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Códices de metal encontrados na Jordânia podem mudar a história do Cristianismo

Encontrado na Jordânia há alguns anos e recentemente descoberto em Israel, um grupo de “livros” de metal pode conter informação vital sobre o cristianismo primitivo.

Um dos códices de metal recentemente encontrados na Jordânia

Could this be the biggest find since the Dead Sea Scrolls? Seventy metal books found in cave in Jordan could change our view of Biblical history (via DailyMail Online)

For scholars of faith and history, it is a treasure trove too precious for price.
This ancient collection of 70 tiny books, their lead pages bound with wire, could unlock some of the secrets of the earliest days of Christianity.
Academics are divided as to their authenticity but say that if verified, they could prove as pivotal as the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947.

Better than the Dead Sea Scrolls? (via The Periscope Post)

Are the Jordan codices the most important Christian texts ever found, or elaborate forgeries? […]
The Jordanian government has vowed to use “all means at its disposal” to recover the artifacts. But should they really bother going to all the trouble?
Are these codices for real?

Jordan battles to regain ‘priceless’ Christian relics (via BBC)

They could be the earliest Christian writing in existence, surviving almost 2,000 years in a Jordanian cave. They could, just possibly, change our understanding of how Jesus was crucified and resurrected, and how Christianity was born.

A group of 70 or so “books”, each with between five and 15 lead leaves bound by lead rings, was apparently discovered in a remote arid valley in northern Jordan somewhere between 2005 and 2007.

Could lead codices prove ‘the major discovery of Christian history’? (via YahooNews)

The codices turned up five years ago in a remote cave in eastern Jordan—a region where early Christian believers may have fled after the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE. The codices are made up of wirebound individual pages, each roughly the size of a credit card. They contain a number of images and textual allusions to the Messiah, as well as some possible references to the crucifixion and resurrection. Some of the codices were sealed, prompting yet more breathless speculation that they could include the sealed book, shown only to the Messiah, mentioned in the Book of Revelation.

Update em 27/04/2011:
Jordanian Police Recover 7 Ancient Manuscripts

Escrito por Laura Klemz Guerrero em 30 de março de 2011

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