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When the Stones Speak
Doran Spielman’s When the Stones Speak: The Remarkable Discovery of the City of David Is the Bible a history book? Did the stories in it (or some of the more literal-sounding ones) really happen? Or are we modern people obliged … Continue reading →
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Tagged adversaries to biblical archaeology, ancient human DNA, archaeology confirming Bible, atheism and civilization, Babylonians destroy First Temple, battle for the modern mind, Bible and archeology, Bible and existential questions, Bible and modern people, Bible as analogical, Bible as history, Bible as metaphorical, Bible as poetical, Bible as symbolic, Biblical historicity and anti-semitism, Biblical Israelites and DNA, Biblical Israelites and modern Jews, Biblical literalism, Biblical stories as factual, Biblical tales as nonfactual, Davidic monarchy, decline of the West, DNA analysis, First Temple ruins, First Temple stones, First Temple’s destruction 586 BCE, God as real vs metaphoric, God in real history, if it bleeds it leads, Israelite DNA and Jews, Jeremiah thrown in cistern, Jerusalem’s Eastern Gate, Jesus, Jesus and the press, Jesus at the King David hotel, Jesus holds a press conference, Jesus’ hypothetical return, Jesus’ return, Jewish history from ancient to contemporary, King David’s palace, modernity and skepticism, modernity vs Bible’s historicity, ongoing Jewish history, Paleo-Hebrew of Biblical times, postmodern skeptics, Satan holds a press conference, spirituality and history, the city of David, When the Stones Speak by Doron Spielman, Yehuchal and Jeremiah, Yehuchal son of Shelemiah
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Reluctant Inferences
This is the evening when I usually pen the weekly essay for “Dear Abbie: The Non-Advice Column.” Till I take pen in hand, I never know exactly what I’m going to write. Often, I don’t even know the topic! So … Continue reading →
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Tagged academic presentations, Adolf Eichmann, American common sense, American intellectual openness, American Political Science Association, anti-Jewish insults, anti-semitism, APSA, Argentina, Bettina Stangneth's Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer, bigoted words, collegial friendships, contemporary nihilism, contemporary reductionism, contemporary skepticism and cynicism, contrived writing, covert subtext, creative inspiration, creative thinkers, creatively inspired writing, deliberate ambiguity, denouncing while justifying, denying a people's value, disguised insults, divine message, duty vs convenience, Eichmann's Argentine transcripts, erasing a people, Eric Voegelin, Eric Voegelin and Jews, Eric Voegelin Society, Eric Voegelin's Order and History, Eric Voegelin's Israel and Revelation, European intellectual systems, EVS, fashionable opinions, genocide, good neighbors, good vs evil, Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, hidden message, Holocaust survivor, intellectual refinement, Jewish farmers, Jews and Judaism, know it all, losing friends, nazis in Roumania, philosophy of history, playing with evil, political science, pre-exilic post-exilic and post-Biblical Judaism, prejudicial language, pro-nazi informers, rationales for genocide, religion of Israel, Roumania, saying it and taking it back, significant coincidences, spirituality and history, strategically elusive, strategy of now you see it now you don't, stream of consciousness, theology of contempt, truthful writing, Voegelin escaping Gestapo, Voegelin targeted by nazis, Voegelin's anti-nazism, Voegelin's Vienna circle, words with consequences, world history, writing ambiguously, Yom ha Shoah
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