Robert said
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Sam Harris wrote the book, End of Faith.
The book Historical Accuracy would be of interest to Sam Harris and those who read his book.
The end of faith does not happen as Sam Harris suggested in his book,
it happens when the Abrahamic faiths comes clean, washed in historical accuracy.
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End of Faith, 2005
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Robert said
JAS said
Steefen said
You can get closer to the truth with historical accuracy.
That is like saying that you can get closer to historical accuracy with the truth. It is essentially a tautology.
I suspect our friend Steefen might have meant Historical Accuracy, his self-published book.
In that case, it may be more like an oxymoron.
There are people who have studied the Bible without knowing 1) critical points in Egyptology, 2) critical points in the Ancient Near East, 3) 1 Enoch and 2 Enoch, 4) works of Josephus, 4) the history of the Empire in which Galilee and Judea resides.
“I believe in the truths of my religious beliefs.”
There are people who have lived the unexamined life.
“I can get closer to the truth without historical accuracy.” That is essential what has been happening.
In culture and the development of civilization, practice shows the statement
I can get closer to the truth with historical accuracy is not born out to be a tautology.
“I only read what seems to be interesting or impressive to me.”
You are not getting closer to the truth that way.
There have even been people who have read the first passage of the Testimonium Flavianum and have made no reference to the two passages that follow it.
For a while, I had read much about Ancient Roman History but it wasn’t until I read a very good book on Herod the Great that Ancient Roman History became relevantly accurate.
After I complete my lectures on stocks and cryptocurrencies, I probably will read the book
The Gospel of Mark and the Roman-Jewish War of 66-70 CE: Jesus’ Story as a Contrast to the Events of the War
by Stephen Simon Kimondo
$33.00
Maybe I will write a review for the book on Amazon and Goodreads.
(I cannot see that happening or on the way, until February.)
So, February, I hope to be working on the second edition of my book, having learned what I can from Kimondo. I have some other notes on what needs to go into the second edition. And since one of my professional reviewers and a publicist told me my book needs a better cover, I have to prepare an interview sheet with nonfiction book cover designers. There is much to do with what I would like to accomplish.
Steefen said
I’ve used journalism software (PageMaker/InDesign)Yes, I use PowerPoint.
Of course, I use Word.
Yes, I use HTML for web pages.
But FrameMaker is fascinating
I’ve written theatrical plays but have not used the software specifically for writing scripts (screenplays included).
Ask the question, you get an answer.
Ugar, the gentleman in the video teaches a udemy course on writing a great research paper; so, one may be able to use technical writing software for academic/scholarly purposes.
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Hi Dr. Ehrman,
Do you when writing scholarly books, scholars writing articles, and do students only use Microsoft Word or have you all used Adobe FrameMaker or Adobe InDesign? I was watching a technical writing video which said Adobe FrameMaker was good for multi-level tables of contents and multi-level indexes. Some scholarly books have complex indexes, sometimes more than one index.
I am thinking you have seen other wordprocessing software because your writing has appeared in magazines; for example, Newsweek, Time, National Geographic, Biblical Archeological Review which probably produce their page layouts using Adobe InDesign.
Steve Campbell, author of Historical Accuracy
(also a financial writer and potentially a technical writer)
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