It is now well known that the Hebrew prophets, even as they denounced Canaanite idolatry, borrowed freely from its mythic imagery and poetry. The Faces of God is the first book to analyze the Canaanite content in Hebrew scripture for its inner coherence, to examine what these myths might mean and how they were used.
Necrophilic classical polymath Jacob Rabinowitz took a look at biblical texts available in English translation and found them wanting. The Unholy Bible contains his retranslation of the most egregiously Bowdlerized texts. These new versions are intended to make Good King James, Jerry Falwell, Mother Theresa and other sanctimonious hegemonists of ...
Witchcraft in antiquity, and particularly the Goddess Hekate, has never been seriously studied, but sidelined as an variety of magic, or as a purely literary phenomenon, or as identical to the much-later Salemists. Here, then, is the first complete and comprehensive study of the topic from the time of Homer to the Greek Magical Papyri (800 bc400 ...
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