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		<title>Memoir of a Young Muslim</title>
		<link>http://oldroads.org/blog/2010/03/memoir-of-a-young-muslim/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martyn Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Emory]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[About two-thirds of the way through Children of Dust by Ali Eteraz I realized I was reading about a setting with which I was intimately familiar. ]]></description>
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		<title>Exodus and the Asiatics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martyn Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ancient Egypt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hyksos have always been a target for scholars trying to connect the Exodus to Egyptian history. Jan Assmann connects the repressed historical memory of Akhenaten to the "memory" of the Exodus. But we really don't need to pin down a specific event or time. Throughout Egyptian history there was settlement in the Delta on the part of families and tribes from the Syria/Palestine. Egyptian literature testifies to cycles of settlement and expulsion of Asiatics.]]></description>
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		<title>Concepts into Numbers: The False Model of Economics</title>
		<link>http://oldroads.org/blog/2010/03/concepts-into-numbers-the-false-model-of-economics/</link>
		<comments>http://oldroads.org/blog/2010/03/concepts-into-numbers-the-false-model-of-economics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martyn Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My argument here is that this neglect of one side of our experience is a logical result of the application of models developed in the discipline of economics. In the humanities we should strive for a knowledge that is more Weberian.. that is, a knowledge that recognizes the dynamic interplay between material and imaginative demands. ]]></description>
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		<title>Heritage Texts vs. Discovered Texts</title>
		<link>http://oldroads.org/blog/2010/03/heritage-texts-vs-discovered-texts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martyn Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ancient Egypt]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oldroads.org/blog/?p=1039</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One pedagical issue that has come up for me this term is the difference between teaching heritage texts and discovered texts. By heritage texts I mean works of literature that have come down to us in a continuous fashion.]]></description>
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		<title>Evolution and Global Warming Crossover</title>
		<link>http://oldroads.org/blog/2010/03/evolution-and-global-warming-crossover/</link>
		<comments>http://oldroads.org/blog/2010/03/evolution-and-global-warming-crossover/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martyn Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oldroads.org/blog/?p=1037</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who grew up—as I did—in an environment in which evolution was constantly called into question will easily recognize the rhetorical strategies of global warming deniers. The project of knocking down an idea involves constant hammering at the notion of the expert.]]></description>
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		<title>Religion of the Lukewarm</title>
		<link>http://oldroads.org/blog/2010/03/religion-of-the-lukewarm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martyn Smith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oldroads.org/blog/?p=1035</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The "Song of the Harper" casts doubt on the received version of the afterlife. The heading of the song reads "The song which is in the chapel of King Intef, justified in front of the singers with the harp." This heading from a papyrus version pushes us at least fictionally to imagine a tomb inscription.]]></description>
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		<title>The Institutional Mysticism of the Isma&#8217;ilis</title>
		<link>http://oldroads.org/blog/2010/02/the-institutional-mysticism-of-the-ismailis/</link>
		<comments>http://oldroads.org/blog/2010/02/the-institutional-mysticism-of-the-ismailis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martyn Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But while I knew that the Isma'ilis made use of Neoplatonist thought that goes back to Plotinus, I wondered how exactly Neoplatonism melded with Isma'ili thought.. and what accounted for the differences in tone. Early Philosophical Shiism: The Ismaili Neoplatonism of Abu Ya'qub al-Sijistani by Paul E. Walker is a book that, although narrowly focused, addresses exactly the connection between Neoplatonic philosophy and Isma'ili theology.]]></description>
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		<title>Bridge Over the Desert</title>
		<link>http://oldroads.org/blog/2010/02/bridge-over-the-desert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martyn Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cairo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ibn Jubayr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oldroads.org/blog/?p=1026</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the mysteries about Cairo has been the presence of a large bridge that runs from an area on the western bank of the Nile across from the Island of Rawda and then proceeded a few miles to the foot of the pyramids. These bridges were under construction at the time of Ibn Jubayr's visit in 1183 A.D.]]></description>
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		<title>A Hymn to Osiris &#8211; The Book of the Dead</title>
		<link>http://oldroads.org/blog/2010/02/a-hymn-to-osiris-the-book-of-the-dead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 05:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martyn Smith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oldroads.org/blog/?p=1022</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Much of the Book of the Dead consists of spells or gives passwords for the afterlife, but a number of hymns are also included. These hymns carry some of the explicitly theological content of the Book of the Dead.]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Courses as Window to Humanities</title>
		<link>http://oldroads.org/blog/2010/02/the-great-courses-as-window-to-humanities/</link>
		<comments>http://oldroads.org/blog/2010/02/the-great-courses-as-window-to-humanities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martyn Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[academy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oldroads.org/blog/?p=1019</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The lecture series entitled "The Great Courses," offered by the Teaching Company, should offer encouragement to the humanities professor. The offerings include lectures that will cross into the territory of many introductory classes at any college. Titles include "Classics of American Literature," "A History of European Art," and "Introduction to the Study of Religion." People aren't buying these courses to check off graduation requirements, they are doing so out of regard for their own personal enrichment.]]></description>
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