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Category Archives: Politeia Paper
Norman Thomas on Eisenhower, Guatemala, and Kennedy
I have three items for my write-up today on W.A. Swanberg’s biography of Norman Thomas, the six-time Socialist candidate for President of the United States. The biography is entitled Norman Thomas: The Last Idealist. 1. Norman Thomas was concerned about … Continue reading
Posted in Communism, History, Politeia Paper, Political Philosophy
Tagged Dwight Eisenhower, Israel, Jacqueline Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, John Foster Dulles, Norman Thomas, Richard Nixon, Suez, Syria
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The Contender: Richard Nixon, The Congress Years 6
In my latest reading of The Contender: Richard Nixon, The Congress Years, 1946-1952, Irwin Gellman talked about the Subversive Activities Control bill of 1948, which was introduced by representatives Karl Mundt of South Dakota and Richard Nixon of California and … Continue reading
Clear and Present Dangers 8
In my latest reading of M. Stanton Evans’ Clear and Present Dangers: A Conservative View of America’s Government (copyright 1975), I finished the chapter on health care, read the chapter on “The Population Scare”, and started the chapter on the … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Health Care, Movies, Politeia Paper, Political Philosophy, Ronald Reagan
Tagged Clear and Present Dangers, M. Stanton Evans
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Petichta; Symbolist; Confession; Unclear Foresight; Revisiting the Politeia
1. The first essay I read today was Lewis Barth’s “The Midrashic Enterprise”. What I’ll share from that article is that there’s a debate among scholars about the petichta in midrashic literature. What is a petichta? Let’s take Leviticus Rabbah. … Continue reading
Posted in Alcoholism, Bible, Church, Desperate Housewives, Greco-Roman, Movies, Politeia Paper, Rabbinics, Religion, Television
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Found Diodorus
In a post a while back, Paper on IV Maccabees: Looking for Diodorus, I discussed how a first century B.C.E. historian, Diodorus of Sicily, might help me on my IV Maccabees paper. My paper is about statements in II and … Continue reading
Posted in History, IV Maccabees, Papers, Politeia Paper, Religion, School
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Jubilees and the Hellenistic Reform
Source: George W.E. Nickelsburg, “The Bible Rewritten and Expanded,” Jewish Writings of the Second Temple Period, ed. Michael E. Stone (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984) 103. “…many of Jubilees’ additions to the biblical text of Genesis and Exodus have the Jew-gentile situation … Continue reading
Posted in Comps, Greco-Roman, II Maccabees, IV Maccabees, Papers, Politeia Paper, School
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Paper on IV Maccabees: Seth Schwartz Article
Yesterday, I read Seth Schwartz’s “The Hellenization of Jerusalem and Shechem,” Jews in a Greco-Roman World, ed. Martin Goodman (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998) 37-46. Here are some quotes: 1. “See Tcherikover (1958), 152-174; Bickerman (1979), 38-42, arguing that … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, History, II Maccabees, IV Maccabees, Papers, Politeia Paper, Religion
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Paper on IV Maccabees: Looking for Diodorus
Diodorus of Sicily was a Greek historian who lived in the first century B.C.E. In his Bibliotheca Historica, Book 40, he discusses the Jews. Martin Hengel cites him to say that some Jews believed the Hasmoneans were violating their ancestral … Continue reading
Posted in History, I Maccabees, Papers, Politeia Paper, Religion, School
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Paper on IV Maccabees: Philo on Sports
I read the following in Philo’s Life of Moses II 211. The translation is from C.D. Yonge, The Works of Philo (United States: Hendrickson, 1993). “For this reason the all-great Moses thought fit that all who were enrolled in his … Continue reading
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Paper on IV Maccabees: Philo on Antinomian Jews
Martin Hengel, Judaism and Hellenism: Studies in their Encounter in Palestine during the Early Hellenistic Period (London: SCM, 1974) 301. “Philo, too, reports much criticism of the Torah in Greek-educated and predominantly Jewish circles in Alexandria, ‘who disregard kinsmen and … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, History, II Maccabees, IV Maccabees, Papers, Politeia Paper, Religion
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