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Being a religion skeptic may feed your ego, but if you actually want to know about Glastonbury, here are two books for perusal:
Traditions of Glastonbury, by E. Raymond Capt, and Did Our Lord Visit Britain, by C.C. Dobson

Being a religion skeptic may feed your ego, but if you actually want to know about Glastonbury, here are two books for perusal:
Traditions of Glastonbury, by E. Raymond Capt, and Did Our Lord Visit Britain, by C.C. Dobson

I am very sorry, MHGinTN... No, I'm not... I'm actually quite proud of it...

I demolished E. Raymond Capt on a previous thread on FreeRepublic that, unfortunately, has been deleted because of the antics of one of Capt's followers. I was so incensed by Capt's unscientific, unhistoric, idiotic claims that I spent a lot of time and some long distance phone calls tracking down his bona fides.

I demolished Capt by showing that his own biography on his now-defunct website was a tissue of lies... claiming degrees and honors he had not received from organizations that, in many cases, did not exist.

Capt claimed to hold valid California Teaching Credentials in Biblical Archaeology and History... neither of which exist (the closest was Social Studies) nor can his name be found on the searchable website of the California Department of Education's list of valid credential holders, past and present.
He claims to have graduated and received a masters degree from Covenant College in Lake Wales, Florida, (Urban population: 10255, Rural population: 47)... but Lake Wales has NEVER had a Covenant College. In fact, the ONLY college in Lake Wales, Warner Christian College, was founded in 1968, 17 years after Capt claims to have graduated from a college in that city. The only Covenant College in the Country was founded in St. Louis the YEAR AFTER Capt claims to have graduated from it and then moved a year later to Los Angeles. It then moved to Lookout Mountain Georgia seven years later, where it still operates. They never graduated anyone named Capt. As far as they know, there were no previous Covenant Colleges.
Capt claims to have received his doctorate from the Accademia per L'Avanzamento di Scienza in Rome, Italy, which he claimed had been established in 57 BC... making it the oldest institution on Earth... older even than the Catholic Church. Yet this august academy had absolutely NO internet presence except on one website (now deleted): E. Raymond Capt's biography page. (see side note below)
He is also a member of the Archaeological Institute of America... a membership without distinction. To be a member one just needs to subscribe to their magazine... sort of like the National Geographic Society.
Capt also claimed an honorary doctorate degree and honors as well as membership in the The National Archaeological Society of Wales granted to him because of his scholarship proving the Welsh connection to the Holy Land.... but they do not confer degrees... and had no record of an E. Raymond Capt in their membership.

Why was this important? Because Capt claims to have proved that the Aryans are the true Jews and are the true lost tribes of Israel. He says he deciphered 20,000 Cuneiform tablets in the Berlin Museum of Natural History that relate the story of how the Tribes of Israel migrated to northern Europe, Wales and Scotland and are the true inheritors of God's covenant. The Jews who claim to be Jews, according to Capt, are actually Turks who merely wanted to be Jews! This played into the Aryan Nations and other White Supremacists who feature Capt's books on their websites.

The tablets exist... but have been translated long ago and are merely records of commercial trades... not a history of the lost tribes of Israel.

Anything that Capt writes is probably just as inaccurate as his own biography. I would not give it any weight at all.

(Amusing side note: There is now another reference to the Accademia per L'Avanzamento di Scienza... and it points to an Italian page that is a translation of an English page that refers to studying the effects of Yiddish on the English Language... but the original English page is no longer valid. Funny... especially considering Capt strongly anti-Semitic works.)

I already know about Glastonbury. It’s a late legend invented around 1250. A story with no history prior to 1250 of an event that supposedly happened in 50 is not trustworthy history.