epub |eng | 2018-09-16 | Author:Neil MacGregor [MacGregor, Neil]

Artemis dominates her Temple at Ephesus on this silver Roman coin c. 50 CE. Across the ancient world everybody would have recognized the unmistakable, many-breasted Artemis/ Diana, protectoress of Ephesus ...

epub |eng | 2012-08-14 | Author:Ray Comfort

OUTSIDE INFLUENCES Several individuals helped to fuel Hitler’s hatred for the Jewish people and contributed to the rise of anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany. Henry Ford (1863–1947) American automaker Henry Ford ...

azw3 |eng | 2020-04-27 | Author:Bernd U. Schipper [Schipper, Bernd U.]

5.2 Persian Policy from 539 to 333 Neither the variety of forms of Yahwism in the fifth and fourth centuries nor the return of a group of exiles would have ...

epub |eng | | Author:Samuel L. Adams

4 Taxation and the Role of the State Taxation played a major role in the economy of the Second Temple period. Most persons had to participate in the system in ...

epub |eng | 2020-04-12 | Author:Titus M Kennedy

(52) THE LATRINE OF DESECRATION (Iron Age Toilet Seat) Date: 8th century BC Discovered: Jerusalem, Israel Period: Divided Kingdom Keywords: Hezekiah; toilet; latrine; Jehu; desecration; pagan; ritual Bible Passages: 2 ...

epub |eng | 2017-08-10 | Author:Joseph Campbell

Chapter 7 — GREAT ROME: 500 b.c.–500 a.d. I. The Celtic Province Caesar’s Gallic wars, commencing in 58 b.c., opening Europe to the empire of Rome as Pompey’s wars had ...

epub |eng | 2019-11-05 | Author:Brian Godawa [Godawa, Brian]

Chapter 3: The Spiritual World of China Tower of Babel and the Tomb of Qin In the novel Qin: Dragon Emperor of China , reference is made to Chinese oracle ...

epub |eng | 2019-11-06 | Author:Brian Godawa [Godawa, Brian]

Sheol Sheol was the Hebrew word for the underworld.[146] Though the Bible doesn’t contain any narratives of experiences in Sheol, it was nevertheless described as the abode of the dead ...

epub |eng | 2019-12-20 | Author:Eric H. Cline

FIG. 38. Aerial view, looking west, in 1937 (after Loud 1948: frontispiece; courtesy of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago) Of course, it is one thing to sit ...

azw |eng | 2003-09-29 | Author:Iain Provan & V. Philips Long & Tremper Longman III [Provan, Iain]

Was David a Historical Person? Did David exist? Was he historical? Not so long ago, increasing numbers of scholars, though far from a majority, were voicing the opinion that David ...

azw |eng | 2015-10-31 | Author:David A. Fiensy

Byzantine Capernaum (early 4th–early 7th cent. ce) During the first half of the fourth century, Capernaum continued to experience the demographic decline that characterized the rest of the Galilee. Between ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-12-19 | Author:Josephus [Josephus]

epub |eng | 2019-05-28 | Author:Lucy Peppiatt

MASTERS AND HUSBANDS We have three passages relating to husbands and wives in the New Testament: Ephesians 5:21-33, Colossians 3:18-19, and 1 Peter 3:1-7. In each case, wives are addressed ...

epub |eng | 2019-11-19 | Author:N. T. Wright & Michael F. Bird [Wright, N. T.]

epub |eng | 2018-09-03 | Author:Amy L. Balogh [Balogh, Amy L.]

Why “Uncircumcised of Lips” (Exod 6:12, 30) The content and creation language of the opening chapters of Exodus make it clear that the Hebrew people “were fruitful and multiplied” (cf. ...