Dr. James Davila has a PhD from Harvard and is a lecturer in Early Jewish
Studies at University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Davila is an expert on
early Christianity and the origins of rabbinic Judaism at the beginning of
the Common Era. He's published many books and articles in this area.
Basically a world class expert. His CV is here:
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_sd/jrd4_pubs.html
Zeus Bhagwan (http://members.nowpublic.com/zeusbhagwan) describes himself thus:
Zeus Bhagwan is the Prophet of 21st Century and reincarnation of God Zeus,god Jupiter, god Indra in 21st Century. The discovery of Gospel of Judasand Da vinci code is a turning point in the history of the world.
OK. Who would you turn to for credible information on the recently
published gnostic Gospel of Judas?
If you are Technorati, you'd go with Zeus Bhagwan in a heartbeat.
Here's a vivid illustration of where taking blog popularity as an
indication of credibility goes astray. Below are links to blog posts about
the recently published gnostic Gospel of Judas as ranked by Technorati,
the blog search engine, in two blogs: PaleoJudaica and NowPublic.
PaleoJudaica (PaleoJudaica.blogspot.com) is the blog run by Dr. James
Davila.
News is now Public (www.nowpublic.com) is a "citizen journalism" site
where Zeus Bhagwan published a little monograph titled:
DAVINCI CODE & GOSPEL OF JUDAS SIGNALS THE DECLINE OF ORTHODOXY & ROMAN
CATHOLICISM.
The NowPublic article is cited as having the highest
authority in Technorati for the query [Gospel of Judas]. On the other hand,
some of the 61 blog articles Davila has posted on his PaleoJudaica blog
about the Gospel of Judas are considered by Technorati to have no authority
whatsoever. (The rest have 'some authority').
Technorati measures authority in terms of the number of incoming links a
blog has. "Authority is determined by the number of unique site links
that a blog has. The more unique site links a blog has to it, the better
the ranking and higher the authority of the blog."
http://www.technorati.com/help/search.html
Links to search results:
http://www.technorati.com/search/gospel%20of%20judas?from=http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com&language=n&authority=n
PaleoJudaica.blogspot.com
Rank: 18,625 (482 links from 128 blogs)
http://www.technorati.com/search/gospel%20of%20judas?from=http://www.nowpublic.com
News is Now Public
Rank: 1,675 (72,932 links from 827 blogs)
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