A case of Slander, Lies and the Dead Sea Scrolls

Archaeology News ^ | Wednesday, November 24, 2010 | Jewish Journal

[gleeaikin]

I think that one of the problems is that Golb used 80 false identities to defame and economically damage the other guy.

[RobRoy]

>>Common era? what in the world does that mean?<<

It means “after Christ’s death”. I like to think of it as “AD”. :)

[ml/nj]

Interesting. I will be seeing Professor Schiffman tomorrow evening. He has referred to some legal proceeding that he has been involved in, but I didn't really know what it was about before reading this.

ML/NJ

[Sherman Logan]

Common era? what in the world does that mean?

I'm afraid I don't get this controversy.

"Common era" refers to the commonly used calendar start point.

Christians are a minority of the world's total population. I think we should be proud the entire world uses the (approximate) date of Christ's birth as its "common era" regardless of what they call it. By doing so they implicitly recognize the overwhelming importance of this event in history.

AD stands for "anno domini," or "in the year of our Lord." It is not reasonable to expect those who do not recognize Christ as their Lord to use this term.

Nobody is stopping you from using AD if you choose.

[Sherman Logan]

BTW, you can read CE as “Christian Era” if it makes you feel better.

[BenLurkin]

"Hateful because the only possible reason to use it is so you will not use Christ."

EXACTLY.

[colorado tanker]

BCE - so simple a cave man could do it.

[DWar]

Twist it back on the libs, and say CE="Christ Era", and BCE="Before Christ Era"

Very nice. I'll be doing that from now on!

[Steve Van Doorn]

I am not sure what you mean gleeaikin by false identities?

[gleeaikin]

When I read the rest of the article, I believe that 80 different on-line identities were used to slander and make suspect Cargill’s thesis. Read is yourself and let me know if I misunderstood.

[Steve Van Doorn]

You mean like an anonymous post such as “gleeaikin”

I am one of the very few people on the net that uses his real name. This is quite troublesome if people are being prosecuted for saying something incorrect using on-line identities.

[gleeaikin]

First of all how do you know this isn’t my real name? Secondly I am not using this or 79 other identities to hide behind a slander campaign against someone.

[MHGinTN]

It is a fascinating subject.

[Steve Van Doorn]

The article states "errors" not slander.

This is most troublesome if we are held accounted for errors we make on the net.

[Steve Van Doorn]

the title says slander the article says errors.