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| 199 | 5412 | So, you can use the log to get across the stream: Sara’s analogy of the log and the stream is adapted from a Buddhist analogy of a raft: Ferguson, Marilyn: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s. Paladin, London 1982, p. 416. |
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| 202 | 5492 | Tonight’s session is all about the Bible: Dominic’s fifth talk is based on Gumbel, Nicky: Questions of Life: A Practical Introduction to the Christian Faith, Cook Ministry Resources, Colorado 1996, pp. 69-85. |
| 203 | 5531 | Every Christian believes in God’s love and seeks an understanding of suffering within the framework of that love: Gumbel: op cit, p. 75. |
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| 213 | 5788 | Sophisticated Jews and Christians have long known that you should not take these bits any more literally than we would take the stories of Zeus, Prometheus and what have you: Armstrong, Karen: A History of God, Vintage, London 1993, p. 332. Stravrakopoulu, Francesca: God An Anatomy (Kindle Edition), Picador, 2021, Loc 765. |
| 213 | 5789 | They are myths, brilliant myths, but no more than that: Lane Fox, Robin: The Unauthorised Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible, Viking, London 1991, p. 218. |
| 217 | 5924 | historians and archaeologists used to assume they were real historical figures: Finkelstein, Israel and Silberman, Neil Asher: The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of its Sacred Texts. Touchstone, New York 2002, pp. 33-5, 319-325 |
| 217 | 5926 | (Historians) built up a detailed, year-by-year history of Egypt: Finkelstein & Silberman: op cit, pp. 16-8. |
| 217 | 5928 | The Hyksos: Finkelstein & Silberman: op cit, pp. 52-7. |
| 218 | 5933 | Archaeologists eventually had to admit they found couldn’t find anything that backed up the story of the Exodus as told in the Bible: Finkelstein & Silberman: op cit, pp. 61-64, Romer, John: Testament: The Bible and History, Michael O’Mara Books, London 1988, pp. 57, 73. |
| 218 | 5943 | Almost all historians think there is a kernel of truth in the story of the Exodus: Finkelstein & Silberman:op cit, pp. 68-71 (they suggest that the Exodus story also reflects later tensions between Judah and Egypt); Lane Fox: The Unauthorised Version, p. 176. |
| 218 | 5956 | Invasions and mass migrations leave tell-tale signs in the archaeological record: Barton, John: A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths, Penguin Random House, London 2020, p. 27. |