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...Crossan, Jesus' deification was akin to the worship of Augustus Caesar -- a mixture of myth, propaganda and social convention. It was simply a thing that was done in the ancient Mediterranean world. Christ's pedigree -- his virgin birth in Bethlehem of Judea, home of his reputed ancestor King David -- is retrospective mythmaking by writers who had "already decided on the transcendental importance of the adult Jesus," Crossan says. The journey to Bethlehem from Nazareth, he adds, is "pure fiction, a creation of Luke's own imagination." He speculates that Jesus may not even have been Mary's firstborn and that...
...husband for an Indian nawab. Mukherjee blatantly refers to The Great game of Kipling's Kim. Hannah's cosmic relationship with history seems suspiciously similar to Saleem's--the narrator of Midnight's Children-- linkage to Indian history. Mukherjee evens claims The Captivity Narrative of Mary Rowlandson as an ancestor to Hannah's tryst with the natives. It works, then, when Mukherjee suggests that Nathanial Hawthorne was influenced by Hannah's tale in his writing of The Scarlet Letter. Nothing seems lifted or cheap. Indeed, Mukherjee pays homage tastefully and respectfully. The interplay of literary history works well with Mukherjee...
...make the Addams Family look like the Waltons. Among them: Wilhelm's inamorata, the robotically hysterical Kathchen; her fright-wigged father Bertram; an overbearing uncle who, in a hilarious non sequitur, tells the story of how Hemingway sold the movie rights to The Snows of Kilimanjaro; and a dead ancestor in Boris Karloff makeup whose only advice to the living is, "Do what thou wilt...
Maybe answering the question would simply satisfy some kind of background check. Russians always ask me why I'm called Natasha. I used to answer that my mother just liked the name, but that was never sufficient. Now I respond immediately that my ancestors used to play violin in Odessa (one ancestor, name unknown, a long time ago); they nod, satisfied...
...along with arguments over just about every other aspect of Maya archaeology -- won't be resolved anytime soon. New discoveries are constantly reinventing the conventional wisdom. At Caracol, for example, the Chases have uncovered an unprecedented 74 relic- filled tombs; their location, in living areas, supports the idea of ancestor worship, and the number of burial chambers provides evidence, the Chases think, that the Maya had a large, prosperous "middle class...