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Via Jim West<\/a> and Jim Davila<\/a>, there is further information<\/a> about alleged lead books discovered in Jordan which supposedly provide contemporary accounts of Jesus. It seems like most of what came through in the Daily Mail<\/a><\/i> article is (surprise surprise) hype and misunderstanding of a bit<\/a> of old news<\/a>.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Via Jim West and Jim Davila, there is further information about alleged lead books discovered in Jordan which supposedly provide contemporary accounts of Jesus. It seems like most of what came through in the Daily Mail article is (surprise surprise) hype and misunderstanding of a bit of old news.\u00a0<\/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-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nLead Books about Jesus? 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