THE BIBLE IN PERSIA

Politics, Kinship, and Ecology in Southeast Persia

The Iranian plateau is an ideal area for investigating the relationship be? tween ecological and sociological factors because of its stark aridity, on the one hand, and its historical role as a meeting place of ethnic and cultural movements on the other. The part of the plateau which forms the southeast corner of Persia is particularly interesting from this point of view. Over an area of some 2...

Venereal disease in the Bible.

The existence or otherwise of allusions to syphilis in the books of the Old Testament is of more than passing interest to the venereologist, as it is of importance not only in considering arguments for and against the Columbian theory of the American origin of the disease in Europe, but also in the protracted dispute as to whether yaws and syphilis are or are not the same disease or modificatio...

Sexual Activity during Menstruation in The Holy Bible and Quran

The Bible and Pterosaurs

There is an increasing amount of archaeological and linguistic evidence that pterosaurs (flying reptiles) were mentioned by several authors of Scripture. This introductory article will deal with some of those biblical words and what I've learned about them from word studies and archaeology. The scientific basis for this study has been established by articles for peer-reviewed scientific publica...

The Bible Codes

○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ 1 Michael Drosnin published The Bible Codes [Simon & Schuster] in 1997, in which he claimed messages were hidden in the ancient Hebrew text of the Bible. In his book he claimed he saw the message “assassin who will assassinate” cross the text “Yitzhak Rabin,” Prime Minister of Israel at the time. Shortly thereafter, Rabin was indee...