When the Trojans discovered that the Greeks were gone, believing the war was over, they “joyfully dragged the horse inside the city“. The soldiers from inside the horse emerged and killed the Trojan guards and opened the gates. The Greeks entered the city and killed the sleeping population....
Philo expressly states ("De Legatione ad Caium," § 20) that the large population of Alexandria had many synagogues in various quarters of the city, and he says also (ib.) that when the Alexandrian synagogues were destroyed the same fate was shared by the shields, golden wreaths, stel...
century.Misled doubtless by the tendency to desertion shown by not a few of the Sephardim many evangelicals anticipated the conversion en masse of the Jewish population, and on the initiative of Lewis Way the London Society for the Promotion of Christianity Among the Jews was founded in 1807....
One would assume and correctly there were not Christians among them as that segment of the population has been deceived as to the Israel of both the Old and New Testaments. This sadly is what has occurred in all Western nations. All who call themselves Christians should search for the truth...
In many years of reading hasidic literature, from theoretical mystical tracts to tales and hagiographies, I have never encountered anything remotely like this image of a rebbe testing the thickness of stockings on his own arm, let alone naming a line of women's undergarments after himself. Was...
fromapopulation of lawless migrants intoasedentary people whose livesareorganized around agriculture,autocracy, and monotheism.Although national identity was not Michaelis’sfocal point,nationaland eth-nic categories do feature in his writing.Asopposedtoearlier Enlightenmentlegal interpreters,hecontendedthatthe...
总消太构说 According to Jones,75 percent of the population have a wave or curl in their hair and don't know what to do with it.Men cut theirs short.Women flat-iron theirs to death.When I read through a beauty magazine or take the subway to work,it makes me sad t...
In 1900 the Jewish population of Antwerp was 8,000. At the large synagogue the old Amsterdam Portuguese minhag is followed; but during the exodus of the Russian Jews in the years following 1881 several thousands of them settled in Antwerp, and there erected a number of synagogues and meeting...
Egypt had constantly a large Semitic element of population, especially along the eastern frontier of the Delta (comp. Isa. xix. 18 on five cities speaking the language of Canaan). The Egyptian cities mentioned in the Bible all belong to this part of the country. No (Thebes) and Syene sho...
The contemporary Jewish population is subdivided into three discrete groups based on their long-term location of residence: Middle Eastern (also known as Oriental) Jews, Sephardic Jews and Ashkenazi Jews (AJ). The latter group, which inhabited northern and eastern Europe since the 9th century C....