tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post3891985045845578265..comments2024-03-29T04:38:14.302-04:00Comments on SleuthSayers: The Left Hand of LeonardLeigh Lundinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07921276795499571578noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-34868191133911875352018-03-09T09:37:55.322-05:002018-03-09T09:37:55.322-05:00Look forward to reading your story.
My favorite r...Look forward to reading your story.<br /><br />My favorite religious relic story is about "and this is the skull of St John the Baptist as a child". Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02420063310271845271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-19849374336293939792018-03-04T21:05:46.695-05:002018-03-04T21:05:46.695-05:00As usual, I enjoyed your story, RT.
I found the t...As usual, I enjoyed your story, RT.<br /><br />I found the tall windows fascinating in Sainte Chapelle. In panels like cartoon strips, one side of the chapel's windows tells the Biblical story of Christ and the second half tells of obtaining the relics for the chapel. It's beautiful.Leigh Lundinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07921276795499571578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-19294763845157657112018-03-04T20:47:32.288-05:002018-03-04T20:47:32.288-05:00Strange.
Third time I put up a comment on a post a...Strange.<br />Third time I put up a comment on a post and it disappeared.<br />Put one up on this post earlier.<br />Good post, RT. Look forward to readihg your story.<br />O'Neil De Nouxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03142721824657611738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-21844263978073484462018-03-04T18:26:37.538-05:002018-03-04T18:26:37.538-05:00R.T., thanks for the background on a very good sto...R.T., thanks for the background on a very good story. I think I have been inspired to write a blog about unreliable narrators, with your story as the hook.<br /><br />As for the idea of a "carpenter's cup," it reminds me of the greatest forgery trial in the history of Israel, involving the "James the Brother of Jesus" ossuary. https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-artifacts/artifacts-and-the-bible/is-the-brother-of-jesus-inscription-on-the-james-ossuary-a-forgery/ <br /><br />Jodi Magness is a great archaeologist and an acquaintance of mine. She once lectured about the ossuary, saying it was definitely not the bone box of the biblical James. She said, in effect, I'm not an expert on ancient handwriting or patinas on stone (two of the methods used to study the box) but I know those boxes were for the wealthy and James was both poor and against the aristocracy. So he wouldn't have HAD a bone box, this one or another.Robert Loprestihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08844889305615182897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-59326643245397258922018-03-04T17:38:01.208-05:002018-03-04T17:38:01.208-05:00Eve, that's a good one on John the Baptist'...Eve, that's a good one on John the Baptist's head when he was a young man. Hadn't heard that one before. Gotta love a good con.R.T. Lawtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15523486296396710227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-80488651629640913762018-03-04T17:36:43.232-05:002018-03-04T17:36:43.232-05:00Paul & Janice, thanks. I hope the story lives ...Paul & Janice, thanks. I hope the story lives up to your expectations.R.T. Lawtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15523486296396710227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-20360902008904434412018-03-04T14:42:23.159-05:002018-03-04T14:42:23.159-05:00I still like the scene at the end of Indiana Jones...I still like the scene at the end of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, where Indy looks around for the "cup of a carpenter" and picks an unadorned, simple one - and gets it right.<br /><br />As for medieval relics, there were sooo many of them. The only thing I've ever agreed with John Calvin on is when he said that there were enough fragments of the True Cross in Europe to build an ark. My personal favorite was someone, somewhere who was rumored to have the head of John the Baptist as a young man. Ba-da-da-boom!<br /><br />Looking forward to reading your story, R.T.Eve Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03015761600962360110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-48656003502301408362018-03-04T08:01:11.443-05:002018-03-04T08:01:11.443-05:00I will look forward to reading your next historica...I will look forward to reading your next historical mystery. Sounds like a good one.janice lawnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-48327850224024338242018-03-04T07:23:17.541-05:002018-03-04T07:23:17.541-05:00R.T., the trade in Passion Relics seems like somet...R.T., the trade in Passion Relics seems like something we might see on American Greed today. Nothing really changes, does it? Or I guess the thing is human nature never really changes. And your story sounds intriguing. Now I have to go find my AHMM so I can find out the end.Paul D. Markshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15466234708772287399noreply@blogger.com