Ari provides instructions on how to make your own metal plates – and wisely chooses to illustrate with aluminium rather than lead. Jim West shares evidence which may show that the forger of the lead plates used another fake in making them! Jim Davila notes that Art Daily has been taken in by the AP article about the lead plates. So too has the New York Post. And from the first article, it seems that the Jordanian government has been taken... Read more

Via The Stoa Consortium, I learned of this call for papers: Workshop Call for PapersFebruary 13-14, 2012Brown University The Program in Judaic Studies in collaboration with the Brown University Library’s Center for Digital Scholarship is pleased to announce plans for a two-day workshop devoted to investigating the ways in which the digital humanities has or can change the study of religion in antiquity.  The workshop will take place on February 13-14, 2012, at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. We... Read more

Remnant of Giants has a post which points out that the lead codices cannot have been forged. To forge is what one does with steel; lead is more likely to be cast. Jokes aside, there is a serious post about the process of manufacture of the lead codices at the blog Primitive Method (HT Jim Davila). Read more

I am somewhat late in linking to the post at TheoFantastique about a church in Australia that has begun having sci-fi themed services. And in related news, Robert Geraci has a piece on Ray Kurzweil’s vision of salvation through technology at Religion Dispatches. Read more

Since the lead codices from Jordan are getting so much attention, I thought I should share an exciting set of artifacts that recently came into my possession. I purchased, from a purveyor of all sorts of authentic new and antiquarian items of indisputable authenticity and scholarly value who shall remain anonymous, a set of ceramic mugs…inscribed with cuneiform. Below is a picture of one of the items in question: What do others think? Should I see if the Daily Mail will... Read more

From Steve Caruso, inspired by a post by Doug Chaplin on this perennial theme: Read more

After much debate and uncertainty, new evidence (actually, old neglected evidence) has finally confirmed that NT Wrong is in fact a women. Bibliobloggers who wondered, but in particular NT Wrong herself, will be glad that the matter is finally settled, and that the appropriate pronoun can be used henceforth in reference to her. Female bloggers will hopefully take encouragement from this, as will all who felt that there was gender imbalance in the biblioblogosphere. Much of the blogging may have... Read more

Here are the latest posts and news items from around the blogosphere related to the lead codices: Dan McClellan links to an article by Peter Thonemann in the Sunday Times about the lead codices. Jim Davila has a roundup of the latest “media dupes” as well as multiple other updates. Darrell Pursiful links to an article at GetReligion which in turn links to and surveys media treatment of the topic in various outlets. Joel Watts wonders whether a raid by... Read more

There’s a very simple, useful web site, CatchVideo.net, which allows you to download a YouTube in the simplest manner possible. Just type the address of the video in on the web site, choose the format, press the catch button, and choose where to save it. It is that simple! For those who worry that a video may disappear, or are finding it difficult to embed into a PowerPoint presentation, or want to make a mash-up, or need or want to... Read more

Jim West reproduces a statement by Robert Deutsch on the lead plates. Read more