the stars of Bethlehem?

joining the procession through the years, a new "docudrama" (History Channel, Easter 2013) considers the "Star of Bethlehem" and the "Magi"...
alignments of planets, comets, occultations, super novae... comparisons with Chinese records, numismatics... Philo, Josephus, Dionsius Exiguus, Herod, Augustus...
common, misleadingly-simplistic computer graphics of "space"; hokie cartoon images of the magi observing the sky, acameling to Jerusalem...time estimates of travel, etc

but the 6-7 scientists, astronomers, ministers...all seemed like children playing at Biblical explanation

reverse history?

to recognize the ideas by which we live and move and have our being

reverse historicizing?

The Playwright?

The search for the missing Playwright post-mortem dei?

Reverse playwrighting?

homo post-sovieticus?

homo po$t-$ovieticu$

on the streets of Moscow

quantities of predictable similarities

the slow death of Man?

over a century or three:
the death of imago dei post-mortem biblia...?

inhuman?

what that a human does is inhuman, and why?

Plato's Academy and Jesus' Golgotha?

instructive in regards to more than sic transit gloria mundi to read in In the Footsteps of the Gods: Travellers to Greece and the Quest for the Hellenic Ideal (David Constantine, rev. 2011) how both the Apollo's Temple and the Platonic Academy were difficult to locate, as the English traveler Jacob Spon reported of his journey in the 1670s.
the Christian sites in Jerusalem were also unnoticed, unmarked and uncertain when Empress Helena made her journey in 330.

gnothi seauton!?

man imagines it knows himself (or could if it made the effort)

(worth knowing that while "know thyself" in one form or language or other is spread from (disputably) Thales of Miletus via Plato, Linnaeus, et al, even onto The Matrix, that there appears to be no full scholarly study of the history of it as an idea: gnothi seauton, nosce te ipsum, know yourself.)

the gospel truth

coming to the end of The Enlightenment Bible...
to seriously believe in the Bible's stories, it is seriously better not to know its history