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383 pages of results. 211. Nine Spheres of Venusian Effects [Books] [de Grazia books]
... Hastings in 1910 wrote that "the Egyptian calendar [amounting to 365 days] appears throughout the whole of its history. However far back we may trace it, we cannot reach the moment of a change in it." ... orderly for long before then. Over the years he and his supporters put to rest this claim. No such historical record exists; there is no anomaly present. Other critics were discovering in Stonehenge and other megalithic constructions an astronomical ... at the -3500 level and could not simply have died normally and drifted to the bottom en masse. The ancient historian Josephus said that nature, in a revolution, produced "mutations in the bodies of men, in the earth ...
212. The Legends of the Jews: Volume I - Preface [Books]
... to what happened under their eyes, they drew from the fountain-head of the past. The events in the ancient history of Israel, which was not only studied, but lived over again daily, stimulated the desire to criticize it ... , shows how untenable this view is. That the one literature should have drawn from the other is precluded by historical facts. At a very early time the Synagogue disavowed the pseudepigraphic literature, which was the favorite reading matter of ... of fact, this dualism sums up the distinguishing features of Jewish Legend. More than eighteen centuries ago the Jewish historian Josephus observed that "though we be deprived of our wealth, of our cities, or of the other advantages ...
213. The Third World of Science [Books] [de Grazia books]
... and desperation that began when I courteously called Velikovsky to say goodbye. To those who know him well, the history of the next 24 hours was to be clear. He wanted to rewrite letters, call lawyers, discuss imbroglios ... Juergens, then working for McGraw-Hill as a scientific editor, and Deg and V. persuaded Stecchini to do an historical portion. Thus, all the effective resources of V. amounted to three men who could and would write about ... Warner Sizemore, a minister and graduate student of philosophy appeared on the scene at the same time. Stecchini, historian of science and unemployed professor, was already there, indulged by his wife Catherine, a star teacher of young ...
214. The Chronology of Lyres [Journals] [Aeon]
... unknown to the end of the last century- is identical with the powerful nation Media as known to Herodotus (Histories I:95). "When the Assyrians had held sway over upper Asia for five hundred and twenty years ... Hyksos and there- e.g ., at Tell Brak- as belonging to the Old-Akkadians. The former's historical beginning is set at 1700/1650 B.C .E ., whereas the latter already dominate the Ancient ... again." TELL BRAK Preconceived dates imposed on the strata of Tell Brak Author's dates based on stratigraphy and ancient historiography I Hellenism from -330 I Hellenism no gap underneath from -550 II Persian Satrapy of Assyria from -330 III Medes no ...
215. Flavius Josephus Against Apion Book 1 [Books]
... , I have therein declared how we came to inhabit this country wherein we now live. Those Antiquities contain the history of five thousand years, and are taken out of our sacred books, but are translated by me into the ... no more than do the several writers of the Athide follow one another about the Athenian affairs; nor do the historians the like, that wrote the Argolics, about the affairs of the Argives. And now what need I say ... more about particular cities and smaller places, while in the most approved writers of the expedition of the Persians, and of the actions which were therein performed, there are so great differences? Nay, Thucydides himself is accused of ...
216. Testing Rohl's Test of Time [Journals] [Aeon]
... yet be revealed as just another failed attempt to reach the elusive truths behind this obscure and important period in world history. Consider, for example: The notion that Moses led Israel's exodus from Egypt at the close of the Middle ... and Ethiopia. [11] Thus, Rohl is quick to assure us of the potential reliability of Josephus' historical information, [12] conditional upon the accuracy of the Hebrew historian's own claim to have accessed temple records at ... sack of Jerusalem by the Roman general Titus, when the data confirms his own theory. We have no problems with any of the information taken on board by Rohl, but as there is no mention of this prime identification of ...
217. Transcript of the Evening Session of the A.A.A.S. Symposium [Articles]
... only by the Astronomy Section of the A.A .A .S . but also by the Section on History and Philosophy of Science. It's for that reason that the co- organizers of the Symposium are both Professor King ... comment and Dr. Velikovsky for a reply on the subject of Dr. Huber's talk this morning, the ancient historical records. HUBER: What comment? [laughter] GOLDSMITH: You said that you had a comment. HUBER ... Oh. [laughter] I really have to answer Dr. Velikovsky's comments on my talk. And here it's really the matter of the length of the month and those intercalary months. First of all, I realize that the ...
... promised by the pharaoh. Nebuchadnezzar brought his army into Judea and besieged Jerusalem. 1 Faulkner in The Cambridge Ancient History, II, 2 (1975), p. 228. 2 Jehoiakim revolted against Nebuchadnezzar in his (Jehoiakim's ... data in the Egyptian and Hebrew sources made possible this cross checking, and that with a precision unattained by the historiography of many periods a thousand or even two thousand years closer to us. The conventional history of Egypt assumes that ... II was the Pharaoh of Oppression at the time of Moses (if the Israelites left Egypt in the days of Merneptah), or that he was the ruler of Egypt and Palestine at the time of the Judges (if the ...
219. Introduction (Immanuel Velikovsky's Jewish Science) [Books]
... in Northern Negeb. I do not know whom I have to thank for intellectual preparedness for this reconstruction of ancient history if not my late father_ (7 ) The final sentence is significant indeed in the context of the present ... modern phenomena as radium and hypnotism- had to be affirmed in the face of near-annihilation. (9 ) So the historical achievements of the Jews must be brought to the forefront of mankind's collective consciousness, and the Jews must once again ... and insights, as being due entirely to his persistent inability to understand even the most basic principles of science or historiography. If Velikovsky was wrong, and not only wrong but also uninfluential among any of the people who really count ...
... I. The Chronicler's Tale 12 II. The Figure in Finland 26 III. The Iranian Parallel 36 IV. History, Myth and Reality 43 Intermezzo: A Guide for the Perplexed 56 V. The Unfolding in India 76 VI ... story of Tell shooting the apple from the head of his son was once told of Orendel himself. That the historical (? ) Tell was not the inventor of this famous shot, or even performed it, seems rather certain ... Egyptian instrument for drilling out stone vessels, which was perhaps even cranked, but there is no unanimity among the historians of technology as to the real nature of this device. In this case and in that of the mill, ...
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