The Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology presents the program for the 2012 spring Semester lectures at the International Women’s Club Peoples of the Ancient Near East -

* 6.3.2012 – Prof. Jacob Klein – “The Mesopotamian King and His Mother”
* 13.3.2012 – Dr. Jonathan Ben-Dov – “Astronomy, Astrology and Calendars: From the Cuneiform Culture to Judea”
* 20.3.2012 – Dr. Josef Nagar – “Who Are We? – The Stories of the Populations of Israel”
* 27.3.2012 – Mr. Omer Sergi – “Aram and the Formation of Israel and Judah”
* 3.4.2012 – Prof. Oded Lipschits – “Judah under Babylonian Rule and the Birth of Judaism”
* 17.4.2012 – Dr. Dan’el Kahn – “The Black Pharaohs: Egypt’s 25th Dynasty”
* 24.4.2012 – Mrs. Shirly Ben-Dor Evian – “Continuity and Change in Ancient Egyptian History”
* 1.5.2012 – Prof. Oded Tamuz – “Disintegration from Above: A Case Study on the History of Southern Phoenicia and Philistia”
* 8.5.2012 – Prof. Jak Yakar – “Reconstructing the Social Frameworks of Farmers and Pastoralists in Neolithic Anatolian Society”
* 15.5.2012 – Mr. Ilan Peled – “The Hittites: A Fascinating and Unique Culture in the Ancient Near East”
* 22.5.2012 – Dr. Yoram Cohen – “How the World Was Created: The Babylonian Myth Enuma-Elish”
* 29.5.2012 – Prof. Jonathan Price – “Voices in Stone: Ancient History from Ancient Inscriptions”
* 5.6.2012 – Dr. Amir Golani – “Jewelry and the Jewelers’ craft during the Iron Age”
* 12.6.2012 – Dr. Erez Ben Yosef – “King Solomon’s Mines? New Research of Iron Age Copper Production in the Arabah Valley”
* 19.6.2012 – Ms. Keren Ras- “The ”Woman at the Window” in Iconography, Biblical Literature and Material Culture from Ramat Rahel”

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In France, an elderly man is fighting to make a formal break with the Catholic Church. He’s taken the church to court over its refusal to let him nullify his baptism, in a case that could have far-reaching effects.  Seventy-one-year-old Rene LeBouvier’s parents and his brother are buried in a churchyard in the tiny village of Fleury in northwest France. He himself was baptized in the Romanesque stone church and attended mass here as a boy.  LeBouvier says this rural area is still conservative and very Catholic, but nothing like it used to be. Back then, he says, you couldn’t even get credit at the bakery if you didn’t go to mass every Sunday.

If he hadn’t been baptized before he was able to decide for himself, he wouldn’t need to ask to have his baptism undone.  This is precisely why infant baptism is inappropriate.  Until a person desires it, it remains a meaningless exercise in futility.

The federal government should help police departments nationwide obtain the tools and training needed to attack a rising scourge of driving under the influence, two U.S. senators said Sunday.

Sens. Charles Schumer of New York and Mark Pryor of Arkansas proposed that federal funding in a pending transportation funding bill be used for research and to train police. They said police have no equipment and few have training in identifying drugged drivers, who don’t show the same outward signs of intoxication as drunken drivers do, such as slurred speech.

Drugged driving… I’m sure it’s been going on for years but it’s one of those things you just never think about.  So now we have to worry about drunk drivers, texting drivers, distracted drivers, and drugged drivers.  Next up, doubtless, unconscious drivers.

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So to those angry atheists insulting me- bring it. I’ll continue to care as little about it as the moon cares when a dog howls. Howl away atheist dogs. Howl away.

The head of Iran’s state oil company said Sunday that the price of crude will reach $120 to $150 per barrel, as officials in Tehran prepare to discuss a ban on crude sales to European Union countries in retaliation for an EU embargo.

Now why would he say that? Hmmm…. Perhaps to scare the Europeans? Perhaps to push prices up on the ‘fear factor’ that greedy oil speculators so treasure? Or perhaps both?

But who believes anything Iran says? And why would anyone? But given the fact that the West is so enslaved to Middle Eastern oil it will probably work. If only our policy makers had some remnant of sense and had developed alternative energy sources thereby making Iranian (and Iraqi and Saudi) oil unnecessary back in the days of the oil embargo of the 1970′s. But alas. Our leaders are short sighted imbeciles. So you and I will pay the price, literally.

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