The Bible became the book of books, but it is not one document. It is a mystical library of interwoven texts by unknown authors who wrote and edited at different times with widely divergent aims. This sacred work of so many epochs and so many hands contains some facts of provable history, some stories of unprovable myth, some poetry of soaring beauty, and many passages of unintelligible, perhaps coded, perhaps simply mistranslated, mystery. Most of it is written not to recount events but to promote a higher truth—the relationship of one people and their God.
The greatest privilege of childhood is to live totally in the present. - Simon Sebag-Montefiore
The greatest privilege of childhood is to live totally in the present.
- Simon Sebag-Montefiore
The Bible became the book of books, but it is not one document. It is a mystical library of interwoven texts by unknown authors who wrote and edited … - Simon Sebag-Montefiore
The Bible became the book of books, but it is not one document. It is a mystical library of interwoven texts by unknown authors who wrote and edited …
The Jews had a love-hate relationship with the Greek culture. They craved its civilization but resented its dominance. Josephus says they regarded Gr… - Simon Sebag-Montefiore
The Jews had a love-hate relationship with the Greek culture. They craved its civilization but resented its dominance. Josephus says they regarded Gr…
The language of these Soviet show trials... could only be understood in the Aesopian imagery of the closed Bolshevik universe of conspiracies of evil… - Simon Sebag-Montefiore
The language of these Soviet show trials... could only be understood in the Aesopian imagery of the closed Bolshevik universe of conspiracies of evil…
Stalin was formed by much more than a miserable childhood, just as the USSR was formed by much more than Marxist ideology. - Simon Sebag-Montefiore
Stalin was formed by much more than a miserable childhood, just as the USSR was formed by much more than Marxist ideology.
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