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outhouse wrote:Candidas take on it all.

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/21/livin ... ummy-mask/

From the article:

"It is unclear why anyone would start talking about a text like this, a year, indeed now at least two years, in advance."

Because apologists are facing an unprecedented wave of skepticism via the Internet generation, and are even more defensive and insecure now than they've ever been before, and are clinging to this mad idea that if they find the earliest papyrus to mention their god-man 'Jesus', that will be the ultimate weapon to silence the skeptics.

This article, in Italian, describes new methods of seeing the writing on inner surfaces of the carbonized scrolls from Herculaneum. The method does not require unrolling, and thus, destroying the scrolls.

http://www.ansa.it/scienza/notizie/rubr ... e7351.html

You'd think they could do something like this with mummy cartonnage -- ?

adding:

Just saw that Stephan posted on the same item (in English!):

http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-scrolls-s ... 18464.html

Diogenes the Cynic wrote:I admit that I am more interested in the texts than the masks. Right or wrong, I'll own it.

But Mazza says the texts can be read without destroying the masks anyway.

Yes but articulating outrage gives us an angle on the manuscript absent any real evidence, and it's always handy to have a timely thing to comment on in this field. Otherwise we're just slogging over the same old stuff eh.

Mazza has stated that she thinks cartonnage more important than texts. Which is curious since most cartonnage is of no importance at all.