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In the Beginning

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Jonathan Beckman

Epics of creation and the history of the world have their origins, for us at any rate, in the Near East. To whatever period we date the production of the earliest documents of the Old Testament (the so-called E and J documents from Palestine – 8th and 6th century BC?), we now know that they […]

The History Which Never Happened

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Jonathan Beckman

King Lear’s father was a royal prince named Bladud. As a young man he contracted a repulsive skin disease and was sent away from court to be a swineherd. Unfortunately, the pigs began to suffer from the disease as well. Poor Bladud was horrified, but then the pigs went wallowing in the mud at a […]

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