Mr Elkington hit back at Dr Thonemann yesterday: “He’s not a biblical scholar, he’s a Greek classicist.It's not surprising that Mr. Elkington resorts to a completely irrelevant ad-hominem attack rather than replying to Dr. Thonemann's devastating argument, but it does show that Elkington is getting desperate. (And one has to ask why Elkington himself contacted Thonemann in the first place if he thought his specialty wasn't relevant.) James McGrath takes the article and Mr. Elkington's comments apart in detail here.
“Dismissing the provenance of the books on the basis of two low resolution photographs by e-mail is out of order.
Background here (immediately preceding post).
