I'm not a rabbi, but with my beard I'm often mistaken for one. Especially for one particular rabbi, who lives in my town and who everybody thinks looks just like me. (He and I happened to be in a checkout line together a few weeks ago, and they asked if we were brothers. We aren't.) I'm not … [Read more...]
Immanuel Velikovsky – “Worlds in Collision,” 68 Years Later
An ancient visit by an alien star, runs the headline in the Health & Science section of The Week magazine (April 13, 2018); and the story begins: "A wandering binary star sideswiped the solar system some 70,000 years ago, knocking dozens of far-flung comets and asteroids into unusual orbits. … [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...]
Books That Horrify – Ezekiel, “1984,” “The Island of Dr. Moreau”
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...]
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