Jammer Wrote:
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> To play the Devil's advocate;
>
> He was for awhile the pathfinder. He was going
> where no one had before. Yes, he made laughable
> errors, assumptions of fact, assumptions in a
> void, but he still was one of the first.
>
> Sure, he had the ethics of a randy rabbit, the
> moral fiber of a used car salesman, the
> respectability of a lab rodent;
> but...
>
> what do we have today that we wouldn't had he
> never existed?
> What, for all the wrong reasons, did he preserve
> for posterity?
>
> Jammer

Jammer,
I agree with your analysis. Until coming to Maat, and seeing what "real" Oxford schollars and Egyptologists look like, I did not realize the quantity of mistakes from Budge, and the pervasiveness of his work over the internet, since it is a free source.

100 years ago, Budge's work would have been perceived better than today (still with problems, though). It seems that to obtain "Good Info" on Egypt, you get what you pay for.



Edited 5 time(s). Last edit at 08/27/2007 03:57PM by rich.