on ‘absalom’s tomb’ in jerusalem and nephesh monument iconography

Posted on February 28, 2012 by bobcargill

Here’s a thought: In response to Simcha Jacobovici’s sensational claims of a “Jonah’s Great Fish” icon on a burial ossuary in Jerusalem, Duke University’s Dr. Eric Meyers states the following: In fact, the image in the book is so poorly reproduced in my copy that one suspects it has been intentionally altered so that no [...]

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maximize the money, archaeology be damned: simcha jacobovici claims ‘new’ evidence of jesus

Posted on February 28, 2012 by bobcargill

On December 8, 2012, in response to learning that Simcha Jacobovici had sued one of his more vocal critics, Joe Zias, I left the following comment on Jim West’s blog: How much do you want to bet that this law suit was filed a couple of months before the release of Simcha’s ‘next big thing’? [...]

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you must buy this book: Portrayals of Economic Exchange in the Book of Kings by Roger Nam

Posted on February 21, 2012 by bobcargill

The latest from Brill is “Portrayals of Economic Exchange in the Book of Kings” by my colleague and friend, Dr. Roger S. Nam. Here’s the blurb: With the growing proliferation of literature concerning the social world of the Hebrew Bible, scholars continue to face the challenge of a proper understanding of ancient Israel’s economies. Portrayals [...]

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no, no the dead sea scrolls do not ‘confirm’ the discoveries of the hubble telescope

Posted on February 14, 2012 by bobcargill

Dilly Award Nominee! In what is nothing more than cheap, sensationalistic, and deliberately misleading press designed to promote a ridiculous, pseudoscientific, Intelligent Design theory about the relationship between the Hubble Telescope and the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Christian Newswire (“the nation’s leading distributor of religious press releases”) released this tripe. ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 14, 2012 [...]

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ARRRGGGHHH: the ramblings of an idiot

Posted on February 9, 2012 by bobcargill

Rick Santorum said words yesterday, which means there’s a good chance he threw logic and facts to the wind and simply made stuff up. Really? 4000 years of human history? That’s ‘traditional marriage’? Rosemary Joyce at Psychology Today has some pesky facts that speak to this claim. (HT: Morag Kersel) And 4000 years? That’s as [...]

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