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Such are the frustrations of life in the scientific minefields of biblical archaeology. Digging up the past is always a tricky business, as researchers attempt to reconstruct ancient societies from often fragmentary bits of pottery or statuary or masonry. But trying to identify artifacts from Old Testament times in the Holy Land is especially problematic. For one thing, virtually no written records survive from the times of King Solomon or earlier. The ancient Israelites, unlike many of their neighbors, evidently wrote mostly on perishable papyrus rather than durable clay...
...nothing else, the 112th playing of The Game on a rainy, almost surreal Saturday afternoon was a testament to the resiliency, pride and character of the Harvard football team...
...fact that hundreds of thousands of black men--and women--are rallying behind this pair of demagogues is a testament to the sorry state of race relations and the dearth of first-rate leadership on either side of the racial divide that have been appallingly evident in the wake of the O.J. Simpson trial. Black people are so hungry for a renewal of the struggle for racial justice that they are willing to overlook the bigotry and venality of the two poseurs who have summoned them to Washington this week. Even Jesse Jackson, who only a few months ago expressed...
Maybe if Riggs had been around to refine, edit and focus his work, it could have been an extremely powerful and attitude-changing film. If nothing else, the film is a testament to the tragedy of his death...
Satan makes few appearances in the Old Testament and never as a figure of consequence. In the Book of Job, he's an imp in God's retinue, a challenger tolerated by a confident Creator. The New Testament enlarges him. Like most religious scholars, Pagels believes the Gospels were set down in the latter half of the first century, after the defeat of the Jewish rebellion against Rome. "Wartime literature," she calls them, reflecting the divisions among Jews traumatized by the sack of Jerusalem and the destruction of their temple...