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Old 05-02-2012, 01:08 PM   #41
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Mind closed, I'd say.
Institutions have a duty to protect their own culture.

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We are dealing with scholarship and its worth.
If you find that a particular institution does not meet your standards of scholarship, you are free to fight against it, as it is free to fight against you.


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Scholarly consensus has now been rendered a difficult concept to justify.
Scholarly consensus is a joke, a tyranny of the majority. Look at you, fighting the scholarly consensus on the historical Jesus. Makes my head spin.
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Mind closed, I'd say.
Institutions have a duty to protect their own culture.
This was a popular book, not a course text.

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Scholarly consensus has now been rendered a difficult concept to justify.
Scholarly consensus is a joke, a tyranny of the majority. Look at you fighting the scholarly consensus on the historical Jesus.
Then you certainly don't read the shitloads of appeals to authority flying around in the field of BS.

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Makes my head spin.
What makes your head?
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Old 05-02-2012, 01:21 PM   #43
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This was a popular book, not a course text.
It was still leveraged by his status within the institution.

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Then you certainly don't read the shitloads of appeals to authority flying around in the field of BS.
That's what I mean: it is all BS. One thing I admire about the mythicists is that they fight the scholarly consensus. What disgusts me, though, is that they don't want to overthrow it, they just want to put themselves on top.

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What makes your head?
Heh. I knew that I should have written, "Makes my head spin, spin."
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This was a popular book, not a course text.
It was still leveraged by his status within the institution.
In the sense that he was at an institution, ie any institution (given that LCU is no drawcard in itself), which demonstrates his scholarly status to the unwashed public. The institution would have gained as much as LeDonne. These sorts of books rarely make excessive amounts of money, unless you're a big name.

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That's what I mean: it is all BS. One thing I admire about the mythicists is that they fight the scholarly consensus. What disgusts me, though, is that they don't want to overthrow it, they just want to put themselves on top.
There is nothing wrong with scholarship and a responsible consensus of scholars. American universities are far too pecuniary to be much more than elitist wanktanks. (And universities in many other places are headed that way.)

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Heh. I knew that I should have written, "Makes my head spin, spin."
I guess you live and learn.
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Roger Pearse: Colleges and Universities hold themselves out to be places of free inquiry<snip reiteration>
You used my name here, but did not actually address my post.

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Larry Hurtado complains about the same problem: https://larryhurtado.wordpress.com/2...ful-cowardice/

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These are degree-granting institutions, supposedly committed to academic excellence (or so says their publicity), yet behaving in a paranoid manner toward their own academic staff, because on some matter arising from their scholarly work they say or write something that bothers some high administrator.
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