Catastrophism: Man, Myth and Mayhem in Ancient History and the Sciences

791. From the Death of Isaac to the Exodus out of Egypt [Books]

... against their own nation. (Consult, therefore, and correct hence our ordinary copies, Exodus 1:15, 22. And, indeed, Josephus seems to have had much completer copies of the Pentateuch, or other authentic records now lost, about the birth and actions of Moses, than either our Hebrew, Samaritan, or Greek Bibles afford us, which enabled him to be so large and particular about him. (20) Of this grandfather of Sesostris, Ramestes the Great, who slew the Israelite infants, and of the inscription on his obelisk, containing, in my opinion, one of the oldest records of mankind, see Essay on the Old Test. ...

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792. Velikovsky's Sources Volume Two [Books]

... - without tracking everything back to original sources- where the 7 in' 19 ratio came from, but by the same token we don't know where the solar prodigy and its vermin came from either. Likewise, we don't know whether UL and Murray & Crawfurd have rationalised an extraordinary great flood or whether Hübner, firmly under the sway of bible fundamentalism and its Noachian deluge, has misinterpreted the troublesome seasonal inundations of the Canon of Yahou. Ideally, of course, we should resolve these problems by going back beyond UL, Hübner, and Murray & Crawfurd, to the original Chinese sources. V himself doesn't seem to have done this in WIC. If he had, he ...

Terms matched: 1 - Score: 8 - 26 Mar 2007 - URL: /online/pubs/books/vel-sources/source-2.htm

793. Discussion [Journals] [Aeon]

... its belief in an almighty god who can do whatever he/she/it likes. Velikovsky's fundamentalism- and I agree with Whelton that Velikovsky did have an axe to grind (although the extent to which his "hidden agenda" distorted his thinking must surely have been purely subconscious)- concerns his attempt to vindicate the historicity of the Bible and has nothing to do with any attempt to validate the God of Israel in terms of current theology. Larson asks: "In truth, can anyone honestly say that their research into the complex and intriguing subject of man's historic career on this planet is completely unbiased by a hidden agenda?" On the basis that "fools rush ...

Terms matched: 1 - Score: 8 - 30 Jul 2008 - URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0205/107disc.htm

794. From the Death of Saul to the Death of David [Books]

... , therefore, to be these very sepulchers. See the note on ch. 15. sect. 3. In the meantime, Josephus's explication of the lame, and the blind, and the maimed, as set to keep this city or citadel, seems to be the truth, and gives the best light to that history in our Bible. Mr. Ottius truly observes, (up. Hayercamp, p. 305,) that Josephus never mentions Mount Sion by that name, as taking it for an appellative, as I suppose, and not for a proper name; he still either styles it The Citadel, or The Upper City; nor do I see any ...

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795. The Legends of the Jews: Volume II - Joseph [Books]

... Back | Main Contents | Volume Contents | Forward The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg Volume II Bible Times and Characters from Joseph to the Exodus JOSEPH THE FAVORITE SON JOSEPH HATED By His BRETHREN JOSEPH CAST INTO THE PIT THE SALE JOSEPH'S THREE MASTERS JOSEPH'S COAT BROUGHT TO HIS FATHER JOSEPH THE FAVORITE SON Jacob was not exempt from the lot that falls to the share of all the pious. Whenever they expect to enjoy life in tranquillity, Satan hinders them. He appears before God, and says: "Is it not enough that the future world is set apart for the pious? What right have they to enjoy this world, besides?" After the many hardships ...

Terms matched: 1 - Score: 7 - 05 Jan 2001 - URL: /online/pubs/books/legends/vol2/onea.html

796. The Legends of the Jews: Volume II - Moses in Egypt [Books]

... Back | Main Contents | Volume Contents | Forward The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg Volume II Bible Times and Characters from Joseph to the Exodus MOSES IN EGYPT THE SUFFERING INCREASES MEASURE FOR MEASURE THE PLAGUES BROUGHT THROUGH AARON THE PLAGUES BROUGHT THROUGH MOSES THE FIRST PASSOVER THE SMITING OF THE FIRST-BORN THE REDEMPTION OF ISRAEL FROM EGYPTIAN BONDAGE THE EXODUS THE SUFFERING INCREASES Beside refusing to dismiss the children of Israel, he ordered, on the very day of Moses and Aaron's audience with him, that the people be required to deliver the prescribed tale of bricks, though the taskmasters were not as heretofore to give them straw to make brick. Another decree was, that the children of ...

Terms matched: 1 - Score: 7 - 05 Jan 2001 - URL: /online/pubs/books/legends/vol2/fourd.html

797. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]

... new translation has been made by P. K.McCarter of the University of Michigan. The text tells of a vision of Balaam and has been dated to c.700 BC. It was written in old Aramaic. It tells of remarkable reversals in the natural order of things, such as has been noted in the books of the Bible and the lamentations of Ipuwer. Thus: Sew shut the skies with your thick cloud! let there be darkness and no perpetual shining and no radiance! for now you will put seal upon the thick cloud of darkness and you will not remove it forever. For the swift has reproached the eagle, and the voice of the vultures ...

Terms matched: 1 - Score: 7 - 05 Mar 2003 - URL: /online/pubs/journals/workshop/vol0501/22monit.htm

798. The Legends of the Jews: Volume II - Moses in Egypt [Books]

... Back | Main Contents | Volume Contents | Forward The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg Volume II Bible Times and Characters from Joseph to the Exodus MOSES IN EGYPT THE FAITHFUL SHEPHERD THE BURNING THORN-BUSH THE ASCENSION OF MOSES MOSES VISITS PARADISE AND HELL MOSES DECLINES THE MISSION MOSES PUNISHED FOR HIS STUBBORNNESS THE RETURN TO EGYPT MOSES AND AARON BEFORE PHARAOH THE FAITHFUL SHEPHERD When Jethro bestowed his daughter Zipporah upon Moses as his wife, he said to his future son-in-law: "I know that thy father Jacob took his wives, the daughters of Laban, and went away with them against their father's will. Now take an oath that thou wilt not do the same unto me," ...

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799. The Stability of the Solar System: An Historical Perspective [Journals] [SIS Review]

... satellites, artificial satellites and interplanetary spacecraft as being governed almost entirely by Newton's Law of Gravitation and his three Laws of Motion. These four laws - and the Differential and Integral Calculus which he also created - are one of the cornerstones of our modern civilisation. It has been said that Western civilisation is largely based on three books: the Bible, Karl Marx's Das Capital and Isaac Newton's Principia. Newton carried out his work in the second half of the17th century and the early part of the 18th century. We all know the story of how, as a young man, a student at Cambridge, he was sent away because the University was shut down during the Great Plague ...

Terms matched: 1 - Score: 7 - 06 Mar 2003 - URL: /online/pubs/journals/review/v0601to3/66solar.htm

800. The Legends of the Jews: Volume II - Moses in Egypt [Books]

... Back | Main Contents | Volume Contents | Forward The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg Volume II Bible Times and Characters from Joseph to the Exodus MOSES IN EGYPT THE INFANCY OF MOSES MOSES RESCUED BY GABRIEL THE YOUTH OF MOSES THE FLIGHT THE KING OF ETHIOPIA JETHRO MOSES MARRIES ZIPPORAH A BLOODY REMEDY THE INFANCY OF MOSES For two years the child rescued by Pharaoh's daughter stayed with his parents and kindred. They gave him various names. His father called him Heber, because it was for this child's sake that he had been "reunited" with his wife. His mother's name for him was Jekuthiel, "because," she said, "I set my hope upon ...

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