Resultados para "Stolen" en Estudios religiosos

In 2012, Steve Green, billionaire and president of Hobby Lobby, announced a purchase of a Biblical artefact—a fragment of papyrus carrying lines from Paul's letter to the Romans, and dated to the second century CE. Noted scholar Roberta Mazza was stunned. When was this piece discovered, and how could Green acquire such a rare item? The answers, which Mazza spent the next ten years uncovering, came as a shock: the fragment had come from a famous collection held at Oxford University, and its rightful owners had no idea it had been sold.

We live in a pharmaceutical age where drugs contribute to and are a potential solution for many personal and societal problems. But instead of serious ethical inquiry into these substances' role in our lives, we've embraced harmful political and cultural trends of wholesale rejection of "evil" drugs while searching for "miracle" cures. But for most of human history, what we today call drugs were considered gifts from the divine with the potential to bestow healing, power, and wisdom. These were gifts of fire, essential to our lives but with underlying danger.

This exploration of the private wartime diary of Alfred Rosenberg—Hitler’s “chief philosopher” and architect of Nazi ideology—interweaves the story of its recent discovery with the revelation of its never-before-published contents, which are contextualized by the authors: The result is...

An investigation of how Moses was deceived and murdered by his father-in-law, Reuel Shows how the magician Reuel staged the Burning Bush that spoke to Moses and assumed Moses’ identity after his murder Explains how early scribes edited the Exodus story to cover Moses’ assassination...