Here's a riddle for you: What did Akiba ben Joseph, the great rabbi of the 2nd century CE, and Robert Ingersoll, the great agnostic of the 19th century about whom I posted last week, have in common? Answer: they both thought the Song of Songs (a.k.a. "Song of Solomon") was the best book of the … [Read more...]
Agnostic Robert Ingersoll – “Here, We Should Be Friends”
A lady named Priscilla Threadgill has posted a comment to my Facebook Fan Page, that may be one of the nicest things anyone's ever said to me. "Are you using UFO as 'unidentified flying object,' " Priscilla writes, "or something further like 'universal friendship organization'? Well, … [Read more...]
“Outtakes of a UFO Investigator” – Father, Son
"Leon comes off much kinder in this episode than in the finished book." That comment appeared on my Facebook Fan Page about the first episode of Outtakes of a UFO Investigator, which I published four weeks ago as a download from this blog. It was posted by my friend Bryan Gilmer--and he ought to … [Read more...]
Love Goddess Stories – Esther, Ishtar, and the “Doe of the Dawn” (Postscript)
This is a P.S. to a three-part post, on the mythic background of Esther and the Purim story. You can read the earlier installments by clicking here, here, and here. In 114 or 113 BCE, a Jew named Dositheus showed up in Egypt, carrying with him a Greek document which he called "the Letter of … [Read more...]
Love Goddess Stories – Esther, Ishtar, and the “Doe of the Dawn” (Part 3)
This is the final installment of a three-part post. To see previous installments, click here and here. For a "P.S." to the series, click here. The snake's name was ... Sabbatai Zevi. He really did exist--in history. This "snake" is the one who, in the Zohar, bites the "Doe of the Dawn" on … [Read more...]
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