Immanuel Velikovsky (1895–1979)

This is a book of pseudo Archaeology, drawn largely from literary references, and an example of arguing from inadequate research. While it was seen as an amusing sidelight to the pursuit of real history, it did stir interest in th period, and certainly made some money for the writer. Dr. Velikovsky, a psychiatrist became quite a well known figure due to series of highly imaginative reconstructions of the sober work done by Petrie, Murray, and later men such as Cunliffe, whose efforts seem to be far more founded in Fact. However this book and its followers did start several lively conversations in my life. Nowadays one could see his corpus becoming useful to the anti-scientific writers in the field of biblical examination.… (mais)