David Elkington: Discovering the Lead Codices

Summary

The discovery of lead codices in Jordan presents a potential breakthrough in understanding early Christianity. David and Jennifer Elkington, who champion this find, claim that these codices could be the earliest Christian documents ever discovered, challenging established narratives. Their quest involves navigating conflicts over authenticity while facing personal threats to ensure the significance of these artifacts is recognized.

Key takeaways

• 1Lead codices believed to contain the earliest Christian documents
• 2Dispute between Israelis and Jordanians over the discovery site
• 3David and Jennifer Elkington: Researchers who fought to authenticate the codices
• 4Codices may pre-date the New Testament, complicating our understanding of early Christianity
• 5Personal threats faced by the Elkingtons in pursuit of their research

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Transcript excerpt

We talked about a lot of artifacts and buildings, temples, pyramids, and other structures here on Earth ancients. But I became aware of what it's known as the Lead Cotises probably about five years ago, and I had invited David Elkinson, who wrote the book on the topic called Discovering the Lead Curtises a few years ago, but he rebuffed me and said, no, I can't have you. I can't have I can't be on the program because I have too much information that I need to sort out and THEO is now not up to date. So I said, okay, we'll wait for you to come up with more data, and here we are. The data has been completed. And it's funny because they these are these interesting plates that we're going to learn about today that were found in Jordan in the Middle East in a cave system, and they brought so much controversy because the Church got upset immediately and said they were forgeries. The Jordanian government, the Egyptian government, the Israeli government all in it almost acquire like fashion, said this is fake. What are you doing? And a number of people, including David and his wife Jennifer, were able to get scientific evaluations done of these seventy plates which make up these books, and what we're going to hear about today is what they discovered. Hey, this is Cliff, your host of Earth Ancients, and what we're talking about is is known as the Jordan led Cotises. And I've been wanting to get this out for a while because not only is it significant, it's about as as significant as its Dead Sea Scrolls. Because when the Dead Sea Scrolls came out now almost seventy years ago, they were immediately dismissed. ...

Excerpt from Earth Ancients, Jan 24, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.