Seventy metal books found in cave in Jordan could change our view of Biblical history

by Christopher Hessman


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. On pages not much bigger than a credit card, are images, symbols and words that appear to refer to the Messiah and, possibly even, to the Crucifixion and Resurrection.

Adding to the intrigue, many of the books are sealed, prompting academics to speculate they are actually the lost collection of codices mentioned in the Bible’s Book Of Revelation. The books were discovered five years ago in a cave in a remote part of Jordan to which Christian refugees are known to have fled after the fall of Jerusalem in 70AD. Important documents from the same period have previously been found there. Now you have to look over these items. These are very much consistent to the first century. It was said that these items were molded with lead and have been tested and came back and were consistent on make up and corrosion is consistent with age of 1800-2000 yrs by a specialist.
(David Elkington) Is the person whom had first hand knowledge of these lead Codices and had seen the face of Christ on the Lead Codices. There are also more closed caves which have yet to be investigated, what will these unknown caves further tell us of our earlier Christianity.


If this all is true what a miracle we have in our time, this day so short after Easter we have found Christ in a new brighter light. This is a miracle, our"SAVOR" there are so many more caves not opened yet. How, exciting is this in our time.

The prospect that they could contain contemporary accounts of the final years of Jesus’s life has excited scholars – although their enthusiasm is tempered by the fact that experts have previously been fooled by sophisticated fakes.

David Elkington, a British scholar of ancient religious history and archeology, and one of the few to have examined the books, says they could be ‘the major discovery of Christian history’.

‘It is a breathtaking thought that we have held these objects that might have been held by the early saints of the Church,’ he said.

But the mysteries between their ancient pages are not the books’ only riddle. Today, their whereabouts are also something of a mystery. After their discovery by a Jordanian Bedouin, the hoard was subsequently acquired by an Israeli Bedouin, who is said to have illegally smuggled them across the border into Israel, where they remain.

However, the Jordanian Government is now working at the highest levels to repatriate and safeguard the collection. Philip Davies, emeritus professor of biblical studies at Sheffield University, said there was powerful evidence that the books have a Christian origin in plates cast into a picture map of the holy city of Jerusalem.

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