The Family Altar

Altar and Table: A phenomenology of the surgeon-priest

I will never forget the first night I stood alone beside the operating table as the only surgeon in the room. I was beginning my fourth year of residency. Two patients from the same car wreck arrived simultaneously. Both were unstable. Both required urgent laparotomy. The sickest patient went to OR 9 with the attending surgeon. The other patient went with me to OR 6. The preliminaries were the ...

Pseudepigraphic writings: Letters—Embassy—Speech from the Altar—Decree

HIPPOCRATES, Pseudepigraphic writings: Letters-Embassy-Speech from the AltarDecree, ed. and transl. with an Introduction by Wesley D. Smith, Studies in Ancient Medicine 2, Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1990, pp. x, 133 (90-04-09290-0). In The Hippocratic Tradition (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1979) Wesley D. Smith investigated the origin both of our image of Hippocrates, Father of Medicine, and of...

Murine "model" monotheism: an iconoclast at the altar of mouse.

A Translation of the Arkalochori Axe and the Malia Altar Stone

This paper presents a translation of the Arkalochori Axe and the Malia Altar Stone inscriptions, which are some of the longest known Cretan Hieroglyph inscriptions together with the Phaistos Disk. The translations are checked using two consistency criteria. First, a synoptic transliteration is used that aligns symbols from several scripts that are evolutionarily related. When the phonetic value...

Skeletons Under the Altar: Authoritarian Stereotypes and Voting for Evangelicals in Latin America∗

Evangelical Christians are a rapidly growing share of the population in most Latin American countries, yet there is substantial cross-national variation in this religious minority’s involvement and success with electoral politics. This paper examines one possible explanation for the electoral success or failure of evangelical politicians—the effect on voting behavior of their ties to former dic...