Jim West beat me to the blogging button on this one, but only by a little. The Express in the UK draws attention to Peter Thonemann’s view that the lead books are fakes.
They call them “scrolls” but that isn’t as bad as calling David Elkington a Biblical scholar. Probably the clearest evidence that he isn’t a scholar at all is found in his attempt at undermining Thonemann by saying “He’s not a biblical scholar, he’s a Greek classicist.”
Since the lead books seem to have some Greek writing on them (at the very least, Elkington’s earlier bronze plates did), and have not been shown to contain any part of the Bible, why would there be anything inappropriate about a classicist commenting on them? The only reason to prefer a Biblical scholar is if you have pre-judged the contents – or perhaps if you were involved in producing them.
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