Convenient Myths The Axial Age, Dark Green Religion, and the World that Never Was by Iain William Provan, DrIainProvan Hardcover, 170 Pages, Published 2013 by Baylor University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-60258-996-4, ISBN: 1-60258-996-8
"The contemporary world has been shaped by two important and potent myths. Karl Jaspers' construct of the "axial age" envisions the common past (800-200 BC), the time when Western society was born and world religions spontaneously and independently appeared out of a seemingly shared value set. Conversely, the myth of the "dark green golden age," as narrated by David Suzuki and others, asserts that the axial age and the otherworldliness t ..."
"There is an unholy mixture of God, sex, and violence in the whole environment
that the book describes. It is intriguing, therefore, to read that in the author's own
turning to God in the midst of the horror of it all, he not only took comfort in the
Psalms as a pathway to the God of love but also ... The two loves—of God and of
neighbor—are bound up with each other, ... God of repression is bound up with
repression of one human bei ..."
"Jesus used satire. Biblical prophets used satire. Christianity needs satire. Jesus Makes Me Laugh interviews people involved in religious satire today; filmmakers, web authors, playwrites, pranksters, and the grandfathers of religious satire magazines. But when does satire go too far? Who deserves to be satirized? The answers in Jesus Makes Me Laugh are guaranteed to make you laugh."
Let Us Go Up to Zion Essays in Honour of H. G. M. Williamson on the Occasion of His Sixty-fifth Birthday (Supplements to Vetus Testamentum) by Mark Boda, DrIainProvan, Iain W. Provan Hardcover, 515 Pages, Published 2012 by Brill ISBN-13: 978-90-04-21598-6, ISBN: 90-04-21598-0
"proposal is that an H redactor is responsible for Genesis essentially as we have it
now, his role for Gen 1 specifically was more that of an author creating an entirely
new composition. i will close with a few observations on the consequences of this
conclusion for investigations of the ... J. sutherland Black and allan Menzies, with
preface by W. robertson smith; edinburgh: adam & charles Black, 1885); trans. of
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