Geoff Bagley wrote:
> Though I generally 'lurk' on this list, I thought members might be
> interested in an article in today's Daily Telegraph (England) as it shows
> the thought processes and methodology of peple who are attacking in the
> received status quo in another area of history/thought
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> King Arthur was really a Russian, say Slavs
> By Marcus Warren in Moscow
>
> TO the alarm of Russian intellectuals, a new Slavocentric history of the
> world that suggests Britain was once part of a Russian empire is attracting
> growing numbers of converts.
> The history, known as "New Chronology", rejects orthodox dating and makes a
> welter of fantastic claims, including that King Arthur was a Russian prince
> and that the early King Henrys were known as Khan Rex. Its supporters go
> further and combine the classical and medieval periods into a catch-all
> grand theory of Byzantine and Russian cultural might.
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It is "another area of history/thought" but there are interesting
similarities between this and
both British Israelitism and "apparent age" arguments.
Shalom,
George
George L. Murphy
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
"The Science-Theology Interface"
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