Thursday, March 17, 2005

THE SBL FORUM for March is devoted to forgeries. Here's a list of the articles. I don't have time to read them right now, but they look very interesting. I may comment on some of them later.

The Antiquities Market, Sensationalized Textual Data, and Modern Forgeries: Introduction to the Problem and Synopsis of the 2004 Israeli Indictment
by Christopher A. Rollston
and Andrew G. Vaughn

The Forgery Indictments and BAR: Learning From Hindsight
by Edward M. Cook

The Crisis of Modern Epigraphic Forgeries and the Antiquities Market: A Palaeographer Reflects on the Problem and Proposes Protocols for the Field [1]
by Christopher A. Rollston

The Probability of Forgeries: Reflections on a Statistical Analysis
by Andrew G. Vaughn
and Carolyn Pillers Dobler

The Jerusalem Syndrome in Biblical Archaeology [1]
by Yuval Goren

The Saga of the Yonan Codex
by Bruce M. Metzger

Epilogue: Methodological Musings From The Field
by Andrew G. Vaughn
and Christopher A. Rollston

Access to my blog accounts has been somewhere between spotty and nonexistent for some time. I hope the situation improves soon, but meanwhile I'll try to fill in the backlog as time and dodgy Blogger software allow.

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