Adios for now

[Dr GS Hurd]

I have a belly full, and I am going to better spend my time.

I'll leave with this insightful tune;

 

[Dr GS Hurd]

And, I think this is the following:

 

[Dr GS Hurd]

Reading suggestions to video #1 from my personal book shelves:


Barr, James
2005 “History and Ideology in the Old Testament: Biblical Studies at the end of a Millennium” Oxford University Press

Black, Jeremy, Anthony Green, Tessa Rickards (illustrator)
2003 "Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia" Austin: University of Texas Press.

Blenkinsopp, Joseph
1992 The Pentateuch: An Introduction to the First Five Books of the Bible The Anchor Bible Reference Library New York: ABRL/Doubleday

Boadt, Lawrence
1984 Reading the Old Testament: an Introduction Mahwah N.J.: The Paulist Press

Bodine, Walter R., (Ed.)
1992 "Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew." Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns

Brotzman, Ellis R.
1994 "Old Testament textural criticism: a practical introduction." Grand Rapids: Baker Academic

Brown F., Driver S., Briggs C.
2007 (reprint from 1906) “Hebrew and English Lexicon: With an Appendix Containing the Biblical Aramaic: With Strong’s Numbering” Peabody Mass: Hendrickson Publishers (The Strong’s catalog #s was added by Hendrickson Publishers).

Cross, Frank Moore
1973 Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic: Essays in the History of the Religion of Israel. Boston: Harvard University Press

Dahood, Mitchell
1965 Psalms I, 1-50: Introduction, Translation and Notes New York: Anchor Bible- Doubleday

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1968 Psalms II, 51-100: Introduction, Translation and Notes New York: Anchor Bible- Doubleday

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1970 Psalms III, 101-150: Introduction, Translation and Notes New York: Anchor Bible- Doubleday (1995 paperback printing)

Dalley, Stephanie
2000 “Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, The Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others, Revised” Oxford University Press

Dever, William
2001 What Did the Biblical Writers Know & When Did They Know IT?: What Archaeology can tell us about the reality of ancient Israel Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

Dever, William
2005 “Did God Have A Wife? Archaeology And Folk Religion In Ancient Israel
Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

Ehrman, Bart D.
2005 "Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why" San Francisco: Harper

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2009 “Jesus, Interrupted” New York: Harper One

Falk, Harvey
1985 “Jesus the Pharisee” New York: Paulist Press

Finkelstein, Israel, Neil Silberman
2001 The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts New York: The Free Press

Friedman, Richard Elliott
1987 Who Wrote the Bible? New York:Harper and Row (Paperback Edition)

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2003 "The Bible with Sources Revealed: A new view into the five books of Moses" New York:HarperCollins)

Funk, Robert W., Roy W. Hover, The Jesus Seminar
1993 The Five Gospels: What did Jesus really say? New York: Scribner

Hamilton, Victor P.
1990 “The Book of Genesis: Chapters 1-17” Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing Co.

Dr. Michael S. Heiser, Academic Editor
What's Ugaritic Got to Do with Anything?, Logos Bible Software http://www.logos.com/ugaritic

Herodotus ~485-425 BCE
1972 “The Histories” Penguin Classics

Jacobsen, Thorkild
1976 The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion New Haven: Yale University Press

Jenkins, Philip
2010 “Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 Years” New York: HarperCollins

Jewish Publication Society
2004 “The Jewish Study Bible: TANAKA translation” Oxford University Press.

Killebrew, Ann E.
2005 “Biblical Peoples and Ethnicity: An Archaeological Study of Egyptians, Canaanites, Philistines, and Early Israel.” Society of Biblical Literature

Kramer, Samuel Noah
1972 "Sumerian Mythology: A study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C." OP 1961 New York: University of Pennsylvania Press/ Harper.

Maccoby, Hyam
1986 The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity San Francisco: HarperCollins/Barnes and Noble

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2003 “Jesus the Pharisee” London: SCM Press

Marshack, Alexander
1991 The Roots of Civilization Singapore: Palace Press and Alabama:
Books International

Matthews, Victor H., Don C. Benjamin
2006 “Old Testament Parallels: Law and Stories from the Ancient Near East” New York: The Paulist Press.

