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Princeton University's Elaine Pagels is about the nearest thing there is to a superstar in the realm of Christian history scholarship. It is largely through her work that many understand the early non-Orthodox Christianity that she at one point dubbed (and later un-dubbed, finding the term imprecise) the Gnostic Gospels. She breaks new ground with the debut of Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity, her collaboration with Harvard Divinity scholar Karen King about the second-century "Gospel of Judas" that was made public last year...
...very holy matrimony. Jacobovici seems surprised at the shelling he has taken on TV and in blogs. "It's what sociologists call a mobilization of bias," he says. "Certain questions cannot even be asked, and certain answers are not conceivable." Personally, I find the book too dependent on stretched scholarship and conjecture to make its title case. Yet if my vision is clouded, I don't think it's by MOB. More like OTMSBBS: one-too-many-speculative-Bible-books syndrome...
...Schlesinger’s scholarship was never distant from his politics, and for many of today’s historians his glowing portraits of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Kennedy family suffered from partisan fervor...
...that. Verba’s successor must coordinate with librarians across Harvard’s many schools and departments as well as with the University’s central administration—what Verba describes as a “political job” that also combines management and scholarship...
Finkelstein, whose works include "Beyond Chutzpah" and "The Holocaust Industry," has been accused of shoddy scholarship by many prominent academics, as well as by the very people he quotes in his books, such as historian Benny Morris. A central thesis to his work is that the Holocaust is exaggerated and exploited by American Jews for financial gain and to defend Israel, a view that a New York Times book review in August 2000 described as a "novel variation on the anti-Semitic forgery, ‘The Protocols of the Elders of Zion...