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New Findings
The New Yorker, The Big Reveal, Why does the Bible end that way?
March 5, 2012. In her new book, Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation (Viking), Elaine Pagels sets out to gently bring the fiery, apocalyptic symbolism back to earth.
American Scientist Volume 92, The Adaptive Value of Religious RitualMarch-April, 2004. Rituals promote group cohesion by requiring members to engage in behavior that is too costly to fake.
BBC, World: Middle East Oldest alphabet found in EgyptNovember 15, 1999. US scientists believe they have found the earliest surviving alphabet in ancient Egyptian limestone inscriptions.
BBC, ‘Earliest writing’ foundMay 4, 1999. The first known examples of writing may have been unearthed at an archaeological dig in Pakistan.