Mayor, Adrienne
2000 The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times. Princeton University Press

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2005 Fossil Legends of the First Americans. Princeton University Press

Mazar, Amihai
1992 Archaeology of the Land of the Bible: 10,000-586 B.C.E. The Anchor Bible Reference Library NewYork: ABRL/Doubleday

Pardee, Dennis
2002 Writings from the Ancient World Vol. 10: Ritual and Cult at Ugarit Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature

Parker, Simon B. (Editor)
1997 Ugarit Narrative Poetry Translated by Mark S. Smith, Simon B. Parker, Edward L Greenstein, Theodore J. Lewis, David Marcus, Vol. 9 Writings from the Ancient World. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature

Pope, Marvin H.
1965 “Job: A new translation with Introduction and Commentary” Anchor Bible Vol. 15, New York: ABRL/Doubleday

Schmandt-Besserat, Denise
1992 Before Writing Volume I: From counting to cuneiform Austin: University of Texas Press

Schniedewind, William M., Joel H. Hunt
2007 “A Primer on Ugaritic: Language, Culture, and Literature” Cambridge University Press

Slifkin, Rabbi Natan
2006/2008 “The Challenge of Creation: Judaism’s Encounter with Science, Cosmology and Evolution” New York: Zoo Torah and Yashar Books

Slifkin, Rabbi Natan
2007 “Sacred Monsters: Mysterious and Mythical Creatures of Scripture, Talmud and Midrash” New York: Zoo Torah and Yashar Books

Smith, Mark S.
2002 “The Early History of God 2nd ed.” Grand Rapids: Wm B Eerdmans Publishing
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2003 “The Origins of Biblical Monotheism: Israel's Polytheistic Background and the Ugaritic Texts” Oxford University Press.

Sparks, Kenton L.
2005 “Ancient Texts for the Study of the Hebrew Bible” Peabody PA: Hendrickson Publishers

Speiser, E. A.
1962 "Genesis: Introduction, Translation and Notes" New York: Anchor Bible- Doubleday

Stern, Ephraim
2001 Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, Vol. II: The Asserian, Babylonian and Persian Periods (732-332 B.C.E.) The Anchor Bible Reference Library New York: ABRL/Doubleday

Strong, James (author), revised and edited Kohlenberger, James R. III, Swanson, James A.
2001 edition (original 1894) “The Strongest Strong’s exhaustive concordance of the Bible (KJV) for the 21st Century” Grand Rapids: Zondervan.

Walton, John H.
2006 “Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament” Grand Rapids: Baker Academic Press

Zevit, Ziony
2001 The Religions of Ancient Israel: A Synthesis of Parallactic Approaches” New York: Continuum Press

 

[Dr GS Hurd]

A short list (leaving out general relativity), but also dense reading to video #2:
(Davies, and McGrath are nit wits. I didn't know until I bought their books).

Carter, Brandon
1983 “The Anthropic Principle and its Implications for Biological Evolution [and Discussion] Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A, 310;1512:347-363
http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/310/1512/347.full.pdf

Davies, Paul
1983 “God and the New Physics” New York: Simon and Shuster/Touchstone

Gonzales, Guillermo Jay W. Richards
2004 “The Privileged Planet” Regnery Publishing Inc.

Gross, David
2005 “The Quantum Structure of Space and Time: Proceedings of the 23rd Solvay Conference on Physics” Ed. David Gross (Brussels: World Scientific Pub Co Inc)

Hawkings, Stephen
1988 "A Brief History of Time" Bantam Books

Krauss, Lawrence
2012 “A Universe From Nothing” New York: Free Press

McGrath, Alister E.
2009 "A Fine-Tuned Universe" Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press

Susskind, Leonard
2005 "The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design" New York: Little and Brown Publishers

Woit, Peter
2006 "Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory" New York: Basic Books

On November 2nd, 2000, Douglas Adams visited Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he gave a talk about the book he co-authored with Mark Carwardine, entitled "Last Chance To See". Alas, for members of the audience, it was also the last chance to see the witty and ingenious man who stood behind the books we respected and loved.

On that day, Mr. Adams concluded his talk with a brilliant metaphor. He compared a human being to a puddle that wakes up one morning, looks around and says, "What a nice hole in the ground - it's made just for me ! Look at how nicely it's indentations fit my beautiful curves, and the depth and the radius are just right...". And as the puddle carried on in its self-centered pleasure, the sun kept shining on it until there was not a trace of it left. Then, Mr. Adams asked us to remember the story and never reduce ourselves to the level of that puddle, for that will give us many more "chances to see."
http://web.mit.edu/aramis/www/dna/dna.htm

 

[Armoured]

Well I've appreciated your input. Thanks!

 

[florida2]

<Staff Edit>

Dr Hurd has been one of the most insightful posters on here and I have greatly enjoyed what I've seen of his contributions.

Perhaps you can link to offending posts that you think are 'foul'?

Plus what a lovely Christian sentiment to send him off with.[/QUOTE]

 

[Gene2memE]

I have a belly full, and I am going to better spend my time.

I'll be sad to see you go. In the brief time you've been here, you've raised the average quality of posts by a statistically significant margin (p < 0.01).

I recommend that everyone check out Dr Hurd's blog: Stones and Bones

 

[The Barbarian]

I wish you'd reconsider. I've really enjoyed reading your comments, and you add some scientific credibility here.