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SMOKE ON THE MOUNTAIN. Good ole country folk sing the evening away in this funny, affectionate off-Broadway look at a Saturday night Bible Belt church meeting circa 1938. "Praise be!"
I am Jewish; most of Lubbock, as you can imagine, is not. In fact, Lubbock is predominantly Southern Baptist. It has been described as the "buckle of the Bible Belt" and is reputed to have more churches per capita than any other city of its size.
I recall the Hanukah presentation--complete with menorah, skullcap and tallit--that I gave to my sixth-grade class, and the invitation that followed to give an encore performance for the younger kids. I recall looking out from the pulpit at my Bar Mitzvah and seeing the attentive faces of...
Calf worship comes up in other parts of the Bible as well, always derided as an example of paganism. But while scientists have unearthed a few examples of bovine idols, they have never found a calf that predates the Exodus, which scholars think took place between 1500 and 1200 B.C...
Her bosses did. Says Harvard's Lawrence Stager, the dig director: "I'm an old farm boy and recognized it as a bull calf immediately." Judging from the style of other pottery in the temple, he dates the figurine to about 1550 B.C. Because that is up to several hundred...