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Walk in the Emek Refaim Street – Angela Keller (2002)

The oil painting by Angela Keller, “Walk in the Emek Refaim Street”, portrays what is one of the main streets in Jerusalem. In modern Hebrew, “Emek Refaim” is usually understood as “Valley of the Giants”, which gives an amusing slant … Continue reading

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Take a Stroll down Emek Refaim Street, Jerusalem

Jerusalem is truly a most wondrous city to visit, and Ben Yehuda is no longer the “place to be”. Try Emek Refaim Street for a wide selection of restaurants from “Aroma” coffee bar to some more up market fancy establishments. … Continue reading

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Alan Moore writes his Bible: Jerusalem to be printed on Bible Paper?

Alan Moore’s prose novel Jerusalem, forthcoming 2012, will be approximately 750,000 words long. I was talking to Professor Steve Jones at one of those evenings that I did, the Uncaged Monkeys at the Hammersmith Apollo. I was telling him that … Continue reading

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Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? Casey on Jesus (4) – Inconsistencies and Deliberate Changes in the Gospel Post-Resurrection Accounts

Review of “Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?” in Maurice Casey, Jesus of Nazareth: An Independent Historian’s Account of His Life and Teaching. London and New York: T&T Clark (Continuum), 2010. Part 4: Inconsistencies and Deliberate Changes in the Gospel … Continue reading

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