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Re: orion-list Baigent & Leigh (was Angel Scroll)
Dear Greg,
I do agree with Prof. Vermes, that the refusal on the part of the small
group of scholars (mainly Catholic) not to publish those manuscripts for
almost forty years, was indeed a "scandal".
I am convinced, on the basis of the statements made by John Strugnell and
several dignitaries of the Roman Catholic Church with whom I had
conversations in the last twenty years, that there was an agreed policy,
coordinated by the Vatican authorities, not to publish the documents or
to release them at a very slow pace ( forty or more years) in order to
avoid some possible crisis in the world of scholarship. Theologians do
not like to be confronted by history; they prefer to write their own
interpretations and claim that they are based on revelation.
Baigent did not invent their facts; they got most of them from Eisenman
and Shanks who had recorded some of them on tape.
We do not live in the age of Galileo anymore.
Leo
For private reply, e-mail to leorose@juno.com
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