Joey wrote:By the sites own prerequisite [sic]: "The purpose of the series is to make available to specialists and the interested public the results of research that, because of its unconventional or controversial nature, might otherwise go unpublished."
So it "only makes such controversial" topics available for specialists and the public to view. In other words I think it's fair to say that this personal website, not endorsed nor supported by any academic institution nor organization, is not any different that Sorenson and Clark getting their articles printed at FARMS (or MI)!
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Joey wrote:The only difference is that the MI won't admit up front that such articles are controversial and unconventional, so we would have to at least give Mr Mair recognition for being more honest and up front than the MI.
Of
course they're controversial and unconventional.
Who would ever deny
that?Joey wrote:So I am assuming that this is the best recognition you have found for LDS scholarly works on Book of Mormon historicity and the claimed archaeology support.
On what basis do you assume that?
I've said no such thing.
Joey wrote:If I am wrong, please provide what you believe to be the best recognition of such works other than a personal website which acknowledges up front that such works are not accepted by the profession.
And, since getting printed on Mair's site, are you aware of any professional or academic interest generated for this scholarship that has historically to date, again your words, been ignored?
If this is the best recognition of LDS scholarship in this area. I have no doubt you would agree it is still a long way from being convincing and accepted by academic and professional standards.
Incidentally, you may need to revise your knee-jerk advance-dismissal technique just a little bit for
this item and for
this item, as well as these items:
John L. Sorenson. "The Significance of an Apparent Relationship between the Ancient Near East and Mesoamerica." In
Man across the Sea: Problems of Pre-Columbian Contacts, edited by C. L. Riley, J. C. Kelley, C. W. Pennington, and R. L. Rands, 219—41. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1971.
John L. Sorenson. "A Reconsideration of Early Metal in Mesoamerica."
Katunob 9 (March 1976): 1—18.
John L. Sorenson and Carl L. Johannessen. "Biological Evidence for Pre-Columbian Transoceanic Voyages." In
Contact and Exchange in the Ancient World, edited by Victor H. Mair, 238—97. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006.
Your technique requires not only shameless dogmatism and determined ignorance but also a measure, at least, of comic agility in order for it to be entirely successful.
In the meantime, my wife and I are going out with friends tonight, so I won't be around to see your next dismissal-without-reading-it until at least tomorrow.