extraordinary origins of everyday things

Origins of Profound Things'' requires far more careful checking than Mr. It is fearfully clear that anything you would care to believe in ''Sacred

Panati shows that he believes Timothy was the author of I Timothy,Ī book that (as almost everybody knows) purports to be a letter to Timothy from the apostle Paul (modern scholars gravely doubt that the real Paul wrote it). Morgan! Finally, with breathtaking ignorance, Mr.

The correct wording (''The love of money is the root of all evil'') to a cynical wisecrack by J. This is a popular error, but not a forgivable one in a writer with access to Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Buy Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things by Charles Panati, 463 pages, softbound in Quezon City,Philippines. Of all evil'' is directly attributable in that very form to I Timothy 6:9-10. Panati tells us that the expression ''Money is the root

The pleasure of such superiority is now available to anyone who has actually read the New Testament. Panati's books have sometimes blamed him for silly mistakes on subjectsĬoncerning which they themselves were well informed. There's a lot of instructive stuff here it had not occurred to me before that when I Chronicles attributes to Satan the temptation of King David to take a census of Israel -Ī provocation II Samuel attributes to God - we are well on the way to the quasi dualism so conspicuous in the New Testament. Hy are there 12 days of Christmas? What are the seven deadly sins, and who says so? Why don't Jews kneel to pray? Charles Panati, the author of ''Theīrowser's Book of Beginnings'' and ''Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things,'' is eager to raise and then to answer these and a great many more interesting questions about world religionsĪnd why their adherents believe and behave as they do.

Extraordinary origins of everyday things