Dr. James Corke-WebsterTranscript47m
If you are rich and suffering from serious illness today, you can afford to call in the best doctors from around the world. Now go back 2000 years, and imagine being ill when mortality rates were much, much worse. What if you heard of a miraculous Palestinian preacher handing out healings? You'd write to him as soon as possible. But would he write back?
Join James Corke-Webster in this stunning talk on the Abgar Legend, the story of the King of Osroene who not only wrote to Jesus asking to be cured but who received a letter – and more – in return. Maybe. Are these letters real? And if not, why were they invented?
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It’s always good to question what we think we know. The Rethinking Collection is a series of Garden Talks by world experts that reexamine the ideas and events that have shaped and continue to shape our world.
1 Rethinking Serendipity: How is luck created?
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2 Did Jesus answer fan mail?
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3 Why is a computer not a good analogy for the brain?
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4 Which mathematical challenges will shape the 21st Century?
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5 Why are our universities getting whiter?
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6 Intro to Catherine de Medici: Why do we love to hate a woman in power?
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7 How do the stories we tell shape who we are?
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8 How do cultures around the world think about property and ownership?
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