So you can go from Jerusalem to Corinth and it’s not a big deal. It’s all one empire. When not long before those would’ve been two separate countries with maybe not a common language or a common culture or a common way of navigating that, people might’ve looked at you with ...
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Dr. Hudson: Yes. They didn’t want to drive down the living standards of labor because they assumed that the wages were basically the cost of living. But they wanted to drive down the cost of living that was what was pushing wages up. At that time, it was the cost of food that was...
Their capital was Byblos. By 1000 BC, the cities of Tyre and Sidon had taken center stage. The Phoenicians were conquered by Cyrus the Great in 539 BC. 49. Kingdom of Israel and Judah According to the Bible, the Kingdom of Israel began with King Saul around 1020 BC, with Jerusalem ...
37 contains a passage in which Jesus likens his care for the people of Jerusalem to a hen caring for her brood. This image, had it caught on, could have completely changed the course of Christian iconography, which has been dominated instead by depictions of the Good Shepherd. The rooster...
Vespasian, as Emperor, immediately placed his son Titus in command of the War in Judea. When Jerusalem was razed in 70 AD, Vespasian enacted the Fiscus Judaicus, a tax upon Jews which went to support the worship of Jupiter Capitolinus, as punishment to the Jewish People for their rebellion...
29 ·How terrible it will be for [L Woe to] you, Ariel [C another name for Jerusalem, perhaps meaning either “lion” or “altar hearth”; v. 2], the city where David ·camped [lived; settled; or besieged; C David first conquered, then lived in the city; 2 Sam. 5:6–...
In what’s been called a “psychological breakthrough,” Sadat became thefirst Arab leader to visit Israelin November 1977, touring Jerusalem and addressing Israel’s parliament. “You want to live with us in this part of the world,”Sadat declared. “In all sincerity, I tell you, we welc...
messenger Jerusalem!Raise it; don’t be afraid;say to the cities of Judah,“Here is your God!” Isaiah 40:9 Mark 1:4 says that the prophet John (the Baptist) was in the wilderness “calling for people.” To be an advent prophet for Jesus is to speak up. No good advent prophet ...
1099:Europeans conquering Jerusalem learn the details of sugar production, which was a profitable business in the city at the time. When the soldiers return home, they bring sugar with them, sparking widespread demand across Europe. Venice had been trading with the Muslim world prior to the Crus...