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182 pages of results. 591. Forum [Journals] [SIS Review]
... it does seem unfair to level this criticism at Velikovsky's work. In work of this nature, only a fool would not choose suitable sources. Because of the corruption which has polluted these texts - and Grant describes well the ambiguity which results - it is absolutely imperative that an interpretive approach be utilised. The word "myth" means "tradition or story with a veiled meaning", and I cannot see that anyone will find it unacceptable if an attempt is made to unveil that meaning; and, in the best academic tradition, Velikovsky's method was consistent regardless of the country or culture from which the tradition emanated. Perhaps what offends some academics is the fact that Velikovksy's cosmogony ...
592. I.Q.: A University Program [Books] [de Grazia books]
... other problem areas of science: ethics and rules of science. Q5. The Catastrophic Origins of Human Nature. Evolutional and quantavolutional possibilities in the rise of mankind; effects of primeval experiences upon human nature, culture and modern man: Jung, Freud and racial memories. Q6. The Bible and the Catastrophic Record. A review of ancient traditions of Exodus and the Books of Moses; influences of disasters upon Judaic-Christian-Muslim thought and practice. Q7. Catastrophism in Literature: From the Vedas to Joyce. The Hindu, Biblical (Psalms. Job, etc.), Homeric writings reinterpreted. Hesiod, Ovid, Shakespeare et al. Q8. Catastrophes. Science Fiction and the Arts ...
593. The Hyksos and the Archaeology of Palestine [Journals] [SIS Review]
... BC) is too high by over a century. At the end of the Middle Bronze Age almost all the major MB II C cities in Palestine were violently destroyed. I argued that these destructions were the work of the Israelites under Joshua, as recounted in the Old Testament (Josh. l-11). The implication of the Old Testament traditions is that the Exodus occurred in the middle decades of the 15th century BC, and that the Conquest began about a generation later (I Kings 6:1 ; Judg. 11:26; Num. 14:28-33). I therefore date the Conquest, and hence the fall of the MB II C cities, to the ...
594. Catastrophism and the Compulsion to Meaning [Articles]
... should justify the rest. We should not delude ourselves about the universality of these categories. Meaning is created by a kind of discourse which lacks the universal intelligibility of scientific expression, even though it is more essential to the dignity of human existence. This is only to say that meaning occurs within a specific language and is shaped by the traditions of discourse within that language In the West, we are used to a plurality of languages attending to each other, and also to a constant renewal of discourse with the ancient languages of those cultures by which the tradition as a whole was initiated. Nevertheless, any meaning that results is, initially at least, a meaning for the ...
595. The Blazing Star, Part 1 Venus Ch.8 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... as the Evening Star, which is the same as the Morning Star.(30) The birth of the Morning Star, or the transformation of a legendary person (Istehar, Phaėthon, Quetzal-cohuatl) into the Morning Star was a widespread motif in the folklore of the oriental(31) and occidental(32) peoples. The Tahitian tradition of the birth of the Morning Star is narrated on the Society Island in the Pacific;(33) the Mangaian legend says that with the birth of a new star, the earth was battered by countless fragments.(34) The Buriats, Kirghiz, and Yakuts of Siberia, and the Eskimos of North America also tell of ...
596. Habiru and Hebrew [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of I Samuel preserved verbatim accounts of Philistine (i .e . generally enemy) speeches consistently every time, without translating key words into the writers' tongue or dialect - even when these terms were derogatory to the Israelite heroes or their followers. Since the Deuteronomist [11] compiled his history from a combination of royal annals, oral traditions and religious preconceptions about what ought to have happened; and since he wrote at the time of King Josiah at the earliest (four centuries after Saul); and since even the unalterable Pentateuch was not in its final form at that date... the assumption is very strained. Also, it is precisely in those cases where ...
597. The Amarna Coregency Controversy [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... fact dead at this stage and viewing the scene from the afterlife. However, the more natural interpretation is that he was still alive. The chapel of A3's vizier provides additional pro-coregency support. The chapel was not finished but many of the relief work (of high quality) is complete. One of the back wall areas is in pure traditional style, with the exception of head shapes that more closely resemble the Amarna style. The vizier is attested only at the time of the 1st jubilee (A3 year 30), but A4 is shown making offerings to the gods. This would put him of an age where a coregency seems required to avoid too great an age at ...
598. A further synchronism between Palestine and Egypt [Journals] [SIS Review]
... this era look improbable; the dates themselves are the BC equivalents of the JDN numbers cited on p. 20 of C&CR XV). 729BC lies shortly before the end of Ahaz's reign and shortly after the accession of Hoshea. Velikovsky (WinC, n. 4, p. 226, abacus Edition) incidentally cited a Jewish tradition that the movement of Ahaz's dial occurred on the day of his burial; if so, the movement of Azakiah's dial would have occurred in year 17 of his reign. 7. There are currently three ways of arriving at this date, none of them very precise, as follows: (a ) Date the death of Jehoahaz on ...
599. Stargazers & Gravediggers by Immanuel Velikovsky [Journals] [Kronos]
... he, rather than another, should have been the one to stumble onto such a discovery. A clue is found in Eric Larrabee's introduction: "He gave a strong sense of relating to the European academic environment, which is less rigid and formalistic than the American in certain ways" (p . 17). Indeed, the European tradition, especially earlier in the century, was quite deductive in style, while the American is highly inductive. In the deductive approach one formulates an hypothesis (which must be right, by the way), then searches high and low for evidence to back it, minimizing the objections one encounters along the way. If the total structure ...
600. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... cattle as well as sheep and goats were typical of the EB.MB economy" (EB.MB = c. 2350 - 1900 BC). Kenyon herself wishes to date the Patriarchal period as late as the 17th - 16th centuries BC, because, she says, "I would prefer to reduce the length of period in which traditions had survived"; she admits that such a date is "unbacked by any form of scientific support" (p . 10). Later (p . 23) Kenyon says of the Patriarchal stories: "The great interval in time before they were put in writing makes it certain[!] that they do not constitute an ...
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