KRONOS

A Journal of Interdisciplinary Synthesis

Vol. VIII, No. 1 Fall 1982

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

2	Contributors
3	Electric Discharge as the Source of Solar Radiant Energy (Part I)	Ralph E. Juergens
15	The Listing by Months: An Ancient Study of the Disappearances of Venus	Lynn E. Rose and Raymond C. Vaughan
38	On Comets, Comet-Like Luminous Apparitions and Meteors (Concluded)	Ilse Fuhr
53	The Tower of Babel and the Confusion of Tongues	James E. Strickling
63	Jupiter - God of Abraham (Part III)	Dwardu Cardona
78	Hammurabi and the Revised Chronology	Immanuel Velikovsky
85	Science-Fiction and Collective Amnesia: "Dragon's Egg"	Richard J. Jaarsma
92	Vox Populi	Ellenberger, Serjak
96	Special Offer
Cover Photo: The destruction of the Tower of Babel; after an engraving by Cornelius Anthonisz (1499-1533).

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EDITORS

Editor-in-Chief
Lewis M. Greenberg

Executive Editor Warner B. Sizemore

Executive Secretary C. Leroy Ellenberger

Senior Editors
Dwardu Cardona, C. Leroy Ellenberger, David Griffard
C. J. Ransom, Lynn E. Rose, Raymond C. Vaughan, and Roger W. Wescott

Associate Editors
Robert W. Bass, Frederic Jueneman, Shane H. Mage,
Earl R. Milton, Bernard Newgrosh, A. Mann Paterson,
Jan N. Sammer, George R. Talbott, and Irving Wolfe

Contributing Editor
Artur Isenberg, Thomas McCreery and Martin Sieff

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