tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9396860.post111451742812760798..comments2024-03-28T08:41:17.341-04:00Comments on <center> Ralph the Sacred River </center>: Misreading the Forgery ScandalEdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05188482189638751204noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9396860.post-1114534655665580822005-04-26T12:57:00.000-04:002005-04-26T12:57:00.000-04:00Jan opined,There are a number of people who are su...Jan opined,<BR/><I>There are a number of people who are suspected - on good grounds, as far as I can tell - of tarnishing the reputation of individual scholars, journals and perhaps an entire discipline, yet they are not the main object of reproval and anger, but the persons and institutions who exposed their supposed deceit or merely discussed it. This must be the modern version of killing the messenger of bad news.</I><BR/><BR/>It isn't really a case of killing the messenger. BAR, Shanks, et al, are the problem- they are not merely the "announcers" of it. Indeed, they have not even admitted that there is a problem and are trying mightily to support their contention that the Ossuary inscription, for example, is authentic. By having it on their cover, promoting it, then wrangling the Toronto museum to charge people to see the thing... No, they aren't mere messengers.<BR/>Best,<BR/><BR/>JimJimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16698562143972216357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9396860.post-1114526729713994192005-04-26T10:45:00.000-04:002005-04-26T10:45:00.000-04:00Jan-Wim, as always your comments are much apprecia...Jan-Wim, as always your comments are much appreciated. Thanks for your support!EMChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02505525490002421093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9396860.post-1114525352439482392005-04-26T10:22:00.000-04:002005-04-26T10:22:00.000-04:00We are clearly dealing with an interesting psychol...We are clearly dealing with an interesting psychological phenomenon here. There are a number of people who are suspected - on good grounds, as far as I can tell - of tarnishing the reputation of individual scholars, journals and perhaps an entire discipline, yet they are not the main object of reproval and anger, but the persons and institutions who exposed their supposed deceit or merely discussed it. This must be the modern version of killing the messenger of bad news.<BR/>This sad course of events is especially serious since it draws the attention away from the fact that the only way to regain the freedom to study and discuss unprovenanced objects (and they will always be there, often much more interesting than objects from official excavations) is to get to the bottom of this affair.<BR/>Ed, please keep up the good work! Jan-Wim Wesselius, Theological University of Kampen, The NetherlandsJan-Wim Wesseliushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07744228692215821862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9396860.post-1114521705041884902005-04-26T09:21:00.000-04:002005-04-26T09:21:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Jan-Wim Wesseliushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07744228692215821862noreply@blogger.com