Dr. Cargill and others have been buys debunking the latest pre-Easter hype from Simcha and Associates (Archeologists and Photoshoppers, Inc). Anyway, the venerable Simcha has posted on Dr. Cargill’s blog,
….The fact is that a handful of scholars are suffering from what Prof. Yosef Garfinkel calls “paradigm-collapse trauma.” That is, literary compellations of groundless arguments, masquerading as scientific writing through footnotes, references and publication in professional journals (BAR, May/June 2011, p. 47)….
Dr. Cargill later responds,
Agreed. And your life has apparently taken you to discover the real route of the historical Exodus (“The Exodus Decoded”), the actual tomb of Jesus (“The Lost Tomb of Jesus”), the very nails of the cross of Jesus (“The Nails of the Cross”), and now the Jonah and the Whale ossuary, the “the earliest archaeological record of Christians ever found” (“The Jesus Discovery“), despite being “neither an archaeologist, nor an academic” (-Simcha Jacobovici, “The Nails of the Cross: A Response to the Criticisms of the Film,” jamestabor.com, June 22, 2011, p. 45.).
You must admit, that’s pretty spectacular! Life has either led you to become the most prolific archaeologist of all time, or your archaeological career is based upon pure speculation…
I’m going to with pure speculation…
Anyway, make sure you read the entire post.
Related articles
- Michael Heiser on the ‘Jesus Discovery’ (zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com)
- Jesus Discovery: A Cave Used to Bury Disciples in Jerusalem (frstephensmuts.wordpress.com)
- The Simcha Strikes Back (zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com)
- New find revives ‘Jesus Tomb’ flap (cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com)
- ‘The Jesus Discovery:’ Simcha Jacobovici and James Tabor Claim to Have Found the Tomb of Jesus (ibtimes.com)
- Cargill on the Real Motive of Jacobovici and Tabor: Money (zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com)
- Robert Cargill on Simcha’s Suit (zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com)
Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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