Thursday, November 4, 2010

Changes to My Previous Posts. Dead Sea Scrolls Trial of Raphael Golb



Frederick Seidel's poetry collection
"Ooga-Booga" won the 2006 
Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Raphael Golb testified that
he was the inspiration 
for the name 'Jonathan Seidel'

If you occasionally revisit my older posts, you will find changes almost every time you return. Changes both large and small.


Frequently I think of an improved way to explain or expand something; of course.
But I also make changes to correct my errors- facts, information, assumptions, analyses and conclusions I feel I had gotten wrong.

An error may look like an easy trick- maybe I'm purposely misrepresenting people, to sway my audience?

However, anyone keeping track of my corrections, will see that usually I've altered my posts to improve someone's reputation; no matter who. If I misrepresent anyone, I cannot respect my own reporting.

That is why I spend time each week or two, to read over my most challenging blogs, looking for these mistakes.
Over time I come to understand certain things differently than I did at the time. Or I look something up again, and decide I misrepresented it.


Rikers Island State Penitentiary, NY
where Raphael Golb,
the son of an academic rival,
could be
sentenced to 4 years. . .

. . .for certain emails that he sent
perhaps hoping 
to "obtain a benefit"
or perhaps hoping to "annoy,"
by parodying a professor;

And email accounts he opened
-including many he never used;

And for a name he invented;

And for perhaps hoping
the professor might not get $650.
[But which the professor got.]

I am an English teacher. All my information and interpretations come from what I witnessed at the trial and read online. I took notes at the trial as best I could, and have looked for as much online as I can; but I do not always understand the nuances in law, or scholarship. If you see errors, please drop me a line.