New Ancient World

One day while sitting around the dinner table with his family, Victor Briggs’s Uncle Tim told him that on a visit to Hawaii, he had met an Indigenous Hawaiian Elder who told him a story. A long time ago, Indigenous Australian seafarers had sailed to Hawaii on the trade winds. When they got there, they had helped the Hawaiians with skills, information and technology. Hawaiian people were so impressed with Aboriginal people that they let them stay on their islands when they were travelling throughout the Pacific Regions.

This book addresses the following topics and more: Dreams--are they produced by our minds, or is something else going on? Eternal beings--do our biological bodies serve as temporary hosts for eternal beings? Plants--do plants possess intelligence? The fallen angels--were they biological beings sharing a DNA profile similar to our own, and were the biblical giants and mutants a result of their actions? Greek mythology--is so-called Greek mythology, in fact, Greek history?

In this spellbinding new collection, Charlotte Higgins reinterprets some of the most enduring stories of all time. Here are myths of the creation, of Heracles and Theseus and Perseus, the Trojan war and its origins and aftermaths, tales of Thebes and Argos and Athens. There are stories of love and desire, adventure and magic, destructive gods, helpless humans, fantastical creatures, resourceful witches and the origins of birds and animals.

One day while sitting around the dinner table with his family, Victor Briggs’s Uncle Tim told him that on a visit to Hawaii, he had met an Indigenous Hawaiian Elder who told him a story. A long time ago, Indigenous Australian seafarers had sailed to Hawaii on the trade winds.

In Matthew 24:4-5, Jesus Christ warned His disciples to not be deceived, For many will come in My name saying I am the Christ. In this volume, the author examines both ancient and modern heresies that fit this warning that Jesus gave. He also demonstrates how modern archaeology has undermined the higher critics of the 19th and 20th centuries who claimed that very little could be known about the Jesus of history. In making this argument he demolishes the false dichotomy that was created between the Christ of faith and the Jesus of history. Finally, he demonstrates why the biblical accounts ...