The fact that this name is derived from a pagan Germanic Spring goddess, Oestre or Ostara, has led to further claims of pagan survival, which I too have entertained, but the reality is that this name for the ho
The only argument in favor of it being genuine is the same as for Josephus—how could the Church be so bad at forgery? A detail of a sculpture of Pliny the Younger. By Wolfgang Sauber CC BY-SA 3.0 Does the Roman Politician and Historian Tacitus (C. 56-120 CE) Prove the Existence o...
However, nostalgic representations of the past say more about the present and longings for a better future than about the past 'as it was'. Therefore, the chapter suggests that the nostalgic remembrance of religious co-existence in Ottoman society and the persistence of cross-religious symbols in...
In 2016, Japan and South Korea signed the General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA)—the first military agreement between the two countries. The agreement called for the sharing of military intelligence concerning North Korea and its missile and nuclear programs. Despite numerous simil...
(27) With this logic he surely should have noticed that his argument was also from silence. An absence of reasons against Jesus' authorship provides no evidence that he did, in fact, write the book. Potter additionally argues that The Secrets of Enoch was written by one author, from 1 50...
The argument for an old earth comes from the presumption that the age of fossils is determined by the age of the rock strata they’re found in, and that those strata are very old. But young earth geologists argue that dating rock strata is based on a clock that has been misread. Old ...
(or, more precisely, what I began to work out at about 5 AM the next morning when my brain decided that it had spent enough time mulling over what Pocock had said and concluded that it was time to wake me up so that I could sketch out the implications of his argument for the work...
The argument unfolds in five sections: the first section opens up a theoretical framework, which will then be adopted for the analysis of the categories "child" and "mother" in debates about Swiss kindergarten education between 1950 and 1980 (1). In a second section, the increasing attention ...
The second question concerns the position of Abraham: How could he obey such a command without argument, especially in light of his previous negotia-tion with God to stop the destruction of Sodom?2In fact, these questions receive initial validation from within the Bible itself, which condemns ...
Next, we share a case study related to the history of botany that helps to contextualize our argument. Going Deeper: A Short Case in the History of Botany Botanical activity developed in Europe had undergone a major change during the eighteenth century when, in the early part of that century...