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Ariel Sabar

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Ariel Sabar, who was born in New York City, won the National Book Critics Circle Award, for his first book, My Father's Paradise. He is an award-winning former staff writer for the Baltimore Sun, Christian Science Monitor, and Providence Journal. His work has also appeared in the New York Times toon meer Magazine, Washington Monthly, and Boston Globe, among many other publications. He has lectured on creative writing at Brown, Georgetown, and The George Washington University. toon minder
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Geboortedatum
1971
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
USA
Geboorteplaats
New York, New York, USA
Woonplaatsen
Washington, D.C., USA
Relaties
Sabar, Yona (father)
Korte biografie
Ariel Sabar's first book won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Times Sunday Magazine, Boston Globe, Washington Monthly, Mother Jones, and other publications. He is an award-winning former staff writer for the Baltimore Sun, Christian Science Monitor, and Providence (RI) Journal. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Brown University and teaches creative writing at The George Washington University. [from arielsabar.com]

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Beautiful story

I love to read history (that matters). I fully realize that the events of the past are just that - events of the past; they don't change the present but they do help us better understand the present. I also enjoyed reading about a boy (now a man) reuniting with his father.
As a follower of Jesus, who spoke Aramaic, I was very interested in learning about the nuances of his language and the culture of the Kurdish Jews who seemed to hold fast to some of the same lifestyle.… (meer)
 
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KeithK999 | 41 andere besprekingen | Dec 3, 2023 |
This is a stunningly well-written examination of the found “gospel of Jesus’s wife”, a fragment of papyrus thought to describe Mary Magdalene as that wife.
Sabar’s lengthy investigations and interviews for magazines like the Smithsonian and Atlantic make me want to run out and subscribe to them because this long form journalism is what we need now.
In figuring out the story behind the fragment, he travels to Europe and various places in the US. It’s exhaustive, his research, but he presents it here in extremely readable prose. I honestly couldn’t put it down, 300 pages plus...
Some eye-opening findings here, from academic hijinks to whatever it is going on in Florida. (Whew!). The close, almost incestuous, links between members of faculty in universities gives one pause about the veracity of any research.
Which is why books like this one need to be supported and published. And why double-blinded studies and publications should exist.
In this time of flexible truths and the altering of news, this highlights how easily people can act to promote an agenda. We are a gullible species...
So worth a read!
Ps: this is neither a pro- nor anti-religion book. It is an anti-flimflammery book. Safe for either side to read without getting feathers ruffled. Should be assigned reading for journalism students though it might drive them to despair about jobs in Twitter news...
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Dabble58 | 6 andere besprekingen | Nov 11, 2023 |
This was a very enjoyable read. Each story was sweetly romantic without being overly sappy. If there was was drawback to the stories it was that they all ended so abruptly. There was the meeting, then the courtship. But once the agreement to marry was made the narration just stopped. To make up for these abrupt endings the author include a chapter at the end of the book detailing how each couple made out with the rest of their lives. I would have rather these were weaved into each chapter rather than adding one to cover them all at the end of the book.… (meer)
 
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kevinkevbo | 1 andere bespreking | Jul 14, 2023 |
A stupendous book, building on Sabar's Atlantic article on the same topic. I was riveted from first to last. Along with a deep dive into the nature of the forgery and its perpetrator, Sabar also provides as readable an account of the gnoticism and the "gnostic gospels" I've read, too.
 
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JBD1 | 6 andere besprekingen | Jun 25, 2023 |

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