Hi Greg,

I don't know if any or all of the stones were forgeries, when the ruins on the mountain top at Los Lunas and the bulwarks of the complex at Newark and Puratoire River Valley, Colorado are taken into consideration it does make a case for the existence of the for ancient Hebrew cultures in the Americas. Did the forgers fabricate the structures also?

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[www.jqjacobs.net]

<[www.faculty.ucr.edu];
SEMETIC AMERINDIANS IN MEXICO:
The Spaniards…wondered if perhaps these Indians were not descended from those ancient Jews who were exiled from Palestine more than fourteen hundred years before. But how, they asked themselves, would the Jews have got here? Well, the Jews knew how to build ships and it would have been possible to sail across the Mediterranean, through the Strait of Gibraltar, then cross the ocean, wouldn’t it? Furthermore, several of the Spaniards came up with an odd fact to support this theory: Indian priests in Zempoala had shown them how the obsidian knives–the sacrificial knives–were also used for circumcision, which was known to be a Jewish rite. Ergo, these Indians might be Jews.

"Antonio de Montezinos, a Marano (secret Jew), while journeying in South America in 1641, (had an) Indian guide (who) greeted him with, ‘Shema Israel (Hear, O Israel).’ Furthermore, the guide reported that many people ‘of the same origin’ were living in the highlands near Quito, Ecuador. He also claimed that he met savages who followed Jewish practices.

[personal.stevens.edu]
Dr. Altman analysis reaches the following conclusions regarding the Newark stones:
“The artifacts could not possibly have been created in the nineteenth century; nobody had
the knowledge necessary to do so. Indeed, nobody who previously examined these
artifacts has recognized that two of the artifacts are inscribed in the ancient incantation
format. Nor has anyone previously realized that the ‘peculiar’ font is a consolidated
design or that it is a grid font typical of scripts and fonts used with incantation formats. It is rather clear that no one until today has recognized the Late-Medieval Hebrew script
that is the base-script of this consolidated grid font. The ‘Newark’ Ritual artifacts are
neither forgeries nor relics of ‘Ancient America.’ They are, however, very important
concrete evidence of Ancient and Medieval Israelite practices.”

[chapmanresearch.org]
James D. Tabor wrote:
I have become tentatively convinced that the Los Lunas inscription offers solid evidence
that ancient Israelites explored and settled in the New World in the centuries before the
Common Era. Whether we can precisely date this encampment, based on Mr. Deal’s
astronomical evidence, remains in discussion. However, I have little doubt, nor does Dr.
Gordon, who is one of the world experts on ancient inscriptions, that the text itself is
authentic and was written sometime B.C.E.

Does anyone have evidence that Tabor came to a different conclusion?

Regards