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Archive for July 6th, 2008

The Wright man for Canterbury

I want to draw attention to the whole of this piece by Tom Wright on the Fulcrum site, not because I agree with all he says (I don’t) but for the courage and clarity with which he sticks to a position that will draw the ire of both / many sides. And in particular I [...]

The fascination of German Daleks

I don’t know. Here I am opining with great seriousness on those bits of life, the universe and everything on which I wish to opine, and what search term brings the visitors streaming in?
In the last twenty-four hours 131 searches landing here have been variants on “German Dalek”!
Listening to it the clip again, however, I [...]

Your latest archaeo-blockbuster: Jesus of Nazareth and the Tablets of Stone

Ben Witherington notes the “discovery” (as in publicising) of a stone tablet with Hebrew text on it. The story is reported in the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune. The latter report is both longer and more cautious.
A three-foot-tall tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew that scholars believe dates from the decades just [...]

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