The Politics of History

by | Aug 24, 2012 | Commentary, History, Religion

Today I want to review a book I have recently finished reading: The Mythic Past: Biblical Archaeology and the Myth of Israel. Let me introduce my subject with a quote from another recent book by Nachman Ben-Yehuda, the Israeli sociologist, who writes: “How do we...

JFK: The Debris of History

by | Aug 19, 2012 | John F. Kennedy

Over the past few days I’ve been thinking a lot about John Kennedy and what our world might have been like if he had lived. These thoughts didn’t just come out of the blue, they are the result of the fact that I have just finished reading one of the...

Truth or Lies Part 9

by | May 25, 2012 | Truth or Lies

Cont. – Procopius: Secret History, translated by Richard Atwater, (Chicago: P. Covici, 1927; New York: Covici Friede, 1927), reprinted, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1961, with indication that copyright had expired on the text of the translation....

Truth or Lies Part 8

by | May 23, 2012 | Truth or Lies

Procopius: Secret History, translated by Richard Atwater, (Chicago: P. Covici, 1927; New York: Covici Friede, 1927), reprinted, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1961, with indication that copyright had expired on the text of the translation. CONTENTS By...

Truth or Lies Part 7

by | May 20, 2012 | Truth or Lies

Historians, when writing about history, not only discuss the theoretical facts that are being proposed as the timeline, but also the means by which they arrived at their ideas. Generally, they draw their conclusions about history by reading “sources,” or...