Quote:I did not make myself clear in your terms. Detective work in this case is the search for physical evidence. One then develops a theory to explain the physical evidence.
Fuck. I had 80% of a reply written...covering everything from broken pottery to the Silver Scrolls and lost it while trying to get a link.
Well....I've been around the edges of this discussion before.
From Archaeologica.org 3+ years ago.
http://archaeologica.boardbot.com/viewto...=45#p56776
The discussion goes on for a while....you can see from the thread title that it began with a discussion of Nazareth....demonstrating that we are no more successful at staying on topic over there than we are over here!