medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On 04/05/2011 09:53, Cate Gunn wrote:
>
> This is rather early for medievalists, but might still be of interest: A
> recent article (April 23rd) in The Economist - not a journal many medrel
> subscribers read? - has an article entitled 'An Easter enigma' which
> asks 'Whatever happens to the Hebrew Christians' in a discussion of the
> discovery of 'a collection of lead codices which might, if they are
> genuine, throw light on the missing links in Christian and Jewish
> history.' The article concludes 'by stirring a discussion about the
> resonance of certain images to Jews and Christians alike, the lead
> objects have refocused attention on a deep but contentious commonality.'
The codices are not, of course, genuine. In the TLS for 8 April there is
a note from Peter Thonemann (Wadham College, Oxford) who last year was
sent photographs of one of the copper codices. After half an hour in a
library, he had identified the source for a Greek text on it: a Roman
tombstone datable to AD 108/9 currently on display in the archaeological
museum in Amman... He told Elkington that the codex was a modern
forgery, produced by a resident of Amman in the last fifty years. All
the codices seem to be from the same workshop, and all professional
scholars who have seen them have dismissed them as obvious fakes.
John Briggs
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