Jerry Vardaman could have become convinced of Nazareth in the priestly courses from:
Samuel Klein and the liturgical hymn
Michael Avi-Yonah, based on Klein, published in 1962, likely available earlier, by or at the time of the 1962 dig.
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None of this would justify fake archaeology, but it can help explain the Jerry Vardaman motivation, if he seeded the Nazareth fragment. Not a crazed apologist faking history, but simply, in his mind, using his archaeological position to “help” confirm the historical truf.
This also is consistent with the equivvocation noted in his writing, that maybe the Nazareth fragment did not match the other fragmnnts. A neat cover if the seeding attempt blew up, as happened to Simomides in Turkey in 1851.
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Samuel Klein and the liturgical hymn
Michael Avi-Yonah, based on Klein, published in 1962, likely available earlier, by or at the time of the 1962 dig.
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None of this would justify fake archaeology, but it can help explain the Jerry Vardaman motivation, if he seeded the Nazareth fragment. Not a crazed apologist faking history, but simply, in his mind, using his archaeological position to “help” confirm the historical truf.
This also is consistent with the equivvocation noted in his writing, that maybe the Nazareth fragment did not match the other fragmnnts. A neat cover if the seeding attempt blew up, as happened to Simomides in Turkey in 1851.
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Statistics: Posted by Steven Avery — Wed Dec 11, 2024 2:43 am