Simultaneous appearance of written language and common man

Suppose we discovered a new find. A scroll which is purported to have been written by Jesus himself.Do you have any ideas on how we might try to date that scroll to see if it's the real thing?It could be a fake from the 13th century, or maybe it dates from 20AD.What would you do?

Coyote,I know you do archaeology so I thought I'd ask you. I'm a petroleum geologist who makes and drills his own oil and gas prospects and only took 2 courses in anthropology so I'm no expert.Peg likes having the Sumerians with the first written language at 3000 BCE(I think we will find the Chinese had it first). I'd like to ask you how a date like that is determined. I could be wrong, but it is my understanding a date like that is determined using stratigraphy, sedimentation, and radiocarbon dating.If that is true I'm trying to figure out how Peg can accept a date for language tablets from Sumeria when the same three methods show there was no flood and therefore are "unreliable". I.e.,they must be wrong for one but right for another.Looks like data selection bias to me.Edited by petrophysics1, : make my point clearerEdited by petrophysics1, : No reason given.

This is what I was getting at. I know the tablet itseft cannot or rarely can be dated.The context you are refering to is the tablets position in a dig, is that correct? Which would mean you take into account the sedimentation and very small scale stratigraphy at the dig.So if a tablet is found below some organic material dated at 2800 BCE it should be older than that taking into account any sedimentation disturbances or evidence of earlier digging?Would that be correct?