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Karl Kautsky: Jesus: Legends and Truths The release of the motion picture The Passion of Christ has reawakened general interest in Christ's life and mission. The moving story of the Passion is based entirely upon the Gospels, but research has shown that much of the material contained in these Gospels is highly contradictory and illogical, and thus either fictitious or misinterpreted. However, the much more likely story of Jesus, his life, and his mission can still be ascertained by rationally analyzing the scriptures. Karl Kautsky summarizes the state of critical theological research in this regard. He presents the closest picture of Jesus, his times, his teachings, and his contemporaries, as it can be deduced from the New Testament itself. He shows that it was the early Church itself that tempered with the historical record, because it had divorced itself from its early revolutionary Jewish origins. The new Christians were no longer Jews but Romans and others, and these Gentiles considered it politically incorrect to blame themselves for Christ's public execution by the Romans. Thus they blamed the Jews. First English translation ever. |
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(2004)
, ISBN:
974638609
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Nachman Ben-Yehuda: Sacrificing Truth: Archaeology and the Myth of Masada According to a patriotic legend still current in Israel, in 73 C.E. 960 heroic Jewish rebels committed mass suicide at the fortress of Masada rather than surrender to the overwhelming force of their Roman oppressors. But do the facts uncovered at Masada by archaeologists actually support the legend? According to sociologist Nachman Ben-Yehuda, Masada provides a case study of how the search for scientific truth can be influenced by the pressures of a cultural agenda. In this fascinating analysis of history in the making, Ben-Yehuda closely examines the day-by-day transcripts of the archaeologists' conversations at Masada to determine the way in which they evaluated the findings. He skillfully demonstrates that the interpretation of artifacts uncovered during the dig was significantly affected by the process of nation-building and the forging of a national identity, which was then under way in Israel. Nation-building required a heroic past, and the pressure of this requirement subtly led to concealing facts and even falsifying the historical evidence. The focus of this intriguing study is not only at Masada, but at the whole issue of deception in science and the social construction of knowledge. Ben-Yehuda considers the larger question of how society creates the symbolic moral boundaries between truth and deception, as well as the subtle interplay of science, politics, and ideology. This absorbing and thoroughly researched work makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the construction of cultural meaning. |
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275
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6x9.25" hc, b&w ill., bibl., index
(2002)
, ISBN:
1573929530
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Item No.
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Kevin MacDonald: The Culture of Critique. An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements Prof. MacDonald's trilogy seeks to develop an understanding of Judaism that is based on modern social and behavioral sciences, specifically the theory applied to animal behavior known as Group Evolutionary Strategy. In the first volume, "A People That Shall Dwell Alone," MacDonald presents the positives of his thesis, conceptualized as successful Jewish cultural and genetic segregation and protection from Gentile societies. In "Separation and its Discontents" he presents the negative reactions to this Jewish evolutionary group strategy from Gentiles, an ethnic conflict generally referred to as "Anti-Semitism." In "The Culture Of Critique," MacDonald demonstrates how several intellectual movements dominated by Jews, like the Boasian school of anthropology, Freudian psychoanalysis, leftist political ideology and behavior, the Frankfurt School of Social Research, and New York Jewish intellectuals, have attempted to alter western societies in order to end "anti-Semitism." At bottom, the evidence contained in these volumes demonstrates that Jewish group strategy reveals that Jews and Gentiles have different interests in the construction of culture. |
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(2nd ed. 2002)
, ISBN:
759672229
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Oswald Spengler: The Decline of the West Since its first publication in two volumes between 1918-1923, The Decline of the West has remained one of the most widely read and pondered books of the past century. A call to arms as well as a sober but beautiful evocation of the human past, Oswald Spengler describes how we have entered into a "world-historical" phase comparable to the challenges that faced Rome's Caesars at the onset of empire. Guided by Goethe and Nietzsche, he rejects linear progression, and instead presents a world view based on the cyclical rise and decline of civilizations. Spengler's "hard" analysis of the fate and destiny that marches with each culture from its initial blossoming to its final doom have inspired such disciples as Francis Parker Yockey (Imperium) As the face, heart, and brain of Europe and America changes each day, The Decline of the West is more relevant than ever and remains essential reading for anyone interested in the preservation, as well as the history, of our civilization. This abridged edition, prepared with the blessing of the Spengler estate, consists of selections from the original, linked by explanatory passages. |
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(1991)
, ISBN:
195066340
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Nachman Ben-Yehuda: The Masada Myth. Collective Memory and Mythmaking in Israel In 73 A.D., legend has it, 960 Jewish rebels under siege in the ancient desert fortress of Masada committed suicide rather than surrender to a Roman legion. Recorded in only one historical source, the story of Masada was obscure for centuries. In The Masada Myth, Israeli sociologist Nachman Ben-Yehuda tracks the process, by which Masada became an ideological symbol for the State of Israel, the dramatic subject of movies and miniseries, a shrine venerated by generations of Zionists and Israeli soldiers, and the most profitable tourist attraction in modern Israel. Ben-Yehuda describes how, after nearly 1,800 years, the long, complex, and unsubstantiated narrative of Josephus Flavius was edited and augmented in the twentieth century to form a simple and powerful myth of heroism. He looks at the ways this new mythical narrative of Masada was created, promoted, and maintained by pre-state Jewish underground organizations, the Israeli army, archaeological teams, mass media, youth movements, textbooks, the tourist industry, and the arts. He discusses the various organizations and movements that created the Masada experience (usually a ritual trek through the Judean desert followed by a climb to the fortress and a dramatic reading of the Masada story), and how it changed over decades from a Zionist pilgrimage to a tourist destination. Placing the story in a larger historical, sociological, and psychological context, Ben-Yehuda draws upon theories of collective memory and mythmaking to analyze Masada's crucial role in the nation-building process of modern Israel and the formation of a new Jewish identity. An expert on deviance and social control, Ben-Yehuda looks in particular at how and why a military failure and an enigmatic, troubling case of mass suicide (in conflict with Judaism's teachings) were reconstructed and fabricated as a heroic tale. |
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(1995)
, ISBN:
299148343
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Kevin MacDonald: Trilogy: A People that Shall Dwell Alone; Separation and Its Discontents; The Culture of Critique Prof. MacDonald's trilogy seeks to develop an understanding of Judaism that is based on modern social and behavioral sciences, specifically the theory applied to animal behavior known as Group Evolutionary Strategy. In the first volume, "A People That Shall Dwell Alone," MacDonald presents the positives of his thesis, conceptualized as successful Jewish cultural and genetic segregation and protection from Gentile societies. In "Separation and its Discontents" he presents the negative reactions to this Jewish evolutionary group strategy from Gentiles, an ethnic conflict generally referred to as "Anti-Semitism." In "The Culture Of Critique," MacDonald demonstrates how several intellectual movements dominated by Jews, like the Boasian school of anthropology, Freudian psychoanalysis, leftist political ideology and behavior, the Frankfurt School of Social Research, and New York Jewish intellectuals, have attempted to alter western societies in order to end "anti-Semitism." At bottom, the evidence contained in these volumes demonstrates that Jewish group strategy reveals that Jews and Gentiles have different interests in the construction of culture. |
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3 vols, 6x9" pb, bibl., index
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