Author’s Blog
Shapira in the Netherlands – But Why?
One of the great puzzles for most researchers of the Shapira Affair is why he spent the final months of his life in the Netherlands. The basic story, oft repeated, is that after the official rejection of his manuscript strips by Christian Ginsburg, the dejected...
Lofty Hills of Moab – A Hymn by M. Lowrie Hofford 1884
Research often yields things of interest tangentially related to the investigation at hand. I was looking for 19th-century photographs of the land east of the Jordan, searching the archives of the Library of Congress, which contain a wealth of public domain images of...
Announcing The Moabite Scandal – April 2022
For immediate release from Horeb Press: The discovery of the Mesha Stele (Moabite Stone) led to an international race to find antiquities in the sands of Moab. Brave explorers ventured into Transjordan, hoping to secure the next archaeological treasure. Thanks to his...
Ginsburg’s Much-Anticipated Conclusions – 27 August 1883
On Monday, 27 August 1883, the long-awaited and much-anticipated conclusions of Dr. Christian Ginsburg appeared in the pages of The Times. That which appeared was a copy of the report that Ginsburg had given Bond on Wednesday, 22 August, the day after...
The Athenæum – The Three Installments by Dr. Ginsburg – 25 August 1883
On 25 August 1883, The Athenæum published the third and final installment of Dr. Ginsburg’s transcription and translation of the manuscript strips. The article began, “This concludes the original and the translation of the MS. as far as it was necessary for...
The Egotism of the Learned World – 23 August 1883
Seemingly hurried to make a public statement following Clermont-Ganneau’s report published in The Times on 21 August, Dr. Ginsburg turned in a report to Mr. Bond on the next day. Like Clermont-Ganneau, Ginsburg also declared that the strips were forged. The...