Know Your Archaeoporn: Impossible Knowledge Part III

In the last post on Impossible Knowledge, I looked at Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval’s attempt to develop a reasoning behind the arrangement of for the Giza Pyramids, and its failures. This was, however, not Hancock’s only attempt to develop a source for ancient African societies. In his novel, Sign and the Seal, [...]

I Get Comments

Every now and then I get a comment that deserves more notice than it’s likely to get sitting on the back of some old forgotten post.
I thought I would bring this one, by Paul S. to the front page.  It’s in response to this post.
Don’t fool yourself. James Tabor is not a “good guy”; anyone [...]

Kilty and Elliot Redux

As noted by Dr. James Tabor, Kevin Kilty and Mark Elliot have produced a response paper to some commentary on their original paper.
Overall the paper, which is available online here, is unremarkable. The point I do wish to address though, is where the authors write:
Again, we do not see merit in this assertion. For [...]

James Tabor on the Statistics

Dr. James Tabor has a post up about Feurverger’s paper finally being published (it would have perhaps been better if the documentary had come a year after the peer review, instead of the other way around).
I haven’t had a chance to read it yet, as I am busy trying to get through some stuff for [...]

Talpiot Tomb Redux

Ok, there has been a lot of stuff going on in the world of academic blogs concerning the recent Talpiot Tomb conference, and I thought I would bring up some important updates.
First (alternative site), a number of scholars have, in an effort becoming known as the Meyers/Magness statement, a group of scholars have signed on [...]

Talpiot Tomb Conference

Both Time and the Jesus Dynasty blog have brief articles concerning the recent conference in Jerusalem concerning the Talpiot Tomb, presented by Princeton Theological Seminary, under Dr. J. Charlesworth.
The Time article is a bit too wrapped up in the issue to it being Jesus’ tomb, and focused on the possibility of this. The interview [...]

Talpiot Tomb: Reviewed, Part II

With this article, I begin looking at the pieces published in the most recent Near Eastern Archaeology, concerning the Talpiot Tomb and its proposed identification with the family of Jesus. Dr. James Tabor, the leading scholarly proponent for such an identification has noted these pieces as supporting the discussion and importance to [...]

Talpiot Tomb: Reviewed

Recently, I had a chance to talk with Dr. James Tabor, concerning his work on the identification of the Talpiot Tomb with the “Jesus Family”. Dr. Tabor took note of my strong objections to such an identification and the methodology used to support it. He suggested that I read over the [...]

James Tabor, a Good Guy

I have been critical of James Tabor’s work quite a bit on this blog, and I still feel that my critiques of his popular writing and methodology hold true.
However, I do want to say some things about Dr. Tabor as a person, and the merits of some of his other work, in order to be [...]

James Tabor, Pimpin’ His Bad Self

James Tabor’s current blog post, found here, is all about how flattered he is to be spotlighted in US News and World Reports, and of course that his readers should go out an pick up a copy today.