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...cannot produce solid proof--than the plunge into alternative biblical narrative by recognized scholars. The Jesus Dynasty by James Tabor of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, who also aided Jacobovici, enmeshes a plausible story of early church strife in speculative material suggesting that Jesus had a human father and hoped for an earthly kingship. Professors and best-selling authors Elaine Pagels and Bart Ehrman both have books out claiming to derive new insights from the rediscovered Gnostic Gospel of Judas--itself a best seller. Their logic is solid, but their topic is daring...
Well, perhaps so. But like many wonderful (and not so wonderful) things, it's moving forward to a herky, sometimes unintelligible beat. The kind that makes one nostalgic for the deliberate, footnoted revolutionism of Father Brown...
...plebians. In 1840 the supporters of William Henry Harrison called him the Log Cabin and Hard Cider candidate, after his presumed abode and favorite drink. In fact, Harrison was the son of Benjamin Harrison V, a wealthy Virginia planter who had signed the Declaration of Independence. The Bushes, father and son, used Texas as a font for washing away Ivy League associations. Presidents must have simple manners too, concealing pride and other prickly emotions. Thus Dwight Eisenhower, an ambitious and brilliant general, became, in his political incarnation, smiling Ike, whom one Liked...
...Born in Columbus, Ohio on March 15, 1917, Schlesinger left the mid-west for Cambridge at the age of seven, when his father, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., also a leading American historian, joined the faculty at Harvard...
...state ban on the wearing of head scarves in educational institutions.Ka’s friend suggests an additional incentive for the trip: the beautiful and mysterious Ipek, whom Ka has always had a thing for, has separated from her husband and is helping her sister and aging father to manage the Snow Palace Hotel in Kars.As Ka travels through the dilapidated neighborhoods of Kars interviewing the families of girls who had committed suicide, he hears of lives of quiet desperation: 16-year-olds engaged to elderly men, girls subjected to verbal and physical abuse by fathers and husbands...