Anonymous
6/10/2025, 6:52:08 PM
No.17752076
>>17751903
>argument from silence failed
>try moving the goalposts instead
>>17751941
The strongest evidence I can offer is the Ketef Hinnom Silver Scrolls since they date to 600 BC in Jerusalem, the same time and place as Lehi. They prove that, while it was certainly not a common practice, metal engravings are not anachronistic to the time and place. These are significant because they are our oldest discovered biblical texts.
There is also the Pyrgi Gold Tablets, dating to 500 BC in Italy. They are a bilingual dedication to a Phoenician goddess, showing that gold plates were used in other semitic cultures other than the Israelites.
There have also been bronze or lead "curse tablets" discovered around the Roman world. If you look into this, one purported to be "Biblical archeology" dating to like 1400 BC has recently been debunked but there are many more legit ones dating between 800 BC and AD 600. They served the same purpose as voodoo dolls.
The Golden Orphism Book is 6 gold leafs bound in a very similar way to Joseph Smith's gold plates. It's dated to 660 BC and the oldest example of a bound codex that we have. It's written in Etruscan, thought to be a Totenpass, which in itself is a class of inscribed metal plates used in burials.
So as I said, metal plates and codices rare (such is the nature of ancient archeological artifacts) but it's not unheard of nor anachronistic.
>argument from silence failed
>try moving the goalposts instead
>>17751941
The strongest evidence I can offer is the Ketef Hinnom Silver Scrolls since they date to 600 BC in Jerusalem, the same time and place as Lehi. They prove that, while it was certainly not a common practice, metal engravings are not anachronistic to the time and place. These are significant because they are our oldest discovered biblical texts.
There is also the Pyrgi Gold Tablets, dating to 500 BC in Italy. They are a bilingual dedication to a Phoenician goddess, showing that gold plates were used in other semitic cultures other than the Israelites.
There have also been bronze or lead "curse tablets" discovered around the Roman world. If you look into this, one purported to be "Biblical archeology" dating to like 1400 BC has recently been debunked but there are many more legit ones dating between 800 BC and AD 600. They served the same purpose as voodoo dolls.
The Golden Orphism Book is 6 gold leafs bound in a very similar way to Joseph Smith's gold plates. It's dated to 660 BC and the oldest example of a bound codex that we have. It's written in Etruscan, thought to be a Totenpass, which in itself is a class of inscribed metal plates used in burials.
So as I said, metal plates and codices rare (such is the nature of ancient archeological artifacts) but it's not unheard of nor anachronistic.