3 Then they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Now let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the Lord our God, or he may strike us with plagues or with the sword.” 4 But the king of Egypt said, “Moses and Aaron, why are you ta...
InThe Bullet That Missed, the Thursday Murder Club is investigating the murder of Bethany Waites, a TV journalist whose car was found at the bottom of a cliff after she’d made a breakthrough in her investigation into a VAT fraud scheme. This brings them into the orbit of Mike Waghorn, ...
Enjoying a life of ease in the court of Egypt’s pharaoh, Moses discovers his Hebrew heritage and, later, God’s expectations of him. He dedicates himself to liberating his people from captivity and — with the aid of plagues and divine intervention — manages to lead them out of Egypt a...
The evidence is that there were several incidents in the Bible of saints being “caught away.” The good news is that God can, and will “catch away” His saints whenever He desires. Praise the Lord. It is not just a one-time event to happen world wide at some future time. We often...
Similar arguments regarding linguistic conservatism as evidence of longer settlement or a vague sense of “oldness” are found throughout the volume (see pp. 1, 57, 71, 81, 136, 162–63, 264, 298, 304). Indeed, this idea of ‘old features’ as ‘conservative’ is fundamental to the ...
The first evidence of lesions compatible with smallpox was found in Egyptian mummies from 1570 to 1085 BC, including the Pharaoh Ramses V, who died in 1156 BC [17,18]. The disease was also described in China in 1122 BC and in Sanskrit medical texts from India around 1500 BC [17,18]....
Restall, Matthew 2001 The People of the Patio: Ethnohistoric Evidence of Yucatec Maya Royal Courts. InRoyal Courts of the Maya, Vol. 2, Takeshi Inomata and Stephen D. Houston, editors, pp. 335–390. Westview Press, Boulder, CO. Restall, Matthew 2003Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest. Oxf...
However, we find no evidence to support a relationship. Our results thus suggest that the demographic patterns may have arisen from endogenous causes. Other approaches do not include the environment as a fundamental cause of the collapse. Through a neo-Platonic view, Tainter considers that ...
It should be noted that the Northern Hemisphere influenza of 1915–1916 was particularly intense in the US [100], but we cannot know whether these viruses were of the pandemic H1N1 type, as we do not have any phylogenetic evidence regarding this possible pandemic H1N1 identity. Additionally, ...