Immanuel velikovsky

I read some back in the 1960s & 1970s, even had a couple.
I traded them for good books, like Science Fiction
(which were at least honest - all the books I have
mentioned are FICTION).

Anyway, Velikovsky read a lot of old books (way
older than the Bible). He found phrases and
sometimes whole sentences that shows a common
happening. He only wrote one book, but he rewrote it
several times.

Here is Ed's short summary of stuff he read over 30 years
ago:

When the planet Venus came out of planet Jupiter,
(leaving the famous Red Spot visible even today)
it came so near earth a few times that it:
1. provided the pillar that guided Moses & the children
of Israel
2. provided the weird days in Joshua.
3. knocked the earth out of a 360-day-year
into the current orbit of 365¼-day year

Vel still provides more of the hoaxes of
snopes.com (Urban Legends) than any other
single person

I think it would be a read worth the trip, unless
you are trying to justify your favorite conspiracy theory.
(I used to be a conspiracy theorist, but books like
Vel's books convinced me conspiracies are way overrated )

 

Reading Velikovsky is like dumster diving: one finds lots more used diapers than dollars.

 

Let us do it here.

My recommendation:

If you have a NIV (New International Version). Read it in 2008.
If you don't have a NIV buy a TNIV (Today's New International Version). read it in 2008.

This reading of an inerrant copy God's Written Word writtten
for the 20th Century English speaker (NIV) or for the 21st Century English speaker (TNIV) will do your soul much more good than studying the brain flatulence of Vel.

(flatulence3 = windy or empty in speech; pompous; pretentious)

TNIV > Vel