Dear Diary,<\/p>\n
This year for my April Fool\u2019s Day prank \u2013\u00a0wait \u2019til you get a load of this \u2013\u00a0I am going to go around pretending that I had a brother named Jesus, that he was crucified by the Romans, and (this is the best part) also say that he was the Messiah.<\/p>\n
I am sure that no one will fall for it for long, since the whole idea is so ludicrous. But it will be fun just\u00a0to irk those pious Pharisees. I am particularly looking forward to that guy Paul from Tarsus fuming over this \u2013 he\u2019s such a jerk.<\/p>\n
Yours as always,<\/p>\n
James son of Joseph<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
A picture of the\u00a0lead plates\u00a0with the inscription highlighted<\/a> as well as an explanation of the way the code was cracked<\/a> can be found online. <\/p>\n Those involved in the project to decipher the plates have qualified the translation as slightly uncertain, since using a different decription key, the text reads as an ancient Jewish recipe for matzoh ball soup.<\/p>\n I am delighted to be able to share the breaking news that a group of scholars, led by Prof. Herrmann U. Tichs of the University of Nirgendwo, has managed to crack the code on the lead plates that\u00a0have recently been in the news,\u00a0and has offered an initial transcription and translation. The text, if they have […]<\/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-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/mrwriteon.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/april-fuls.png\")