THIS SOUNDS LIKE A PARODY, but it isn't:

Professor acts out drama in ancient, religious studies

By Christine Cole | Special to the [Orlando] Sentinel
Posted April 29, 2005

MOUNT DORA -- For Kenneth Hanson, history is as full of adventure as any Indiana Jones movie.

That is the way he teaches the subject at the University of Central Florida, where he is assistant professor of Judaic studies.

To turn scholarship into accessible drama, he recently created a theatrical work, Jerusalem Jones: Mystery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, in which he plays a swashbuckling character reminiscent of the part made famous by Harrison Ford.

He and a four-piece band will perform the originally scored production at 3 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Gematria 888 Center.

Hanson also plays a cast of colorful characters, including the Bedouin shepherd boy who in 1947 went into a cave in the cliffs near the Dead Sea and found the first of what would become known as the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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Here is Kenneth Jones's faculty entry on the University of Central Florida website and here is one of his web pages, which mentions this show. And it seems there actually is a Gematria 888 Center.

The world is full of surprises.