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68 pages of results. 531. The Foibles of Heretics [Books] [de Grazia books]
... hostilities. The occasion for the hostilities came, as if often does in human relations, whether personal or international, out of a situation promising well. Executive Editor of Kronos Sizemore and Deg were meeting weekly out of friendship. They ate, drank, walked and talked together for hours on end. Sizemore was enthusiastic about Deg's manuscript of Moses, and had also been reading Chaos and Creation as the proofs arrived from India. At the time, Deg and Aim had largely abandoned Manhattan and were living in a tiny apartment in Princeton, writing their books, and spending as little money as possible in order to pay for the production of Chaos and Creation in Bombay. When ...
532. Velikovsky's Challenge to the Scientific Establishment [Journals] [Pensee]
... worth knowing" (6 ). Note, however, that Velikovsky's curiosity was aroused not at all on the professional basis of objectivity in keeping with the parameters of on-going theoretical issues, but by evidence which emerged from historical accounts. In The American Behavioral Scientist, Ralph E. Juergens writes, "Reflecting upon events in the life of Moses, Velikovsky began to speculate: Was there a natural catastrophe at the time of the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt?" (7 ). And in the Yale Scientific Magazine we have this account: ". . . Velikovsky was first struck by the idea of a great catastrophe' as the explanation of some of the historical ...
533. Cuneiform Astronomical Records and Celestial Instability [Books] [de Grazia books]
... of Deucalion (the name by which the Greeks called the man who supposedly survived it and repopulated the land). Having identified the Fire of Phaeton and the Flood of Deucalion, Kugler proceeded to document that ancient chronologists had assigned specific dates to these two events, such as 610 years before the founding of Rome or the 67th year of Moses. Actually, Greek chronologists state that the period for which we have certain dates begins with this event. They date as contemporary the Flood of Deucalion or Ogyges in Greece, the Fire of Phaeton in Africa, and the Plagues of Egypt. Kugler left out of his account of the ancient information the detail that the foundation of Athens ...
534. The British Connection [Books] [de Grazia books]
... every regard save its price and lack of telephone, of which the latter was the more serious. Hotel prices were prohibitive. Food was expensive and as always bad, except in the oriental and European restaurants. Luckily down the street was the Baeck Hebrew center, school and library, tended over by Hyam Maccoby who took to reading Deg's Moses manuscript while Deg stuck heavy coins in unending numbers into the hallway telephone. For, on the aforesaid phone list were all those he wished he might see: Geoffrey Gammon, Malcolm Lowery, Brian Moore, Peter Warlow, Harold Tresman, John Bimson, Martin Sieff, Eric Crew, Robert Temple, Fred Freeman, Redmond Mullin. ...
535. Cheers and Hisses [Books] [de Grazia books]
... . I particularly admire the way you did not go into the controversy of the correctness of Velikovsky's theories, leaving that to the specialists concerned. Your editorial statement of the issues involving the mores of both the physical scientists and the social scientists as scientists in accepting and sifting new scientific work is a skillfully done job. On the humanities side Mose Hadas, Horace Kallen, William T. Couch, Jacques Barzun, William Sloane and August Heckscher wrote Deg supportively. Medicine, social work, psychiatry, and law were among the fields of applied science reporting interest and conveying congratulations. Several ABS readers arranged meetings for Dr. V. at their campuses. Articles based on the ABS ...
536. On The Symposium Trail [Journals] [Pensee]
... primarily concerned- the Bible- poses great difficulties. "Scholars have wrestled with the problem of the composite character of the Pentateuch since the 17th century, and they are still blocked from a solution because the sources do not explicitly tell us what we desperately need to know: the process by which this composite work ultimately came to be the Law of Moses." Rivkin summarized the problem: "So long as the enigma of the Pentateuch has not been dissolved, we simply do not know the factual status of any item recorded in Genesis, or Exodus, or Numbers. There were no limits, as far as we can determine, which restricted the fictionalizing bent, for example, ...
537. The Organization of the Solar System [Journals] [Aeon]
... , the earliest mention of a theme or doctrine is considered to establish its character for all subsequent occasions. Since the first chapter of the Bible, as the books are organized (Genesis), contains the Six Days of Creation, that has been taken as their format without exception. However, the Six Days of Creation as written by Moses is not the earliest discussion of the topic of Creation. Some 270 years earlier, The Lord spoke to Job (out of a whirlwind) on the majestic subject of creation, chapters 38 and 39. On that occasion, creation was discussed in three general ways, astronomical, biological, and climatological. The following is a sample ...
538. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... say that these concepts originated in the remote past and that their development was fashioned by man's understanding of his environment as he progressed through history. Furthermore, it is a matter of historical record that ancient man worshipped the heavenly bodies as gods; even the Hebrews believed that their God was directly responsible for the Exodus event, and even if Moses was progressing towards a superior concept of God, it is evident that this was not shared by Aaron and company when they fashioned the golden calf. According to the Velikovskian scenario, we know that the golden calf was made in the image of the comet Venus which was responsible for the events of that time. What I am primarily ...
539. New Proofs of God [Books] [de Grazia books]
... . We know nothing about any species that has the equivalent of schizotypicality and what this affords us. We can conjecture how many species in all the universe might be schizotypical or have other systems capable of performing operations that we designate as being along the parameter of the human-as-divine up to the exceedingly divine, that is, the full god. Moses and his followers claimed that Yahweh could see and punish malefactors and delinquents. The Christian religion says that God can know the minds of all persons. Paranoids will sometimes say that they can tell what all minds in a crowd are thinking and single out individual minds, too. A body containing 10 20 cells can pass a signal to ...
540. Ritual and Sacrifice [Books] [de Grazia books]
... obdurate and obsessive is the transmission of collective experience. With occasional heavy disasters and appropriate mythology, a people can behave in the ways of their remote ancestors. None can deny that some of the Israelis of today see themselves as reenacting the scenes of the Israeli conquest of Palestine of 3400 years ago. Prime Minister Begin was himself a "Moses buff" who enjoyed greatly long discussions about "those days" with other members of the "Club." Yet he appeared to all the world as a substantially secular figure, operating efficiently amidst high Twentieth Century technology. Although anti-religious in a conventional sense, but professing a racial credo claimed to be consistent with ancient Teutonic legend, ...
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