I hit fifty this year, incredibly enough as I thought I was still nineteen. The doctor casually informed me the other week that I'd 'have to start being careful', though he didn't specify about what. If he was referring to drinking then he can bugger off,
+ more bio informationI first read the so-called Tibetan Book of the Dead', in the acclaimed 1927 Evans-Wentz translation, some twenty years ago and found it pretty heavy going. At the same time, I appreciated that it was packed with the wisdom of the ages and wished that it could have been more accessible, rather than reading like an early twent... More..
Joshua is an unsavoury character, and even the old Talmudic scholars tended to gloss over him, as if embarrassed by his brutality. There is little of the prophecy, and none of the poetry, that make other books in the Scriptures so attractive. His story is a catalogue of slaughters and executions in a long and unremitting ser... More..
David Elliott
London, Middlesex GB
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