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In a previous story we reported on the oldest Christian books. We are now reporting to you that they are fakes, and not even good fakes!

James McGrath says

The biblioblogging community should be proud. It seems that yet again the collective effort of scholars and other interested parties with blogs has shed more light on an issue than the media or any one individual managed to, and has done so quickly and effectively. The next time someone asks “Why blog?” I will mention this as an example of the sort of thing that makes blogging worthwhile for all.

These are the blogs that investigated the forgeries:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2011_03_27_archive.html#7454369078247746754

http://danielomcclellan.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/peter-thonemann-on-the-lead-codices/

http://ntweblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/lead-codices-fake.html

http://networkedblogs.com/g9ysa

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