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The Long View: What If the Second Temple Had Survived AD 70?

A fun bit of alternative history exploring the likely impact of the survival of the Second Temple upon the religion and politics of the Middle East. What If the Second Temple Had Survived AD 70? This note takes issue with Donald Harman Akenson's recent book, "Surpassing Wonder:

The Long View: Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and the Talmuds

Textual analysis and criticism of religious texts was a real innovation in the mid-nineteenth century. However, historical criticism of the Bible and the Talmud exhibits the amusing spectacle, as work has slowly progressed, of converging on something very much like the traditional account. Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible

The Long View 2004-10-25: Halloween Activities; Bad Book; Good Movie; Bad Software

I also hated Catcher in the Rye, I was glad to find that someone else did. Halloween Activities; Bad Book; Good Movie; Bad Software Here's a conference you might want to attend this Halloween: Marseille, France (PRWEB) October 14, 2004 As are we all, no doubt, but when

The Long View: Arguing the Apocalypse: A Theory of Millennial Rhetoric

In case anyone needs help with the terminology of millennial studies, I have a glossary in my lecture notes. Arguing the Apocalypse: A Theory of Millennial Rhetoric by Stephen D. O'Leary Oxford University Press, 1994 314 Pages, US$19.95 ISBN 0-19-512125-2 The study of millennialism did not

The Long View: The Great Disappointment of 1844

John maintained the HTML for his website by hand. I also starting making webpages in the late nineties, and that was just how you did it. As such, he had indexes by topic for his major interests, for example eschatology. I debated recreating these for a long time, but I

The Long View: Altscript

I have shared John's ideas on spelling reform before, but the content doesn't seem to have migrated well through the last website architecture update. I am taking this as an opportunity to create topical indexes for John's work that will be featured in the

The Long View: Theodore Roosevelt's Letter to the Government Printing Office

Contents Introduction Theodore Roosevelt's Letter to the Government Printing Office The List The History Introduction A minor mystery attends this document. Public Printer Charles Stillings says in the Government Printing Office directive of September 4, 1906, that the spelling changes are being made pursuant to "Executive order.