“ ‘Giants’ keep cropping up in all parts of the globe: in the mythology of East and West, in the sagas of Tiahuanaco and the epics of the Eskimos. ‘Giants’ haunt the pages of almost all ancient books. So they must have existed.” —Erich von Däniken, Chariots of the Gods “There aren’t any such … [Read more...]
“Chariots of the Gods?” – Erich von Däniken and the Book of Enoch
I didn’t get a chance to tell Erich von Däniken, when he and I were guests together last week on Gene Steinberg’s “The Paracast” radio show, that the first time I read his Chariots of the Gods? it was in Hebrew. This was in the summer of 1978, nine years after Chariots was first published. I was … [Read more...]
“The Shadow of the Unknown” – A Tale of Teen UFOlogy
A way to meet girls, it wasn’t. The world of teen UFOlogy in the early 1960s, to which I belonged, was with a very few exceptions a world of teenage boys. At times I regretted this, but accepted it as inevitable. “This is the most important unsolved mystery in the world today,” my senior … [Read more...]
Teaching the New Testament – A Jewish Professor Looks Back
In the spring of 1992, I taught a lecture course on "Introduction to New Testament" at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, to a class of 300. By the end of the drop-add period the enrollment was down to 263. This was normal attrition, and had nothing--or, probably, mostly nothing--to … [Read more...]
A “Secret UFO Office” in the Pentagon? – What Just Happened In the Media
"Something is happening here but you don't know what it is, Do you, Mr. Jones?" --Bob Dylan I got my first inkling that something was happening on the afternoon of Sunday, December 17, when I checked my emails and saw that two friends had, independent of each other, sent me links to a pair of … [Read more...]
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