Archaeologist William G. Dever argues (2005) that magic is "precisely what religion is, or at least was, however much that may offend modern sensibilities."
Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From? is a book by American biblical scholar and archaeologist William G. Dever.
He has been scathing in his dismissal of "minimalists" who deny any historical value to the Biblical accounts.
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The Biblical narratives about Abraham, Moses, Joshua and Solomon probably reflect some historical memories of people and places, but the 'larger than life' portraits of the Bible are unrealistic and contradicted by the archaeological evidence.
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In 1882, he set up a practice in New York with Hugo Kafka and William G. Steinmetz, later establishing Alfred B. Mullett & Sons to practice with his two elder sons.
Baumol's cost disease (also known as the Baumol Effect) is a phenomenon described by William J. Baumol and William G. Bowen in the 1960s.
A student of Canadian James Naismith, William G. Morgan, wanted a less energetic game for older sportsmen in 1895.
He appeared to lose a 1993 election for the 2nd senatorial district for the Pennsylvania Senate, but a federal judge declared him the winner of that election after finding that the campaign of William G. Stinson had engaged in election fraud.
Rich and famous oilmen such as Marland, Frank Phillips, L. E. Phillips, Waite Phillips, and William G. Skelly stood in the shade of the Elm tree and bid in the auctions.
"Get to the bottom of this immediately. This is not acceptable," Mr. Cambone said in a handwritten note on June 26, 2004, to his top deputy, Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin.
Henry Margenau and William G. Pollard, by his own admission, were two writers who influenced him as a science student in the 1960s.
Founded at the suggestion of Detroit mayor William G. Thompson, the Wolverines played the first game of major league baseball in Detroit on May 2, 1881, in front of 1,286 fans.
Key works in the cultural economics as such were those of Baumol and Bowen (Performing Arts, The Economic Dilemma, 1966), of Gary Becker on addictive goods, and of Alan Peacock (Public Choice).
William Andrew Leonard was consecrated as the Fourth Bishop of Ohio in 1889 and was responsible, with financial backing from William G. Mather, for the construction of Trinity Cathedral, completed in 1907.
In 1900, together with Burton E. Green (1868-1965), Charles A. Canfield (1848-1913), Max Whittier (1867–1928), William F. Herrin (1854-1927), Henry E. Huntington (1850-1927), William G. Kerckhoff (1856–1929), W.S. Porter and Frank H. Balch, known as the Amalgated Oil Company, he purchased Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas from Henry Hammel and Andrew H. Denker and renamed it Morocco Junction.
He became a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1876 and a founding associate of the predecessor firm of Alfred B. Mullett & Sons, with Alfred B. Mullett and William G. Steinmetz in 1882.
He also appeared a few times on Fifteen to One in 1995 and 1996, and was a notable witness to the famous outtake where host William G. Stewart dropped his question cards whilst explaining the rules of the first round in 1995.
On June 2, 1975, Lindemer was appointed by Michigan Governor William G. Milliken to the Michigan Supreme Court to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Justice Thomas M. Kavanagh.
The Stanton Guard was organized at Detroit, Michigan in April 1862 by Captain Grover S. Wormer and mustered in on May 10, to serve as guards over General William G. Harding, Washington Barrow and Judge Joseph C. Guild, three Confederate sympathizers from Nashville, TN sent as prisoners to the fort on Mackinac Island.
Anderson Society: William G. Anderson D.O., first African-American member of the American Osteopathic Association Board of Trustees, former President of the AOA, and leader of the Albany Movement.
William G. Fargo, a New York Central freight clerk at Auburn, N.Y., and Henry Wells, a leather worker at Batavia, N.Y., organized Wells Fargo & Co.
The team appealed, first to William G. Bramham, president of the National Association, then to Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Commissioner of Baseball, but the ruling stood.
William G. Sebold (1899–1970?), World War II double agent against Germany in the U.S.
