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trial of JC: 12 angry pharisees

Was Christ condemned to death by the Jews, as tradition has held for so long, or was he really executed by the Romans as a political offender?… The author of Mark endeavors to meet the difficulty by transferring the responsibility … Continue reading

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trial and sedition: tribute money and pay now plan

This triumph must have made the Jewish Revolt very real to the people of Rome; it was designed to render them vividly aware of the gravity of the danger from which the new emperor and his son had delivered them. … Continue reading

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trial and tribulation: May ’68 …A.D.

The trial of Jesus. Was Christ condemned to death by the Jews, as tradition held for so long, or was he really executed by the Romans as a political offender? …. The effect of the Jewish War in 66 A.D. … Continue reading

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i think this might be it

Where is the Ark of the Covenant? Anywhere from Russia to Rochester, and from Croatia to Canada. No one really knows, although the answer is supposed to be found in the Torah, if you know where to look for it. … Continue reading

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the booty sellers: sparatacus complex

Human plunder in the kinds of quantities the ancients were accustomed to created problems for an army on the march. It could become completely bogged down. The Sparatacus complex. In 218 B.C. King Philip V of Macedon invaded Elis in … Continue reading

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the year where it all began

The Year One. Although the accuracy of the date is less than precise, the “year of our Lord” stuck when calculated in the first half of the sixth century by an eastern Greek speaking monk , Dionysius Exiguus, and the … Continue reading

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''PROIBITA'': BOOGIE-WOOGIE BARBARIANS

Rome and its attendant barbarians have come to serve as such comfortingly familiar symbols of qualities with apparently perpetual relevance to human affairs, that no amount of scholarly research or well-intentioned political re-contextualisation is likely entirely to rescue them from … Continue reading

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DUSTUP IN ROME: THEY AGREE TO DISAGREE

“The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she … Continue reading

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SHARPEN YOUR KNIFE & SOFTEN YOUR TONGUE

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s final novel was the ”The Marble Faun” and was inspired and strung together from his notebook that he kept in Rome. The intensity of the subject matter and its interplay between the Jewish and Christian themes within a … Continue reading

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