Not really, Arnaud. There is an entire genre of popular books based on really silly fictive Biblical "discoveries," some by credentialed scholars that appear to have defected to the "dark side" for much more money than a university professor makes. Good scholarship is not a "men's club" that is responsible only to their own circle of colleagues but, imo, has a duty to inform or re-inform a public misled by the hucksters of nonsense. This not an exclusive money making scheme by non-credentialed preacher-archaeologists uncovering the Ark of the Covenant or Noah's big wooden boat except real academics chasing the book royalties can make it sound believable and compelling.
Jack Kilmon
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From: "Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud AT wanadoo.fr>
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 6:54 AM
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] My name translated to ancient Hebrew.
It does not have to be "debunked".
That kind of analysis is nonsense in the first place.
Even considering that it needs to be debunked is absurd.
Arnaud Fournet
----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Roberts" <josephroberts3 AT gmail.com>
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 8:03 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] My name translated to ancient Hebrew.
To me this article here proves beyond a doubt that the bible codes can not
be true as the textual varriants cause a huge problem
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jtigay/codetext.html
-Joseph Roberts
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Kevin W. Woodruff <cierpke AT prodigy.net>wrote:
Andrew:
The Bible Code phenomenon was debunked by one of my professors James Price
by finding messages that were negative with regards to the faith.
http://www.nmsr.org/neg-code.htm
Kevin
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