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...]
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...]
J. Albert Harrill, “Paul the Apostle” — How I (Maybe) Got Paul Wrong
J. Albert Harrill. Paul the Apostle: His Life and Legacy in Their Roman Context. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. “I do not understand my own actions.” —Paul, Epistle to the Romans 7:15 I didn’t either. It was the beginning of 1970; I was 22 years old, taking a year off between … [Read more...]
“The Close Encounters Man” – Mark O’Connell on J. Allen Hynek
Mark O'Connell, The Close Encounters Man: How One Man Made the World Believe in UFOs. HarperCollins, 2017. A human life can be read as the totality of its enigmas. The questions to be asked, naturally, will differ from person to person. For J. Allen Hynek (1910-1986), the brilliant … [Read more...]
The “Book of the Dead” in Spring Hope – Catherine Woodard’s “Opening the Mouth of the Dead”
"This fall, in third grade, We live in Ancient Egypt Not North Carolina, says Mrs. Long, just back From the 1964 World's Fair in New York City. She saw a little gold coffin for a king called Tut." --Catherine Woodard, Opening the Mouth of the Dead Mrs. Long is one of the world's great … [Read more...]
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