# How difficult will it be to translate and release the content of the Jordanian Codices?

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**Created:** [April 1, 2011, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-difficult-will-it-be-to-translate-and-release-the-content-of-the-jordanian-codices/576874 "2011-04-01T22:38:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-difficult-will-it-be-to-translate-and-release-the-content-of-the-jordanian-codices/576874/1 "2011-04-01T22:38:52Z")

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Apparently some bound lead plates have been found in Jordan.

> **[Jordan Lead Codices](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Lead_Codices)**
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> The Jordan Lead Codices (or the Jordanian Codices) are a collection of codices allegedly found in a cave in Jordan and first publicized in March 2011. A number of scholars and a November 2012 regional BBC News investigation initially pronounced them fakes. In December 2016, a radioactivity test performed at the University of Surrey's Ion Beam Centre confirmed the old age of the lead used and that the text could not have been added later as it was not inscribed but was formed when molten lead wa...

> **[Lead Codices discovered in Jordan could be earliest Christian texts](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=602759)**
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> From http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12888421 Clearly we will have to wait for a great deal more uncovering and interpretation, as well as what will probably be a protracted ownership battle, but this could be fun… Of course, they...

How difficult is it likely to be to get the content translated and published, and how long would it probably take?

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**Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-difficult-will-it-be-to-translate-and-release-the-content-of-the-jordanian-codices/576874/2 "2011-04-03T03:01:08Z")

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> [@robert\_columbia](#):
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> How difficult is it likely to be to get the content translated and published, and how long would it probably take?

[Not long, it seems.](http://danielomcclellan.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/peter-thonemann-on-the-lead-codices/) Too bad.