Kushana's Bible Question Page
A religion scholar muses on her field and recent discoveries
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Did Jesus Have A Wife?
Yesterday a friend emailed me the following news story:
The word in question is hime, a spelling variation of shime (the "s" sound is pronounced separately "s-hime".) It means "woman" or "wife" or "wave on the ocean". It is
followed "of" and the first letter of another word. The rest of the sentence has been lost but it probably modifies or comments on the word hime. (It would be nice to have
it.)
We do not have a full ...
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My Powell's Bookshelf
I have created a list at Powell's Books of some of my favorite books about the Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Gnosticism, History,
Archaeology and ancient religions. (I tried to avoid the very technical titles: if you want to find a textbook for a dead language or something else equally obscure, email me if you
just can't find it online.)
This list of books is in no particular order and it includes many items in my LibraryThing list:
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Book Review: Invisible Romans
I want to recommend the book I am currently reading, Dr. Robert Knapp's Invisible Romans
A Classics professor at UC Berkeley, Dr. Knapp
has spent his career studying the history of the Roman Empire away from its capital city. He is also a
specialist in ancient coins, ancient inscriptions, tomb stones, and graffiti. (Since there was no paper in the ancient Western world graffiti was used the way later eras would
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Ancient Astronauts
If you are interested in ancient astronauts or forbidden archaeology then I highly recommend this podcast interview with Dr. Ken Feder:
http://www.skeptic.com/podcasts/monstertalk/11/07/27/
-Kushana
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Did the Gnostics Care About Christ?
A central interest in the death of Christ was not universal even among the branches of early Christianity
(see Dr. Bart Ehman's <a href='http://www.powells.com/partner/36168/biblio/9780195182491?p_ti' title='More info about this book at powells.com' rel='powells-9780195182491'>Lost
Christianities</a> for a glimpse of that world): only the types of Christianity which won out sociologically and politically to become the ancestors of all contemporary forms
of Christianity put together the idea of atonement in quite the ...
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The Good News Bible and Remembering Dr. Nida
An important and influential Biblical scholar and translator died this past week. From the New York Times obituary for Dr. Eugene Nida:
<< MORE >>Widely considered the father of modern Bible translation, Mr. Nida (pronounced NYE-duh) was for four decades the head of the Bible society’s translation program .... Previously, most Bible translations had been done by Western missionaries, ...
Did Irenaeus Know What He Was Talking About?
A reader named Bill writes in and asks about the names Irenaeus uses in Chapter 1 of Against Heresies:
They maintain, then, that in the invisible and ineffable heights above there exists a certain perfect, pre-existent whom they call Proarche, Propator, and Bythus, and describe as being invisible and incomprehensible. Eternal and unbegotten, he remained throughout innumerable ...<< MORE >>
Robot Reveals Hidden Giza Pyramid Hieroglyphs
The images revealed hieroglyphs
written in red paint that have not been seen by human eyes since the construction of the pyramid. The pictures also unveiled new details about two puzzling copper pins embedded in one of the so
called "secret doors."
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Worried About Judgement Day?
Don't be. I cannot replace a member of the clergy but I can tell you the end of the world has been fixed (and passed by) many times
before:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrl2.htm
The human beings who are so fond of predicting this date seem to have forgotten Matthew 24:36:
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http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrl2.htm
The human beings who are so fond of predicting this date seem to have forgotten Matthew 24:36:
"But of that day and hour no one knows, not even ... << MORE >>
Women and College: Let's Do Better
More younger women have college degrees than their male counterparts:
(However, this varies greatly by ethnic group and does not hold true for everyone over the age of
25.)
My question is why isn't this percentage larger? Women under 25 only
outstrip ...
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