minutes long, but is worth your time. Toward the end there is an additional—devastating—revelation about that Oxford metallurgical report on the lead.
(Although I am mentioned in the credits and I am a member of the biblioblogger cabal mentioned in the video, I had no involvement in the making of the video. Tom gets the credit for that, with feedback on earlier drafts from some members.)
UPDATE: Some of us have tried posting a link to the video on the Jordan Codices Facebook website, but these comments are swiftly deleted. I had added some screen grabs here, but I've taken them down, since that seemed like overdoing it.
UPDATE (4 September): Tom collects blogospheric reactions here.
UPDATE: Dorothy King has observations on the verisimilitude of the menorahs on the metal codices. Not surprisingly, there are problems.
UPDATE (5 September): Forgot the "Background here and links" link.
