How an Unorthodox Scholar Uses Technology to Expose Biblical Forgeries
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Photo caption: A copy of a Greek inscription, made by laying wet paper or plaster over carved stone to create a mirror-image impression. Photo credit: Franck Ferville. Article by Chanan Tigay. Smithsonian Magazine – January / February 2023.
If you spotted Michael Langlois walking along the Seine, in Paris, as I did one overcast morning last spring, you could be forgiven for mistaking this scholar of the ancient Middle East for the bassist in Def Leppard. He wears his long brown hair in a leonine mane, and when I caught up with him on the Pont des Arts he was sporting a pink sweater and salmon-colored pants. As it turns out, […]
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