Seen at the SBL
Here area some more photos from SBL. These were taken on Monday, arranged in chronological order of snappage.
Rick Brannan and John Fallahee of Logos Bible Software
Ron Cox, my colleague at Pepperdine
Claudia Camp, author of Wise, Strange, and Holy
Peter Trudinger, who won a $50 Eisenbrauns “shopping spree” on Sunday
Jim Eisenbrauns and James Spinti
My Pepperdine colleague
Tim Willis, his mother Evelyn, and his father John Willis, who was my M.A. advisor at Abilene Christian University
Bob Cargill of Virtual Qumran fame
Accordance gurus Martha Halladay and Helen Brown
1 comments Christopher Heard | professional societies
Re Bob Cargill of “Virtual Qumran fame”: I am troubled that Bob hasn’t responded to the review of the film by historian Norman Golb, in which Golb argues that the claims being made in it are patently false and misleading. Golb’s review is on the University of Chicago website.
http://oi.uchicago.edu/pdf/san_diego_virtual_reality_2007.pdf
Of particular concern is a passage (pp. 6-7) discussing a marginal comment in Mr. Cargill’s film script that apparently was not intended for publication, and in which Cargill appears to be referring to a secret “reason” for certain choices he makes–a reason Cargill says he “never writes down.”
If false claims are indeed made throughout the film, the attitude of secrecy and concealment signaled in such a statement clearly raises serious ethical issues. What troubles me is that Cargill hasn’t answered any of these allegations. Where I come from, silence is an admission of guilt. Either Golb is wrong, in which case the allegations should be answered; or he’s right, in which case it’s extremely worrisome that such a film is being projected to thousands of people every day in a major museum exhibit.
Let’s exercise some responsibility, folks, and call on Mr. Cargill to respond to the allegations without any further delay.