Vorkosigan

I just got Tabor's "The Jesus Dynasty" in the mail from Amazon today. It's your basic liberal scholar accessible Jesus book, long on speculation, methodologically suspect, and lacking due skepticism toward sources. Heh. Very lacking.

Tabor believes that the James Ossuary is real. It's hard to believe that anything resembling a critical mind could think that at this late date, and there are the usual wrong claims about the abilities of paleographic evidence, etc. He was of the crowd that thinks the bone fragments in it ought to be DNA tested, partly, I think, to look for Jesus DNA, but also because he thinks he knows where the ossuary is from originally, and he wants to see if a DNA match can be made between that material and material from the site where he thinks it came from.

Anyway, Tabor makes some rather...er...remarkable claims for Golan, among them that his only inconsistency was changing his story of when he found the ossuary, and was wondering if anyone knew of a substantial write up on the internet, with a detailed list of Golan's many lies and obfuscations.

Also, Steve Carr, we had a thread in which you and I discussed Golan switching his story about when he first saw the other ossuary inscription with the identical inscription to the James Ossuary. I think it was in the preface to Witherington's book. I'd sure like to use that thread in my review if you can remember which one it was.

Vorkosigan

Steven Carr

It is indeed recorded in Witherington's book that Golan knew how rare such an inscription was and how exactly it matched that in a catalogue.