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Artifact Analysis
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- The Jesus Tablets
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70 or so lead books, each the size of a credit card, inscribed with Hebrew writing in a kind of code and with what appear to be Christian symbols. Are these the earliest Christian books?-
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- Bibliography
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- Baker, Hilary. "Press Release (on Behalf of David and Jennifer Elkington): Secret Hoard of Ancient Sealed Books Found in Jordan." Scribd.. London (22 March 2011). Online, http://www.scribd.com/doc/51540533/Lead-Plates-Press-Release, accessed 30 March 2011.
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- Craig, Olga. "Could this Couple's Bible 'Codices' Tell the True Story of Christ's Life?" Telegraph.co.uk (3 April 2011). Online, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/8423689/Could-this-couples-Bible-codices-tell-the-true-story-of-Christs-life.html, accessed 29 November 2011.
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- Davila, James R. "There's Now a Press Release on Those Inscribed Lead Plates." PaleoJudaica.com Blog (22 March 2011). http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/
2011_03_20_archive.html#7212642836945675345, accessed 30 March 2011.
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- Hurtado, Larry. "More on the Lead Codices." Larry Hurtado's Blog: Comments on the New Testament and Early Christianity (and related matters) (29 March 2011). Online, http://larryhurtado.wordpress.com/2011/03/29/more-on-the-lead-codices/, accessed 30 March 2011.
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- Luck, Taylor. "Christian History on the Market." The Christian Science Monitor 103:24 (9 May 2011) 12.
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- Parry, Dilan. "The BBC reports that recently found codices are "the major discovery of Christian history" - But, is this a story that's far too good to be true?" A Reluctant Sinner Blog (31 March 2011). Online, http://areluctantsinner.blogspot.com/2011/03/bbc-reports-that-recently-found-books.html/, accessed 29 November 2011.
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- Pigott, Robert. "Jordan Battles to Regain 'Priceless' Christian Relics." BBC News: Middle East (29 March 2011). Online, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12888421, accessed 30 March 2011.
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- West, Jim. "Philip Davies on the 'Newly Discovered' 'Jesus Plates' (Scrolls, Whatever)." Zwinglius Redivivus Blog (22 March 2011). Online, http://zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/philip-davies-on-the-newly-discovered-jesus-plates-scrolls-whatever/, accessed 30 March 2011.
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- Other Resources on the Use of Lead and Cryptic Writing in Antiquity
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- Faraone, Christopher A. "The Agonistic Context of Early Greek Binding Spells." In Magica Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion (ed. C. Faraone and D. Obbink; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991) 4-32.
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- --------. "Binding and Burying the Forces of Evil: The Defensive Use of 'Voodoo Dolls' in Ancient Greece." Classical Antiquity 10:2 (1991) 165-205, 207-220.
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- Gager, John G. Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
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- White, Donald "The Eschatological Connection between Lead Ropes as Reflected in a Roman Imperial Period Coffin in Philadelphia." Israel Exploration Journal 49:1-2 (1999) 66-91.
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