The ‘Newly Discovered’ Jesus Scrolls: More Fraud

Matthew Kalman writes

From those nice people who brought you the Hitler Diaries. Not only are the scrolls fake, most of the reporting on this story in both the Sunday Times and the Mail is, too. Here’s the original three-week-old story from where the Sunday Times ripped this off. They were “discovered” a century ago, not recently, and have been labelled forgeries by all the leading experts.

http://www.thejc.com/judaism/judaism-features/46028/heavy-metal-secrets-a-mid-east-cave

MK

So those who have supposed them to be the real deal, bad news, it’s just more bogus rubbish.

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4 thoughts on “The ‘Newly Discovered’ Jesus Scrolls: More Fraud

  1. Say no more.

  2. Seems like we have fake discoveries about Jesus at Easter…

    Almost every Easter.

  3. Pingback: Artefacts Discovered in Jordan Cave: An Account of Jesus’ Last Years? | Fr Stephen's Blog

  4. Emanuel Goldstein

    And the odds are that anti theists, as a disinformation tactic, are behind it.

    It happens again and again.

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