Talk:Magdalen papyrus

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[edit] Comfort and dating

I think it's fine that we mention Comfort, but I don't think we should give his book undue weight. He tends to date things earlier than the established consensus, and we can't simply present a minority view like this as if it were the majority. Maybe in a few years his research will catch on and the consensus will shift, but we cannot be premature. We have to keep NPOV in mind and represent our sources (and hopefully the scholarly consensus). I think until the next NA revision comes out and recognizes (or not) Comfort's conclusions, we need to present a balance in this article. (looking at http://nttranscripts.uni-muenster.de/, they haven't grouped them together yet, but they do cite Comfort in the bibliography) -Andrew c ^[talk] 16:01, 15 July 2007 (UTC)