Gabriel's Revelation Addendum
Posted by Kushana Torumekia at 7/15/2008 5:03 PM and is filed under uncategorized 
Coast to Coast AM did a program on Gabriel's Revelation last night with Dr. Kenneth Hanson, a professor at the University of Central Florida. The school's webpage does not say where he earned his degree (a strange omission). There are at least three Kenneth Hansons in the profession: this Dr. Hanson has published either one (or no) articles in the field of Religion and the books Amazon lists under his name are popular ... and a bit woo-woo.
This is a very strange choice in a field where one's career depends on technical publications — and it gives me little basis for judging whether Dr. Hanson is someone I would turn to in trying to understand a discovery like this stone tablet. That said, I caught only a few minutes of the question-and-answer session (not the main program) and Dr. Hanson's answers were gracious and poised.
(I do have to object to a bit of self-promotion on his website. He bills himself: "one of the world's foremost experts on non-canonical Christian texts". No, that would be Dr. James Charlesworth or Dr. Robert McL. Wilson — or one of the half-dozen other names that come immediately to mind with an arm's length of publications for specialists in that very difficult field.)
-Kushana
This is a very strange choice in a field where one's career depends on technical publications — and it gives me little basis for judging whether Dr. Hanson is someone I would turn to in trying to understand a discovery like this stone tablet. That said, I caught only a few minutes of the question-and-answer session (not the main program) and Dr. Hanson's answers were gracious and poised.
(I do have to object to a bit of self-promotion on his website. He bills himself: "one of the world's foremost experts on non-canonical Christian texts". No, that would be Dr. James Charlesworth or Dr. Robert McL. Wilson — or one of the half-dozen other names that come immediately to mind with an arm's length of publications for specialists in that very difficult field.)
-Kushana
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