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BAR Mar/Apr 2005

The contents list of the latest issue of Biblical Archaeology Review (BAR) has been posted online with the usual short ‘tasters’ available for the featured content. This month you’ll find articles on divination in Babylonia, the controversy over museums displaying looted treasures and yet another update on the ‘Finds or Fakes’ debate. On the final subject, BAR also has the ‘James Ossuary’ fraud inditement sheet available for download (PDF).

Also available at the moment is the latest issue of Archaeology Odyssey. In this issue you’ll find stories on ancient WMD’s, the elaborate tombs of Egyptian queens, and how Greek art influenced Indian constructions.

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  1. What is exorcism?
    Last evening I watched a show about the said subject. Nothing was really explained about the activity at all. What power{?} do we have to force demi God like beings out of a human body? Is it really possible or true? Please explain!

    1. Demi-gods?
      The explanation of possessing entities as being a ‘devil’ and what a ‘devil’ is are kind of blurred in these modern times.

      ‘Devils’ should be better known as ‘evil spirits’. In the English language, the word spirit is also associated with the dead. It is so in many languages as well although confusion prevented from having a proper categorization made of ‘classes of spirits’ and other forms of egregorious energies generally invisible to the eyes.

      Possession I would say has more to do with the dead than some semi-god like entities. Since the dead are deprived of self-spirit, the contact with the source being severed at the time of death, the living who benefit from that contact technically have ascendancy over the dead, and that through their verb.

      This means that the dead have no choice but to acquiesce to the orders of the living who has enough self-spirit energy to command.

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