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045 Arabian Bronze Hand 4 Jun 2010

Fri, 4 Jun 10

Life sized bronze hand with writing on the back. Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, explores the religious climate of pre-Islamic Arabia, its wealth of local gods and imported beliefs. The bronze hand is not part of a god, but a gift to a god in a Yemeni hill village. The hand surgeon Jeremy Field considers whether this was the modelled from a real human hand and religious historian Philip Jenkins reflects on what happens to the old pagan gods when a brand new religion sweeps into town.