Secret £14million Bible in which 'Jesus predicts coming of Prophet Muhammad' unearthed in Turkey Re

[cleanhippie]

A secret Bible in which Jesus is believed to predict the coming of the Prophet Muhammad to Earth has sparked serious interest from the Vatican.

Pope Benedict XVI is claimed to want to see the 1,500-year-old book, which many say is the Gospel of Barnabas, that has been hidden by the Turkish state for the last 12 years.

The £14million handwritten gold lettered tome, penned in Jesus' native Aramaic language, is said to contain his early teachings and a prediction of the Prophet's coming.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2105714/Secret-14million-Bible-Jesus-predicts-coming-Prophet-Muhammad-unearthed-Turkey.html#ixzz1nVkJriXk

[WingDinger]

1. Yeah, like Mac eats contracts on It's always sunny in philly.

[Drale]

2. If I where a religous man

the fact that the Turks have held it captive for 12 years would make me suspicious as well.

[rug]

3. The Daily Mail is my go-to publication for archaeology.

" . . . . Pope Benedict XVI is claimed . . . . '

" . . . . is said to . . . . "

" . . . . discovered by Turkish police during an anti-smuggling operation in 2000 . . . . "

" . . . . thought to be . . . . "

" . . . . could be . . . . ""

" . . . . he is said to have told . . . . "

" . . . . some believe it is a fake . . . . "

" . . . . unlikely to be authentic . . . . "

" . . . . might have been . . . . "

You should cross-post this in LBN.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Not to mention the bogus million pound values thrown around

with no justification. It does not seem anything like this has been auctioned in recent years; how can they say it's a "£14 million tome"?

[rug]

9. They must have overheard the smugglers whipering twelve years ago.

[intaglio]

4. Yet again I refer people to the sage advice of Dan and Dan

[JDPriestly]

5. +10000

[mr blur]

7. I hear it's bound in a piece of material left over from the Turin Shroud

I read it in the Daily Mail.

[Kurmudgeon]

8. "In line with Islamic belief, the Gospel treats Jesus as a human being and not a God."

That right there, plus the fact it didn't even exist till centuries after Christ's Birth and Resurrection means it's the work of later people with different beliefs. It's an interesting historical artifact, nothing more.

[cleanhippie]

10. So you are saying that people write these things to mirror their beliefs of the time?

[edhopper]

14. All the Gospels

were written after the the Birth and Death. ( I omit the dubious Resurrection)

[Ron Obvious]

11. About 1500 years old, eh?

So that's 500 years after the putative birth of Jesus and right around the time of Mohammed, then?

I'm convinced.

[dmallind]

12. It's deliciously ironic to see believers getting suspicious based on non-contemporaneous writings.

[rug]

13. I think the suspicion is more based on the Daily Mail.