Publishing scholarship in a language one cannot read is intellectually indefensible.
Evidence
What would we think of a scholar who understood no Hebrew yet wrote voluminously on the historical character of Moses and the Hebrew Bible; or who knew no Aramaic yet wrote a biography of Jesus; or who knew no Sanskrit yet issued two volumes on the Bhagavad-Gita? — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 464
Categorization
- CANDY: The rhetorical reductio is vivid and funny — a neat way to expose credential-bypassing in polemical publishing.