Mistranslated Myths Of Nomadic Desert Shepherd Tribe Taken At Face Value | The Onion
By Daniel Miessler on March 14th, 2010: Tagged as Religion
Paul Browning, a professor of Middle Eastern history at Columbia University, examines one of the ancient parchment scrolls whose content is being taken literally by a surprising number of people.
“I was at my wits’ end over what to do about my failing marriage,” Reuss said. “Marjorie and I thought about counseling, therapy, even divorce. In the end, though, I got the help I needed from a book of stories inscribed by an itinerant Middle Eastern shepherd many millennia ago.”
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