Compilation of works from Rook Hawkins

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Rook Hawkins is the co-founder of the Rational Response Squad. He is also a historian of classical civilization and the Bible.

Rook Hawkins is currently working on his book, Discovering the Gnostics: A Look at the Evolution of Mystery Cults in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods, due out at the end of 2007 (give or take a month). His book will cover a wide range of issues, from the Jewish condition during the Diaspora, to the historical Jesus quests. The overall goal of his book is to re-examine Christian origins, and prove the motivations behind the Gospel accounts were not to suggest history, but instead were allegorical literature meant to give meaning to a troubling time.

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Please help me get my resources so I can finish my book more quickly.

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"You act ridiculously," said Ion, "to doubt every­thing. For my part, I should like to ask you what you say to those who free possessed men from their terrors by exorcising the spirits so manifestly. I need not discuss this: everyone knows about the Syrian from Palestine, the adept in it, how many he takes in hand who fall down in the light of the moon and roll their eyes and fill their mouths with foam; nevertheless, he restores them to health and sends them away normal in mind, delivering them from their straits for a large fee. When he stands beside them as they lie there and asks : 'Whence came you into his body?' the patient himself is silent, but the spirit answers in Greek or in the language of whatever foreign country he comes from, telling how and whence he entered into the man; whereupon, by adjuring the spirit and if he does not obey, threaten­ing him, he drives him out. Indeed, I actually saw one coming out, black and smoky in color." "It is nothing much," I remarked," for you, Ion, to see that kind of sight, when even the 'forms' that the father of your school, Plato, points out are plain to you, a hazy object of vision to the rest of us, whose eyes are weak." - Lucian, Lover of Lies

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Hi Rook, I don't know my way around this site but I left a message for you at RRS Authors, hope you can find it and it is useful - so long for now, David L. Foster