There was a chapter of the Bible that people were afraid to read, I told the little girl. I want to know why they were afraid to read it. Her name was Rebecca, and she was eight years old and the daughter of a friend and colleague of mine, a scholar of Islam who taught at a nearby university. … [Read more...]
Journal of an Eibeschuetz Translator – The Kabbalist and the Genocide (Part 4)
Start, perhaps, with Hansel and Gretel. "Start," that is, on the undertaking I promised at the end of the last segment of this post, of making Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschuetz's reading of the Bible as the secret history of God feel plausible, or at least something other than arbitrary and … [Read more...]
UFO Moon, “Miracle of the Sun” – When the Sky Turns Strange
"He says the sun came out last night. He says it sang to him." --"Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977) Of course it wasn't really the sun. The sun, considered as an astronomical body, doesn't do that kind of thing. So when the nodding, grinning, half-crazy old man announces at the end … [Read more...]
Joel Achenbach, Carl Sagan, and the UFOlogists
Joel Achenbach. Captured by Aliens: The Search for Life and Truth in a Very Large Universe. Simon & Schuster, 1999. "The temptation, for those of us who have not scared the door of a church in a long time, is to give the topic of religion a wide berth. The truth is that many of us are not … [Read more...]
The Roswell Bookshelf – “UFO Crash at Roswell: The Genesis of a Modern Myth” (Part 2)
Benson Saler, Charles A. Ziegler, and Charles B. Moore. UFO Crash at Roswell: The Genesis of a Modern Myth. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997. (For the first part of this post, click here.) “The Greeks believed the gods were immortal,” I wrote in a guest blog … [Read more...]
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