by VorJack
Victor J. Stenger, author of works like God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows that God Does Not Exist, came out with a work last year titled The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason. In it, Stenger apparently has a section on the nonhistoricity of Jesus.
First off, he doesn’t do [...]
by VorJack
Michael Paulkner has produced this gorgeous depiction of the ancient Israelite view of the universe. You can go to his flicker stream to see it in the original size.
There’s a lot more on his photostream that’s worth looking at. James McGrath likes this depiction of the Ptolemaic Universe, but I have a [...]
I love reading things which take current historical and/or scientific knowledge and totally screw it up, and this fits the bill very nicely.
“Flint tools found in an English village show ancient humans settled northern Europe 800,000 years ago, far earlier than previously thought, which could prompt scientists to reassess the capabilities of [...]
by VorJack
Help me out here folks, because I’m not sure how I feel about this one.
A Swedish scholar named Gunnar Samuelsson has successfully defended his thesis that the Gospels do not clearly describe a crucifixion that matches later traditions.
His argument seems to hinge on the word “stauroun,” which the Gospels use in a way that [...]
by VorJack
The EU Observer reports the following:
Louis Michel, the Belgian former EU development commissioner and current prominent Liberal MEP has shocked his home nation and its one-time central African subjects by calling King Leopold II, the Congo’s colonial master responsible for between 3 million and 10 million deaths, a “visionary hero.”
“Leopold II was a true [...]
by VorJack
Hemant points to an article over at the NYT:
Craft Shop Family Buys Up Ancient Bibles for Museum
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With a goal of establishing a national Bible museum of great depth and size, the evangelical Christian family behind the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores has been spending heavily to amass a collection that has set dealers [...]
by VorJack
One of the good things about working in the museum field is that other museum folks are more willing to tell it to you straight. And so, during a tour of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, one curator told a group of us about the historic baseball that Abner Doubleday didn’t [...]
by VorJack
In his work Remembering Ahanagran, historian Richard White examines his mother’s stories of Ireland. It produced a favorite quote of mine:
I once thought of my mother’s stories as history. I thought memory was history. Then, I became a historian, and after many years I have come to realize that only careless [...]
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