Word: eyewitnesser
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Exciting stuff but almost certainly fictional. Traill, who has studied Schliemann for nearly 20 years, first became skeptical of the archaeologist's veracity in 1978, when he found an eyewitness account Schliemann wrote about a San Francisco fire. Schliemann lived in California in the early 1850s, amassing a fortune as...
Specialists had long assumed that the Magdalen Papyrus was written sometime in the mid-to-late 2nd century A.D. Now, however, German papyrologist Carsten Peter Thiede has startled the rarefied world of biblical scholarship by arguing that the papyruses are actually the oldest extant fragments of the New Testament, dating...
Amplifying a learned article that he published in 1995, Thiede has marshaled his arguments in a new book called Eyewitness to Jesus (Doubleday; 206 pages; $23.95), written with Matthew d'Ancona, a deputy editor and political columnist at London's Sunday Telegraph. As evidence of the fragments' early origins, Thiede...
"Am I interested in a national voice?" wonders Diller. "Probably--sure I am. But that's not what I'm trying to do. My job is to say, 'Is there a local voice? Can I be of service? Can I get you?' " He refuses to be more specific concerning how...
BELGRADE: Meeting on Monday with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights John Shattuck made it clear that the United States expects Milosevic to help resolve the war crimes issue. So far the international tribunal in The Hague has indicted 45 Serbs and seven Bosnian Croats...