The Joe Zias vs. sensationalist film maker suit hits the courts:

[dimbear]

http://world.time.com/2013/01/29/a-feud-between-biblical-archaeologists-goes-to-court/

You have to love you some Joe Zias. He has a definite way with words, not to mention being a remarkably sharp guy.

[Confusious]

1. "I have never once heard of a scholar suing another scholar because their work was eviscerated."

One guy is a charlatan and the other is a scholar. The charlatan is suing the scholar.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

2. It seems to me that Jacobovici is suing Zias to shut him up.

It is also quite obvious that Zias has some quite valid criticisms of Jacobovici. Jacobovici reminds me of the dealers in spurious religious relics who ran a thriving trade in medieval Europe. It is said that there were enough relics of the True Cross to build a ship. Casanova, in his memoirs, tells of meeting a rich man who had the supposed knife that pierced Christ's side as he hung on the cross, and of making the supposed sheath for the knife to bilk the man out of money.

Jacobovici would appear to be Casanova's spiritual descendant.