Recently it has been sugested that the Griffin was inspired by ancients seeing the remains of dinosaurs in the deserts of Mongolia, where they are plentiful. The is a good circumstantial historical case to be made and I initialy found the theory exciting. I have deep love of dinosaurs and a romantic attachemnt to the idea [...]
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Ancient Origins of the Griffin
Posted in Adriane Mayor, ancient fossil hunters, Anzu, Archaeology, Canaanite Mythology, Dinosaurs, dragon, Egyptian Mythology, Folk Lore, Folk Traditions, Greek Mythology, griffins, Hittite Mythology, Iran, Monsters, Sumeria, Sumerian Mythology, tagged adriane mayor, ancient fossil hunters, creationism, dinosaurs, dragon, egyptian mythology, fossils, greek mythology, griffin, living dinosaurs, monsters, mythology, religion, snakes, sumerian mythology on April 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Oral Tradition and the Israelite Folk History. Part 3
Posted in Biblical History, Folk Lore, Folk Traditions, History of Israel, McNair Research Project, Religion on June 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
J. Maxwell Miller and John H. Hayes’ book, “A History of Ancient Israel and Judah” commit part of their work to analyze the role history had in developing the accounts of the Book of Judges. I will attempt to explain their views. The first thing to look at is the composition of Judges its self. Judges appears [...]
Oral Tradition and the Israelite Folk History. Part 2
Posted in Biblical History, Folk Lore, Folk Traditions, History of Israel, McNair Research Project, Religion on June 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The limits of Israel’s Historical Folk Traditions How far back in time can we expect accurate historical accounts from Israel’s(by Israel, I mean that which is the core of the Israelite state and not peripheral states that were part of Israel at different points, such as Judah and Edom) folk traditions? I think an answer can be found by comparing [...]
Oral Tradition and the Israelite Folk History. Part 1
Posted in Biblical History, Folk Lore, Folk Traditions, History of Israel, McNair Research Project, Religion, tagged Folk Traditions on June 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been reading Jan Vansina’s book “Oral Tradition: A study in HistoricalMethodology” ( http://www.amazon.com/Oral-Tradition-Study-Historical-Methodology/dp/0202308197/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1307430411&sr=1-2 ) I wanted to read a book about how to think about oral traditions. My work in using the literature of the Ancient Near East frequently means using accounts that attempt to record the happenings of centuries before writing was used to capture [...]
