Re: Critic confronts museum over Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:42:18 -0700, in sci.archaeology,
view.is.here@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Has anyone seen this vicious debate about an exhibit of the Dead Sea
Scrolls taking place in San Diego?

http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/did-christian-agenda-lead-biased-dead-sea-scrolls-exhibit-san-diego

I responded in the other thread, but here's my response again:

The arguments get very heated. A director of the Israeli Department of
Antiquities claimed Thomas L Thompson's favorite book was The Protocols of
Zion (a lie of course). Shanks and Frank Moore Cross (described on one
site as an 'ancient Albrightian' are accused of calling people who
disagree with them anti-Semitic.

See also this:
http://individual.utoronto.ca/mfkolarcik/jesuit/finkelstein.html

and a site quoted in the page you give above is one I like, by the way:
http://www.number80.co.uk/

What I hadn't seen at the time is a similar article by Charles Gadda,
again, do read the comments. I wonder who 'B Ralph' is? He is certainly
vituperative!

http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/christian-fundamentalism-and-dead-sea-scrolls-san-diego#comments
http://tinyurl.com/2ll7d9

Doug
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