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I would thank you kindly for your gracious response, Reverend, but I prefer to thank you more particularly for the quality of your response, which is its own form of praise; I may not deserve it, but I'll accept it all the same. Issues of identity and power are incredibly complex, and sometimes I th...

Agreed!!!!! And your avatars of my great-aunts are always appreciated. :D Vivant Parowanianae. In his paper, published in the journal Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (The Journal for Old Testament Research), Dershowitz responds to some of the epigraphers’ objections. He offers mi...

Welcome back, dear Symmachus!! Thank you, Dr Moore. You are most kind. Thanks. I'm in love with this bit: "... Hussey became impetuous and ejaculated, "Egad! I'll see the critter, live or die!"" It appears from googling that a tile-brick is just a brick of some sort, by the way. - Doc :lol: :lol: R...

Thank you for sharing your learned opinion, dear consul. It has familiar themes and wonderfully learned comment. I disagree with almost the whole of it, but it was a pleasure to read. You are too kind, as ever, and I think I disagree myself, noble Reverend, with myself, particularly in my airy spec...

I am gratified that the noble Reverend has taken the time to respond in kind to my rather off-topic impressions of the Rollston blogpost. In general, I am in agreement, but I'm approaching it as someone who is interested in these kinds of topics but who is not familiar with this particular issue. I ...

The comparison is a risky one to make. That said, I am inclined to agree with DCP, although I remain somewhat uncertain about the closeness of the similarity. I would say the two hatreds are alike, but one goes back much further in time and is more deeply culturally ingrained. The horrors visited o...

The Book of Mormon is a text without a corresponding artifact, purportedly written in a language that is completely unknown to everyone , whose production and proliferation can only be traced back to the first half of the 19th century. That is at present the state of things, but my researches into ...