Biblical Archaeology Review

John Wilkinson, Jerusalem Pilgrims Before the Crusades (Warminster, England: Aris & Phillips, 1977), p. 85

Willard Bascom, Deep Water, Ancient Ships: The Treasure Vault of the Mediterranean (Garden City, NJ: Doubleday, 1976).

J.R. Steffy, Wooden Ship Building and the Interpretation of Shipwrecks (College Station, Texas A&M Press, 1994).

I recommend Karen L. King’s edition, The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle (Santa Rosa, CA: Polebridge Press, 2003). Accessible on line at the Gnostic Society Library Web site: http://www.gnosis.org/library/marygosp.htm.

My source for the Gospel of Philip is Bart D. Ehrman’s After the New Testament: a Reader in Early Christianity (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999). The Gnostic Society Library’s Web site includes the published Nag Hammadi texts including the Gospel of Philip: http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/gop.html.

Only over the last two centuries or so have some of the lost documents come to light, most notably at Nag Hammadi in Egypt. The book I would recommend on this subject is Bart Ehrman’s Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005).

For example, the two-day International Education and Strategy Conference for 9/11 Truth held in Chicago, June 4–5, 2006 described by Alan Feuer in The New York Times June 5, 2006.

Just try Googling “conspiracy theories.” Typical is PrisonPlanet.com.

A couple of relevant books: Daniel Pipes, Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes From (New York: The Free Press, 1997) and Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003).

Dever, What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It? p. 44.