William G. Parrett - Former CEO of Deloitte Touche, Current Chairman and Senior Partner of Deloitte and Touche
The producer of these programs, William G. Stewart, had earlier produced a pilot episode for a UK situation comedy series based on a group of tea ladies and resurrected the concept as The Tea Ladies in Australia.
William G. Milliken State Park and Harbor– formerly the Tri-centennial State Park in Michigan
William G. Bowen (born 1933), former President of Princeton University
William G. Conley (1866–1940), an American politician who served as Governor of West Virginia
In 1900, together with Burton E. Green (1868-1965), Charles A. Canfield (1848-1913), Max Whittier (1867–1928), Frank H. Buck (1887-1942), Henry E. Huntington (1850-1927), William G. Kerckhoff (1856–1929), W.S. Porter and Frank H. Balch, known as the Amalgated Oil Company, he purchased Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas from Henry Hammel and Andrew H. Denker and renamed it Morocco Junction.
After obtaining an undergraduate degree from Alabama State College for Negroes (now Alabama State University) in 1949, Anderson attended Des Moines University in Des Moines, Iowa, and received his certification in surgery.
Bassler was appointed to the New Jersey Superior Court in 1988 by then-governor Thomas Kean (R).
Bray was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-second and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1951-January 3, 1975).
He served as Bishop of Greensburg from 1960 to 1987.
Following the election of George W. Bush, Curlin praised the President's opposition to abortion, saying, "He gives us hope. That's what's important today. You felt under the former administration that there was no hope as far as the sanctity of life issue."
They were the first Allied Army Unit to pierce the famed German Hindenburg Line of defense.
William Garland Higgs (born c. 1952) is an American businessman and co-founder of Mustang Engineering.
By this time he had begun to publish his compositions, and in 1916 his ballet music By Candlelight was performed in concert at the Savoy Theatre, London.
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In the late 1920s, he joined the newly formed Australian Broadcasting Company, the forerunner of the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC).
Born in Australia, he earned a degree in chemical technology before attending Avondale College, where he met his wife Nolene Johnsson.
As President of the South Coast Land Company, he also helped found the city of Del Mar, California.
He served as chairman of the Committee on Claims (Fifty-first Congress).
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Laidlaw was elected as a Republican to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses (March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1891).
C-130 Herculess under his command were the first aircraft into Hanoi to prepare for returning prisoners of war, and he commanded the homecoming operation at Clark Air Base under the direction of the commander in chief, Pacific Command.
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He participated in the planning and execution of numerous missions: complex airlift efforts for resupply of Cambodia; evacuation of Phnom Penh (Operation Eagle Pull) and Saigon (Operation Frequent Wind); Operation Babylift; Operation New Life; and the Mayaguez operation.
Roll received a Ph.D. in psychology from Lund University in 1989 for a thesis entitled, "This World or That: An Examination of Parapsychological Findings Suggestive of the Survival of Human Personality After Death".
After Head of the Class ended appeared in many more television shows such as Pacific Station, Homefront, In the House and Going to California, and in films such as In the Line of Fire, Space Jam and Thank Heaven.
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In 1986, Schilling was cast in the role of Doctor Harold Samuels in the American television sitcom Head of the Class, alongside Howard Hesseman and later Billy Connolly.
William G. Sebold (Wilhelm Georg Debrowski; 10 March 1899 in Mülheim, Germany – February 1970 in Walnut Creek, California) was a German spy in the United States during World War II, who became a double agent for the FBI.
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Duquesne had been a spy for Germany since World War I; before that, he had been a Boer spy in the Second Boer War.
He remains active in the Orange County political scene, primarily as an elder statesman of Orange County politics.
Stewart is a long-standing supporter of the campaign to return the Elgin Marbles to Greece.
After his federal appointment Judge Young sentenced Richard Reid, better known as the shoe bomber, to life in prison.
William G. Tanner (1930–2007), American academic and Southern Baptist pastor