Actually, he was involved in other questionable activities.From an unbiased perspective, this shows that he didn't create a fake.What that means is that noting that Jerry Vardaman (with possible support at times from Nikos Kokkinos and definite support even today from Ronald L. Conte) is generally considered delusional in his chronology interpretations based on micro-letters, "micrographic letters". Vardaman was seeing stuff that was not there, and then using what he "saw" as evidence for his chronology. Not a good look.
His thing is weird micro-letter interpretations instead of forgeries.
e.g.
In the 1957 Shechem excavation, five years before the 1962 Nazareth fragment discovery, he is described by G. Ernest Wright, Professor of ASOR as ...
https://www.academia.edu/95426473/The_1 ... scription_
Jerry Vardaman was an unmitigated disaster from start to finish. Hence, we could not invite him back for solid training. He does
not have the judgment, the temperament, nor the essential honesty and solidity of personality that he could be trusted with any work in the Near East on his own...
... He simply cannot be trusted to do anything right, not even when he is watched every minute. He is as devious and as untrustworthy an ambassador in the Near East as any man could possibly be.
=============================
As for how the forgery would have been accomplished (by forgers in Jerusalem, not by Jerry Vardaman himself) I placed a post that covers the source accusation material.
Jerry Vardaman and the suspicions of forgery of the Nazareth fragment of the Caesarea Maritima inscription
Forgery Assistance in Jerusalem
https://www.purebibleforum.com/index.ph ... post-20740
=============================
Statistics: Posted by Steven Avery — Tue Dec 10, 2024 2:22 pm