The Daily Mail has the story about an amazing find in a Jordanian cave.
From the piece ...
If the dating is verified, the books would be among the earliest Christian documents, predating the writings of St Paul.
The prospect that they couldcontain contemporary accounts of the final years ofJesus’s life has excited scholars – although their enthusiasm is tempered by the fact that experts have previously been fooled by sophisticated fakes.
David Elkington, a British scholar of ancient religious history and archeology, and one of the few to have examined the books, says they could be ‘the major discovery of Christian history’.
‘It is a breathtaking thought that we have held these objects that might have been held by the early saintsof the Church,’ he said.
