Dan McClellan has posted several recent pieces on the Jordanian lead codices that are highly recommended. Other than his collection of photos (very cool), he focuses on analysis. For insights into the fabrication of the artistic work on the codices, this analysis is a...
Inscriptions, dubious
Hoaxing Ancient Documents Isn't New
Quite an interesting post from Prof. Larry Hurtado's blog today. The post focuses on an out-of-print book by Edgar J. Goodspeed (Famous Biblical Hoaxes, or, Modern Apocrypha). It was originally published in 1931 (repr. 1956). Hurtado's post sketches a litany of...
Lead Codices to Be Tested
Todd Bolen reports today that the lead codices already widely considered to be fraudulent will be undergoing testing by antiquities authorities. For those of you just getting up to speed on this, here's a link to an overview of the reasons they are considered fakes. I...
Debunking of “Yahweh Inscription” (Allegedly) from Jebel al-Lawz
Talk about great timing. Just this past Wednesday in my Ancient Israel class at Western Washington University I covered some of the hokey "evidences" put forth by less-than-reputable Christian archaeologists in defense of Jebel el-Lawz as the true location of Mount...
Evidence for the Biblical Joseph Discovered?
This just in from the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), who translated the news release from Al-Ahram. The claim is that archeologists have discovered ancient Egyptian coins bearing the name and image of the Biblical Joseph. You can read excerpts of the...
Micromorphologic Examination of the ‘Gabriel Revelation’ Stone
An update from April DeConick on the Gabriel Inscription. Editor's note: content of the link has been reproduced below:From The Forbidden Gospels: Article Note: "Micromorphologic Examination of the 'Gabriel Revelation' Stone (Yuval Goren), originally published January...
Apocalypse of Gabriel Stone Update
From April DeConick's blog. Editor's note: link's content is reproduced here.From The Forbidden Gospels: Report on the Apocalypse of Gabriel Stone, originally published on Jan. 2, 2009: Report on the Apocalypse of Gabriel Stone Over the holidays, I did have a chance...
The Columbian “Genetic Disk” Fraud
The aptly-named Archaeological Fantasies blog has a lengthy discussion of the so-called genetic disk. As you might guess, this disk is supposed to be proof of advanced biological knowledge in the ancient world. It's bunk.
Update on the Lead Codices from Jordan
I'm guessing the of the lead codices is off the radar of most readers by now. Jim Davila posted this notice on his PaleoJudaica blog today that provides some updating and commentary. I'm with Davila; I think they are fakes for very good reasons (as he sketches here --...
New Meta-Site for the Lead Codices Hoax
Thanks to Mark Goodacre for alerting the blogging community to the new site by Steve Caruso that aggregates all the data and evidence pertaining to the lead codices fakery. Very handy and very well done.
Lead Codices: It's Looking Like a Hoax
Dr. Jim Davila over at PaleoJudaica as this post this morning on the codices. The post features a short, to-the-point, evidence-based analysis by professor Peter Thonemann, of some of the pages of the codices, noting inconsistencies in the story and, more importantly,...