J. Huston McCulloch was a professor of economics and finance at Ohio State University who maintained this detailed reference page on the Newark, Ohio Decalogue Stone and Keystone as a personal scholarly project outside his own academic field, drawing on his own study of the inscriptions and their history since their 1860 discovery. Its strength is genuine care and detail, a careful review of the objects, their Hebrew inscriptions and the case for and against authenticity, published on an Ohio State University faculty page rather than a self published fringe site. Its limit is that McCulloch was not a professional epigrapher or archaeologist and that mainstream archaeological opinion, including Ohio History Connection's own published analysis, treats the stones as a nineteenth century forgery, a conclusion this page itself does not fully share. Cite it as a detailed and transparent minority argument, not as the settled archaeological verdict.
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J. Huston McCulloch's reference page on the Newark, Ohio Decalogue Stone and Keystone, published on an Ohio State University faculty page, the middle tier reflecting genuine care and detail from a named scholar, notwithstanding that McCulloch was not a professional epigrapher or archaeologist and mainstream archaeological opinion treats the stones as a nineteenth century forgery, a conclusion this page itself does not fully share. NotesDetailed reference page reviewing the discovery, the inscriptions, and the forgery arguments.
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AuthorJ. Huston McCulloch
PublisherOhio State University
Publication Year2010
URLhttps://www.asc.ohio-state.edu/mcculloch.2/arch/decalog.html
Source Typereference
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