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 perceive our culture? How do we understand ourselves as beings in […]
Israel’s leading historian on the topic, Benny Morris, although having done more than anyone else to clarify exactly what happened, nonetheless concludes that, morally, it was a good thing – just as, in his view, the “annihilation” of Native Americans was a good thing – that, legally, Palestinians have no right to return to their […]
So far in this series, I’ve focused a lot on history and science, albeit some of it of a particularly paranormal persuasion. To jog the reader’s memory, the first installment began with a discussion of prophecy and prediction and asked some questions such as: Can prophecies be true? If so, are they all true? All fake? How […]
A few years ago, when my book The Secret History of the World was published, I rashly promised that volume 2 would soon be completed and ready for publication. After all, I pretty much knew what I wanted to zoom in on – the topic of Moses and the creation of Judaism – and I already had […]
On a Russian News Site, www.strana.ru, there is a report from a Russian ex high official and specialist in Russian secret services which Ark has translated for us. It says: Andrey Kosyakov: “Sequential acts of terrorism in THE USA will be carried out by Wednesday or Thursday of next week.” By Sterkin, Philipp on 14 […]
During the Reformation era the Biblical Hebrews came to be associated with their modern co-religionists. At the same time it became popular belief among Protestant adherents that the Jews scattered in their present dispersion would be regathered in Palestine in order to prepare for the Second Coming of Christ… The Old Testament not only became […]
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