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2005-04-17 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Satellite-Imaging Techniques Unlock Ancient Documents/Secrets

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Posted by Frank G 2005-04-17 2:23:50 PM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Only a tiny amount of the work of the ancient Greeks has come down to us. The rest was thought lost forever. There are people the Greeks themselves thought important thinkers that we only know about becuase someone else mentions them in their writings.

Posted by phil_b 2005-04-17 3:45:54 PM|| 2005-04-17 3:45:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 a series of Christian gospels which have been lost for up to 2,000 years. Well... 1800-1900 years anyway ;-) I've heard talk about this before, but it's very exciting to know how much material they have to draw on. This will enrich our understanding of the historic earth our present is rooted in -- in a way that The DaVinci Code couldn't possibly. Even more will be discovered, no doubt, when they apply similar techniques to over-written parchment palimpsets. What wonderful times we live in!

Posted by trailing wife 2005-04-17 3:47:10 PM|| 2005-04-17 3:47:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Here is a longer article.

Posted by phil_b 2005-04-17 3:52:36 PM|| 2005-04-17 3:52:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 The DaVinci Code was a mishmash of half-digested gnostic stories and current pop culture projected into the past.

Elaine Pagels' books on the diversity of cults, thought and practices in the first century AD is the real thing, although she has watered down the scholarship to make it readable. We'll see if what these palimpsets have actually include new gospels, or if they are the full versions of gnostic and other writings which are excerpted in the early church Fathers.

It would be great to find some of the missing books of Greek writers, especially.

Posted by M.Div. 2005-04-17 3:55:00 PM|| 2005-04-17 3:55:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Agreed, M.Div., but it was a fun read -- cotton candy for the brain, if you will. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2005-04-17 8:47:54 PM|| 2005-04-17 8:47:54 PM|| Front Page Top

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