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...]
John Lennon, May Pang, and the UFO (2) – Reflections
(The second part of a two-part post.) So what are we to make of the story told over and over by John Lennon and his lover May Pang, always with essentially the same details, of seeing a UFO at close range over their Manhattan apartment on the evening of August 23, 1974? Tell anybody about … [Read more...]
Conspiracy Theories Revisited – The Strange Case of Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschuetz (Part 2)
(This is part 2 of a three-part post. For part 1, click here.) “I came this day to the spring of wisdom … and now I shall enlighten you with words of understanding.” This is the beginning of what may have been the most controversial Jewish book of the 18th-century. It was a book of … [Read more...]
