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There is now a critique of the Discovery Channel documentary by Amos Kloner himself as interviewed by Dr. Darrell Bock. It is in so many ways very revealing and makes perfectly clear that the tenth and blank ossuary was not by any means the James ossuary which we have no reason to think came from…

CHAPTER 8: MOTHERLOAD MISSING Some three hours after Sammy began preparations for the trip to Bethany, the team finally pulled out of IAA headquarters. To avoid any implications of impropriety, Art, against every impulse, knew he had to wait and go with the gang. At least with both Sammy and Grace qualified to authenticate the…

Well what can we say? United Methodists will admit almost anyone into membership, so desperate are we in an age of declining church attendance. And in Wales Township in Michigan at Lamb UMC there was a brief eulogy recently for a critter the pastor called a model member of his congregation— a wild turkey! If…

Just when you thought that movies were becoming far too formulaic and trite and sequeled, along comes a movie like “Black Snake Moan” which blows through your mind like a breath of fresh air. Let me be clear that this is a gritty movie, which, while it eschews violence for the most part, nevertheless portrays…

CHAPTER FIVE: An Israelite with Guile In the wake of a Hamas attack on his home in Gaza, Sadiq Hadassah joined the ranks of a radical orthodox movement in his native Israel. His parents, siblings and a grandmother had all been reduced to casualty statistics of the massacre. His wife of only a few months…

Friends, I did an extended radio interview for the U.K. audience which is airing soon but you can hear it now. Here is the link—http://www.premier.org.uk/engine.cfm?i=680 Let me know what you think. BW3

Note these two chapters have been reformated into plain text. Let me know if they read alright. From these computers it looks o.k. BW3 ——————————– CHAPTER THREE: Lost and Found That Boy Scouting memory must have been a premonition, thought Art. Never go swimming without a buddy…ha!…never go digging without one either! He’d lost track…

The following is the beginning of a novel I have written (its complete in draft form) with the help of my wife about the discovery of the tomb of Lazarus. Enjoy…… BW3 Let me know when you are ready for the next installment————– DUSTJACKET TEASER His heart filled his ears and was pounding at a…

Dr. Stephen Pfann of Jerusalem University who does a lot of close work on epigraphy and other related fields has now weighed in on the so-called Mary Magdalene ossuary (Rahmani no. 701). His detailed analysis of the inscription with careful comparison to other ossuary inscriptions and textual evidence shows the high likelihood that there were…

For those of us who grew up reading the Greek and Latin classics, the story of Leonidas and the 300 Spartans was certainly the stuff of legends. 300 men hold off the entire Persian army under Xerxes for a considerable period of time, inspiring all of the Greek city states to rise up and resist…
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