Re: Scholars Urge More Study of Inscription Purportedly Naming Jesus

David Christainsen wrote:
> Matt Giwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
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> > David Christainsen wrote:
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> > > Matt Giwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
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> > > > David Christainsen wrote:
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> > > > > Friends,
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> > > > > By LOUISE CHU
> > > > > http://www.newsday.com/news/science/wire/sns-ap-jesus-inscription,0,3332549.story?coll=sns-ap-science-headlines
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> > > > > "I don't know for sure whether this is a forged inscription, and I'm
> > > > > sort of cast as a defender of the inscription. I'm not," said
> > > > > moderator Hershel Shanks, editor of the Biblical Archeology Review,
> > > > > which published the initial findings. "What I do know is, Israeli
> > > > > authorities have badly managed the affair."
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> > > > 	Keep in mind the BAR has no academic standing whatsoever.
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> > > Keep in mind Dr. Thiering "accepted the media reports that the alleged
> > > ossuary of James is a fake."
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> > 	In what manner does that give her some small measure of respectibility?
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> > > DNA
> > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/qumran_origin/message/2843
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> If you take the time to study Thiering articles in close detail,
> I believe you will notice your own deficiency by badly underestimating
> the strength of her arguments based on objective data.

	I have asked you to present just one bit of physical evidence that just one of her 
peshers is correct. You have declined to do so. Therefore there is no reason to waste the 
time.

> It is your responsibility to do any such re-evaluation; otherwise,
> your comments here come off as polemic and nobody knowlegeable will
> take you seriously when you comment on Dr. Thiering or Christian/Qumran
> Origins at all.
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> If you continue your typical slanging, I just drop out as a correspondent
> on the newsgroup for you.

	Why should I care?

	It would not be the first time you have done that.