Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Have Been Looking at Images of the Lead Books Recently Discovered in Jordan All Day
I was one of the first to report on this discovery. I think they might be from the bar Kochba revolt but that's just speculation. It is too early to tell. The script is Samaritan (or old Hebrew). There are representations of what look like a nine-armed menorah (hannukiah). In any event here are the images as I have them:
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dating back to conversations with his grandfather, Gaston Frank. "He said we represent one of the last descendants of the Frankist Jewish faith in the world," he muses. "I grew up thinking that our family was something like the Last of the Mohicans."