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I knew I should have kept the hell away.

So, reasonable doubt in law is different from reasonable doubt in archaeology. I know what you are getting at, Min, but I just don't buy it.

I'm trying to get my head around this. If the script is proto-Hebrew then does the issue devolve to whether it is capable of supporting OT tales?

What are the implications of the script not being Hebrew?

If the text is not Hebrew does it matter much? If the date is right then isn't it evidence for the probability of Hebrew writing existing at the same time?

From your link: Badgering on the stand by Golan’s defense lawyers of epigraphers and other experts proves only that Golan has good lawyers, not that the experts are wrong. I think this sums it up. Nomatter what the outcome of the trial nobody will change their minds about anything. I don't know if p...

I was wondering too.
When I first joined this forum I got into a good exchange with him and then he disappeared.

Min: Historian Antonio Lombatti with a recap of the arguments against authenticity. Lombatti comments and criticises the ossuary according to six points - provenance, palaeography, inscription, traditional belief about James’ tomb, the patina and Mr Forger himself. The first five constitute the acad...

Here is an artist's impression, based on scientific observations, of how electromagnetic energy from the Sun interacts with and holds the Earth in place.

I thought gravity and other Newtonian forces held the earth in place.

A few days ago we had the suggestion that Edomite culture was more advanced than previously thought. Now, this: An Israeli archaeologist has discovered what he believes is the oldest known Hebrew inscription on a 3,000-year-old pottery shard — a find that suggests Biblical accounts of the ancient Is...

Ish: How do you know that Kleopatra is a woman?

What do you think I am? Don't answer that.

Kleopatra: Welcome Oh Sexless One.

The whole charges thing reeks of politics and personal vendettas. Couldn't agree more + the blow-torch of religion. many of those doing the complaining are Israelis and I guess they have an equal right to complain about their government as we do about our's. Not in the face of circumstantial eviden...

Don't forget the court is considering specific charges for which these other things may not be directly relevant. The police found a mass of stuff to implicate Golan in villainous activity and he was clearly up to no good but that may not have constituted evidence for the charges for which our boy i...

I suppose you have checked out the daily news. The link for the hoax box item is broken. This one works: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/30/MN3U13QHMD.DTL Looks like your friend Oded is going to get away with it. After reading Burleigh's book this comes as no real surprise.

Ishtar wrote:I'm thinking that you do actually want an answer ... otherwise, you would have just deleted your original post.

After giving this careful consideration I have decided that you are wrong.

Permit me to gracefully withdraw.

May the Chaos be with you.

John - took one look at your references and ran a mile; it's just too much to take in with everything else that's going on; but thanks anyway.

BUT if you know of a reference that applies fractals to history or the academic pursuit of history or the philosophy of history . . .