{"id":197,"date":"2011-04-06T23:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T23:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/04\/breaking-news-lead-codices-not-forged\/"},"modified":"2011-04-06T23:21:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T23:21:00","slug":"breaking-news-lead-codices-not-forged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/04\/breaking-news-lead-codices-not-forged.html","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News: Lead Codices Not Forged!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/remnantofgiants.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/07\/latest-discovery-lead-codices-were-not-forged\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Remnant of Giants has a post which points out that the lead codices cannot have been forged<\/a>. To forge is what one does with <em>steel<\/em>; lead is more likely to be <em>cast<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Jokes aside, there is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/s346165667.websitehome.co.uk\/pm\/2011\/04\/lead-codices-from-jordan-some-notes-on-manufacture\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a serious\u00a0post about the process of manufacture of the lead codices at the blog Primitive Method<\/a> (HT <a href=\"http:\/\/paleojudaica.blogspot.com\/2011_04_03_archive.html#3389491554050729684\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jim Davila<\/a>).<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-603135759242632018?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u00a0a serious\u00a0post about the process of manufacture of the lead codices at the blog Primitive Method (HT Jim Davila).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Breaking News: Lead Codices Not Forged!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Remnant of Giants has a post which points out that the lead codices cannot have been forged. 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