The Proof-for-Faith Industry: At the Limits of
Science and the Borders of Belief

>Author and journalist Nina Burleigh talks about the con-men, archaeologists, secular scholars, religious believers, hype-masters, billionaire collectors, and eccentrics she encountered while researching her book “Unholy Business: A True Tale of Faith, Greed and Forgery in the Holy Land,” on a notorious biblical archaeology forgery trial underway in Jerusalem.

Nina Burleigh is the author of four critically acclaimed nonfiction books. Her latest, Unholy Business: A True Tale of Faith, Greed and Forgery in the Holy Land (Collins 2008), tells the story of the unraveling of a Bible relic forgery scheme in Israel, and the intriguing world of biblical archaeology and relic collectors.

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