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A gold wedding belt depicting Jesus alongside pagan gods is just one of many artifacts on display at the nation’s first exhibit to examine the lives of Byzantine women, currently up at the Sackler Museum.
Although the Evening With Champions attracts high-powered stars, not all of the skating gods sleep on the mattresses of mere Harvard mortals. Nancy Kerrigan stayed elsewhere. So did Paul Wylie ’90, who apparently had enough of Eliot House after three years spent there as a student...
In his book, Pakenham skims over the botanical minutiae and delights instead in the history and folklore that grow like thick vines around his chosen trees. For him trees are best classified by personality type: gods and goddesses, grizzlies, dwarfs, aliens and ghosts. Some are already famous, such as California...
That is the story. What is its importance? Despite every effort and argument, there is no way to know what century Abraham lived in, or even whether he actually existed as a person. (If he did live, it would have been between 2100 B.C. and 1500 B.C., hundreds of years...
The implications of his breakthrough arealmost infinite. To have "one God that counts" instead of a constellation of gods who require occasional ritual appeasement, as Cahill notes in The Gifts of the Jews, means that Abraham's relationship to God "became the matrix of his life," as it would be...