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It seems that something related to this actually came up recently. Someone with institutional cred claimed that a famous alleged Biblical manuscript from the 19
by leoc 4y ago
It seems that something related to this actually came up recently. Someone with institutional cred claimed that a famous alleged Biblical manuscript from the 19th century, long accepted to be fake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapira_Scroll https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapira_Scroll , was actually genuine all along, and it's a lot harder to settle the question definitively because no-one can find the thing anymore: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/10/arts/bible-deuteronomy-discovery.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/10/arts/bible-deuteronomy-di... .
- bombcar 4y agoThis is an important consideration - we do not have perfect knowledge of the last century let alone the last millennia. Imagine a painting being determined to be an elaborate forgery; it is NOT a genuine Da Vinci, it was faked! Later research determines that the faker was Michelangelo! But we already destroyed it ... not realizing it had just been mislabeled ages ago.
- ffhhj 4y agoImagine a Jesus Mono painted on top of an actually valuable painting that can only be seen with x-rays.
- Natsu 4y agoReading that, it's a scroll with unknown provenance (many wildly inconsistent stories were told about where it was found) from a guy who promulgated other frauds and all we have left is apparently a drawing of it. I don't think you can meaningfully authenticate a scroll from just that, especially not one with a dubious history like this.