Want Your Own ‘Athena’ Based ‘Lead Codex’?

Just pop over to any bazaar in Jordan and pick one up.  Robert Deutsch sends along these photos of the very thing you can have for your own, cheap!

The codices being presently hawked by fraudsters are of the same sort: copies of things commonly found in museums around the Levant.  If you want to waste your money go ahead.  But really, you can haggle for a cheap one anywhere in Jordan.  All you have to do is go.

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God Willing, This Will be the Last Time Anyone, Anywhere, Mentions These Feckless Codices

Tom has the latest barrage and a video is viewable here that Tom produced and which was examined by various and sundry for accuracy and content.

The Elkingtons need to throw in the towel and return to doing their space alien invader research and never again approach a biblical studies topic. Not only are they really dilettantish at it, but they just don’t have any clue at all concerning actual honest scholarship.

Anyway, the Good Lord willing, this will be the last anyone anywhere hears of these feckless lead codices (unless an actual scholar discovers something meaningful- but given the clearly bogus and fraudulent nature of the ‘find’ I just don’t see that happening).

Philip Davies’ PEQ Essay on the ‘Lead Codices’

Is available, in PDF, for free, here.  The essay came out in July.  I don’t remember if I mentioned it then or not but since the purveryors of the ‘codices’ are pushing the media to prop up public interest (in order to pump up the price), it’s worth mentioning now (with thanks to Dan McClellan for mentioning it).  Philip begins

The explosion, in the popular media, of stories about lead codices apparently discovered in Jordan has been followed by a burst of ‘revelations’ on the internet about them and about some of the persons involved. The confident claims, on the one hand, that these are genuine early Christian (or Jewish) products have been met with equally confident assertions that these are a transparent forgery. There remain a few, including myself, who find some of the reactions on both sides premature and unscholarly. Faced with certainties on both sides, it is becoming harder and harder to insist that we do not know the full truth yet and possibly never will, and that in the meantime there are clues but no certainty.

I suppose I’m guilty of judging the artifacts early on as bogus.  I still think they are.  I’ve seen no reason to accept them as authentic, remarkable, or really even newsworthy.  I still wish the whole story would disappear but until it does I feel obliged to remonstrate against it.

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Elkington Isn’t the Only One Keeping The Lead Codices Idiocy Alive

So are we all, every time we mention it.  And sadly we have to mention it because if we don’t our silence is taken as agreement with the lies told by those hawking the rubbish for profit.

We stand on the horns of a dilemma.  To mention it is to aid in the spreading of interest in the fraudulent objects.  To fail to mention it is to drop our responsibilities as scholars to debunk and demythologize.

I can only hope for two things:

1- That Elkington and his ignorant cohort will just disappear into silence so that the whole subject rightly dies off as it so richly deserves.  And

2- That all those persons who somehow for whatever bizarre reason or other have interest in such nonsense will go back to playing their World of Warcraft game.

I Couldn’t Care Less

That the ‘Jordan Lead Codices’ have their own Facebook page.  No I won’t be linking to it.  No I won’t be friending it.  I’ve heard several folks mention it and I just find myself utterly unconcerned about it.  Those in the know (particularly Robert Deutsch) have made it painfully clear that they are bogus nonsense.

So chase them if you must, but I’ve better things to do.  I’m sure some reprehensible depraved evildoer needs a scolding.

A Few More Photos of the Jordanian ‘Lead Codices’

You know, the lead ones from Jordan that are ‘as important as the Dead Sea Scrolls’…

Robert Deutsch kindly sent these along, including the one of the Herodian coin which is copied on the codices.  And be sure to take a quick look at Jona’s post wherein he points out the silliness of saying that carbon 14 testing has been done on inorganic material….