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epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-03 | Author:Davies, Jon [Davies, Jon]
It is the case, however, that the wars and massacres inflicted by the Romans on the Jews effected a substantial change in emphasis, if not a major reformulation of Jewish ...
( Category:
New Age, Mythology & Occult
February 15,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-01-25 | Author:Kirsch, Jonathan [Kirsch, Jonathan]
“Constantine is not fighting against us but against the gods,” Licinius announced in advance of the decisive battle, according to Constantine’s chronicler, Eusebius of Caesarea. “Now we shall see who ...
( Category:
General
February 15,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-06-29 | Author:Pagels, Elaine [Pagels, Elaine]
Tacitus interprets Nero’s action in terms of his need for a scapegoat. As yet, the government may have considered the Christians outside Rome—if it considered them at all—too insignificant to ...
( Category:
Christianity
February 15,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-12-28 | Author:Charles Freeman [Freeman, Charles]
HERE COULD HAVE BEEN FEW BACKDROPS MORE CONDUCIVE TO intellectual creativity than the great city of Alexandria. Founded by Alexander in 332 BC, Alexandria flourished as the major port of ...
( Category:
Christianity
February 15,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-02-29 | Author:Van Voorst, Robert E.
Table 3 The Contents of the Signs Source in John Fortna gives a brief discussion of the character of SQ.304 It was a written book, as its conclusion, now in ...
( Category:
New Testament
February 15,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Pagels, Elaine [Pagels, Elaine]
Gregory also understood how people suffer through their natural desire for children: There is pain always, whether children are born, or can never be expected; whether they live or die. ...
( Category:
Christianity
February 15,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-18 | Author:Cumont, Franz [Cumont, Franz]
It is also probable that the toilet of the statue was made every day, that its body and head were dressed, as in the Egyptian ritual. We have seen that ...
( Category:
General
February 15,2015 )
mobi, epub |ara | 2014-06-29 | Author:Carrier, Richard [Carrier, Richard]
Two other authors used as ‘evidence’ for a historical Jesus provide no evidence for a historical Jesus. The first of these is Suetonius; the second, Thallus.103 As for Thallus, I ...
( Category:
New Testament
February 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:Satlow, Michael L [Satlow, Michael L]
And you know that we have separated from the mass of the people . . . and from mingling with them in these matters and from being in contact with ...
( Category:
Christianity
February 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-04-16 | Author:Komarnitsky, Kris D. [Komarnitsky, Kris D.]
If the ascension tradition arose in order to explain why the appearances stopped after a short time in the early Christian community, the reason an extra-mental Jesus does not appear ...
( Category:
Christianity
February 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2006-01-31 | Author:Finkelstein, Israel & Silberman, Neil Asher [Finkelstein, Israel]
CREATING THE SOLOMONIC MYTH The stories of Solomon in the Bible are uniquely cosmopolitan. Foreign leaders are not enemies to be conquered or tyrants to be suffered; they are equals ...
( Category:
General
February 15,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-12-31 | Author:R. Howard Bloch [Bloch, R. Howard]
Fragment of textile from Oseberg, Norway, buried ca. A.D. 950 © MUSEUM OF CULTURAL HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF OSLO, NORWAY Unlike the Bayeux Tapestry, the Oseberg textile contains no writing and ...
( Category:
England
February 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-30 | Author:Kinzer, Stephen [Kinzer, Stephen]
8 THE SELF-INTOXICATED PRESIDENT Rarely has a head of state anticipated a visit to the United States as eagerly as President Sukarno of Indonesia. American history fascinated him. As a ...
( Category:
Executive Branch
February 15,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-12-17 | Author:Dante Alighieri
[395] Duke of Athens: Theseus, instructed by Ariadne, daughter of Pasiphaë and Minos, how to outwit the Minotaur, entered the labyrinth in the character of a victim, slew the monster, ...
( Category:
European
February 13,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-06-08 | Author:The Evolution of God [God, The Evolution of]
Chapter Thirteen How Jesus Became Savior For many Christians, the word “Jesus” is virtually synonymous with the word “savior.” God sent his son so that, as the New Testament puts ...
( Category:
World
February 13,2015 )
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