blondie: he's not the one I meant.
The guy I meant (the JW composer, musician) is Japanese, his name is Tori Kudo. A pic here:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2420/2524696160_4f9747cb56_o.jpg
Maher Shalal Hash Baz is his heteronym.
http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/music/83566/maher-shalal-hash-baz-at-the-new-museum-concert-preview.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/maher_shalal_hash_baz.
blondie: he's not the one I meant.
The guy I meant (the JW composer, musician) is Japanese, his name is Tori Kudo. A pic here:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2420/2524696160_4f9747cb56_o.jpg
Maher Shalal Hash Baz is his heteronym.
http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/music/83566/maher-shalal-hash-baz-at-the-new-museum-concert-preview.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/maher_shalal_hash_baz.
Here you can listen to one of his song (Bible based: "What's Your Business Here Elijah"?)
another one (live!) here:
http://vslam.com/music/2007/03/mshb-faux-depart-live.mp3
... weird stuff!
one of mine:.
http://www.amazon.com/girl-dragon-tattoo-stieg-larsson/dp/0307269752.
Black Sheep & four candles: I'm going to get the books you mentioned
zoiks: read that book. Very interesting stuff.
One more of my own unputdownables:
http://www.amazon.com/As-God-Commands-Niccolo-Ammaniti/dp/0802170676
Maybe little known in the USA, but try this.
http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/music/83566/maher-shalal-hash-baz-at-the-new-museum-concert-preview.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/maher_shalal_hash_baz.
one of mine:.
http://www.amazon.com/girl-dragon-tattoo-stieg-larsson/dp/0307269752.
http://www.indystar.com/article/20100303/local18/3030407/fire-destroys-home-while-family-attends-church.
guess how long will it take for the story to make the rounds of the jws community, as an evidence of god's protection on his people and the wisdom of obeying the "gathering together" command ....
Guess how long will it take for the story to make the rounds of the JWs community, as an evidence of God's protection on his people and the wisdom of obeying the "gathering together" command ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/01/us/01homeschool.html?pagewanted=1.
one of the many factors that made me loose faith in the bible was the fact that camels were not domesticated during abrahams era.
i read this on the book "the bible unearthead".
do you know of any other evidence that shows camels were domesticated after 1000 bce.
For an attempt of harmonization between the Bible account and archaeological data see here:
John J. Davis, The Camel in Biblical Narratives, in Walter C. Kaiser, Ronald F. Youngblood (ed.), A Tribute to Gleason Archer, Chicago, Moody Press 1986, pages 141-152
http://abcnews.go.com/wn/miracles-world-news-question-day/story?id=9908545.
the full study here:.
http://pewforum.org/docs/?docid=510.
would appreciate any additional help and research into this.
if any of you have researched this at all would appreciate your findings and conclusions.
do not want to stumble anyone, so just be warned this could do that if you believe at the very least the english translations of the bible are pure.
See also:
Jeffrey H. Tigay, You Shall Have no Other Gods. Israelite Religion in the Light of Hebrew Inscriptions, Harvard Semitic Studies 31, Atlanta, Scholars Press 1986
Johannes C. De Moor, The Rise of Yahwism. The Roots of Israelite Monoteism, Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium 91, Leuven, University Press, Peeters 1997
John Day, Yahweh and the Gods and Goddesses of Canaan, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 265, Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press 2000
Barbara Nevling Porter (ed.), One God or Many? Concepts of Divinity in the Ancient World, Transactions of the Casco Bay Assyriological Institute 1, Casco Bay, Chebeague Island 2000
Mark S. Smith, The Origins of Biblical Monotheism: Israel's Polytheistic Background and the Ugaritic Texts, Oxford, Oxford University Press 2001