medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: Robert Kraft <[log in to unmask]>
>For an online review by a respected NT text critic, Keith Elliott, see
> http://www.bowness.demon.co.uk/thiede.htm
this site is interesting from a number of points of view, not least the way it
lays out this "popular literature" phenomenon.
"But whereas the professional journals were consistently hostile to Thiede's
theories and to this book, the popular press was intrigued and sympathetic.
...Newspaper reports generally hyped the whole thing up, as is their style,
but I doubt if any of this was unwelcome to the authors. ...The popular media
can obviously represent opposition by academics to Thiede as the professional
jealousy of disgruntled scholars who have singularly failed to produce a
manuscript as revolutionary as Thiede claims to have done! ...."There must be
something in it" gullible folk may say."
lots of nonsense falls into this catagory and owes its propogation to this
sort of "reasoning".
c
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