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114 pages of results. 521. Book Review [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... old favourite of the extraterrestrial lobby, and perhaps justly so. Sitchin points out that the meaning of Nefilim, the product of this union, could be "those who were cast down" rather than the conventional interpretation of "giants". Certainly some belief in "other beings" is indicated, and here, if anywhere in the Bible, could be a reference to extraterrestrials. The Twelfth Planet represents some 30 years of mulling over the identity of the Nefilim, who captured Sitchin's imagination in childhood. Anyone prepared to work his way through the anthropological literature making a comparative study of concepts similar to the Biblical Nefilim would undoubtedly find the task rewarding. Sitchin, however, ...
522. Focus [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... - that both Venus and Mars would be found to radiate more heat than they receive from the sun... Venus has an oxygen-rich atmosphere". (Surely it was that Velikovsky said if oxygen was present in the atmosphere of Venus it would be consumed in petroleum fires?) The truth, we are told, is that the Bible does report garbled reports of genuine disasters (the Santorini volcano is provided as the example here, linked with the Atlantis story and "some Biblical stories"). We are told that "the attempt by some scientists 30 years ago to suppress Velikovsky's book was disgraceful", that "the refusal to offer a reasoned response to Velikovsky ...
523. A Chart to Illustrate the Conquest of Canaan [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . Discussing this fact, Aharoni makes the following significant remarks: "We therefore arrive at a most startling conclusion: the biblical traditions associated with the Negeb battles cannot represent historical sources from the days of Moses and Joshua, since nowhere in the Negeb are there any remains of the Late Bronze Age. However, the reality described in the Bible corresponds exactly to the situation during the Middle Bronze Age, when two tels, and two tels only, defended the eastern Negeb against the desert marauders, and the evidence points towards the identification of these tels with the ancient cities of Arad and Hormah. Thus the biblical tradition preserves a faithful description of the geographical-historical situation as it was ...
524. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... connection with David's hero, Benaiah, he might have served in the army of the Philistines or any other enemy of David. Samuel did not "cut Agog to pieces"; he did exactly what was the rule in such cases: he decapitated him. Mr Whelton, certainly, is an honourable man. Let him speculate about the Bible as much as he likes in the privacy of his home. To print such speculations which have no shadow of a shadow in the clear Hebrew text in a publication which wants to be taken seriously, is beyond me. Now let us consider Mr B. O'Gheoghan's letter concerning Jupiter and Abraham (Vol.3 , No.1 ...
525. Modern Origins of Flat Earth Theory [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... was cultivated throughout the 19th century, particularly gaining ground from 1870-1920 during the evolution debate. It even became a key thesis of Boorstin's popular book The Discoverers, published as recently as 1983. There is actually little evidence of flat-earth thinking prior to the Enlightenment and much showing its sphericity was known. St. Augustine (400's) observed the Bible gives no description on the shape of the earth, thus was an irrelevant subject. Other church figures came down firmly on the side of sphericity, as did Bede (700's) Neither Columbus or his contemporaries thought the world was flat. Scientific revolutionaries, such as Copernicus, Galileo and Campanella seemed not to consider it something that needed ...
526. Contents: Ages in Chaos by Immanuel Velikovsky [Books]
... (161). Sosenk (Shoshenk) (164). Summary (166). Chapter Five: Ras Shamra The timetable of Minoan and Mycenaean culture (171). Sepulchral chambers (174). Greek elements in the writings of Ras Shamra (175). Hebrew elements. Two cities and two epochs compared (177). Bible criticism and the documents of Ras Shamra (182). Troglodytes or Carians? (184) The Carian language (189). Amenhotep II (191). The Poem of Keret (196). The end of Ugait (203). Retarded echoes (205). Chapter Six: The El-Amarna Letters The el-Amarna letters and ...
527. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Christians". Presumably the theologians he cites are supposed to be "thinking atheists". As anybody who has read them will know, thinking is the last thing the authors of these turgid, rambling, incoherent, unbelievable theologies are notable for. Rather, they assert dogmatically that no one can possibly believe in God, religion or the Bible unless he is a drooling cretin, and then goes on to build on this "sound basis". The "death-of-God" movement, in fact, consisted of a small group of radicals symbolically killing off their Oedipal father-figure in print; it had nothing to do with religion and rather more with psychopathology. Having cited these "authorities ...
528. Society News [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... of the Late Hittite Empire were identical with the Chaldean kings of the Neo-Babylonian Empire (625-539 BC). These arguments had been usefully summarised by Derek Shelley-Pearce as a basis for this discussion. The main planks of Velikovsky's argument were the similarity between the campaigns waged by Ramesses II in Palestine in the 13th Century BC and those attributed in the Bible and the annals of Nebuchadrezzar II to the 26th Dynasty Pharaoh Necho II; the specific parallels between the battles of Kadesh and Carchemish; the similarities between the careers of the Hittite Hattusilis III and the Babylonian Nebuchadrezzar II; the archaeological and linguistic problems associated with the discovery in Byblos of the tomb of Ahiram; and the relationship between archaeology ...
529. Royal Incest [Books] [de Grazia books]
... .. They suppressed his books." "What do you mean, suppressed his books ?" "They smeared him." "Like Reich? Like Semmelweis?" "Yes." "What does he do?" "He lives here. He writes." "About what?" "Mythology, astronomy, the Bible, ancient catastrophes." "What does he live on?" "His books. They are very well sold." "That's not our topic." "No. The ABS could take up the sociological side. It's rich." Deg was skeptical. Although his American Behavioral Scientist would stop at nothing, every scientist ...
530. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... mostly based on the findings of German scholars? a) E. J. Sweeney: Abraham in Egypt There is plentiful evidence, typified by John van Seters[1 ], to show that the entire material concerning Abraham was added only after the return from the Babylonian exile to the body of Jewish legends that we now describe as the Bible. As early as the beginning of this century it was in fact shown that Abraham was not a real person. Eduard Meyer[2 ] wrote in 1906 that Abraham and Sarai were a typical couple of Middle Eastern divinities, like Ishtar-Tammuz, Inanna-umuzi, Aphrodite-Dionysos, etc. Many other authors elaborated on this theme, such as G ...
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