Pending authentication and study, this could be a very interesting find.

Don't forget these plates were found long ago and their provenance is questionable. They were found either 5 years ago or over 100 years ago, either in Egypt or Jordan as the story varies, taken to Israel, then lost for awhile, now rediscovered by someone connected with biblical forgeries. It sounds to me like these plate need to be stored in the James Ossuary along with the many pieces of the True Cross, and the Shroud of Turin.

Apr 1, 2011 -- 2:28PM, mountain_man wrote:

Don't forget these plates were found long ago and their provenance is questionable. They were found either 5 years ago or over 100 years ago, either in Egypt or Jordan as the story varies, taken to Israel, then lost for awhile, now rediscovered by someone connected with biblical forgeries. It sounds to me like these plate need to be stored in the James Ossuary along with the many pieces of the True Cross, and the Shroud of Turin.

True, MM.  They did not come to light "in situ."

Provenance will be tough.  And just a note, radio carbon dating works only with organic material, not with metals.

Well, Iron, these plates, if genuine or not, are available for all to view, and the aren't in some language translated by only one man who we must "trust" both for the reality of the plates and the veracity of the translation.

But, I don't expect you to be willing to see or admit that difference.

Apr 1, 2011 -- 3:48PM, Ironhold wrote:

And to think -

 

Those of us who are Mormon used to get laughed at for putting forth the notion of potentially sacred writings being kept on metal plates.

No, nobody's laughing about that, Iron:  Just merely that those 'magical' plates aren't in "Reformed Egyptian," whose squiggles, cerley-cews, and weird characters, JS claimed were some ancient, dead language, spoken by millions in North America, with steel mills, civilisations numbering in the millions, that suddenly went Poof!, and disappeared just a few 1500 some years ago, without a trace.  But, who's to worry, that civilisation either is the ancient Toltec, Mayan, Patagonian, Inuit, Irondiquot, or Hill Cumorah civilisation, or in the alternative, the Reformed-Eygyptian speaking civ is somewhere in Cloudcuckooland.

Nah, ain't nobody laughing here.  No, Sir.