That's the title of Mark Goodacre's recent post on the Talpiot tomb debate. I highly recommend the post, as it illustrates this logical fallacy very clearly and applies it to the Talpiot tomb material.
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Two Items Regarding Talpiot B and James Tabor
I'm just reading James Tabor's post regarding Prof. James Charlesworth's apparent discovery of the name "Jonah" on the ossuary that purports to have a fish symbol on it. If that turns out to be a true inscription (looks pretty reasonable to me), then that would...
Talpiot Tomb Makes Another Round in the Blogosphere
Thanks go to Mark Goodacre of Duke University for this short post linking us to a recent paper about the alleged Jesus family tomb. As is typical, Mark clearly and succinctly summarizes the two primary points of weakness in the tomb argument -- weaknesses that were...
Dan Brown and the Grail That Never Was
That's part of the title of this 2004 scholarly article that examines Brown's Jesus bloodline mythology. I don't believe I've posted it before (going through the archives this weekend). The author is apparently a medievalist. It's a succinct, readable dismantling of...