Every seven years, the Jewish people in Israel cease working the land and rediscover what all that work was really about. Just as Shabbat gives us the chance to take stock of what we are accomplishing all week, shemittah does the same on a national level. Every seventh year, the ploughs ...
Excellence is generally defined as an “outstanding merit or quality” (“Excellence”,n. d.); the corresponding adjective excellent as “extremely good, of very high quality” (Summers,2003, p. 350). The specific understanding of excellence at an individual level, however, diverges into distinc...
"You are not to misuse the name of the LORD your God, because the LORD will not leave the one who misuses his name unpunished.Majority Standard BibleYou shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain....
Solomon's temple and palace have disappeared long since. But his wise sayings are preserved in many languages and read by many people all around the world.There are thousands of buildings now in the world that would make his palace,if still standing,look like a child's toy house.But no o...
the myth, obtaining this girdle wasthe ninth of Heracles’ Twelve Labors, and the quest brought him face to face with the fierce Amazon queen. The tale reflects the Greeks’ awe—and fear—of these warrior women, whose strength and defiance challenged the very fabric of their patriarchal ...
In Greek mythology,Adoniswas the god of beauty and desire. Originally, he was a god worshipped in the area of Phoenicia (modern – day Lebanon), but was later adopted by the Greeks. Who did Zeus really love? Zeus fell in love withIoand seduced her under a thick blanket of cloud to ...
Who was Hilarianus in ancient Carthage? How did the Sumerians worship their gods? Who were the Carthaginians? Who used ziggurats? What is an interesting fact about the Hittites? How did the ancient Egyptians worship their gods? Who were the Ancient Greeks? Who were Smendes and Pindjem in ...
There have been reports that, in a 2015 Fox News broadcast, she called Greeks "freeloaders" who needed to be punished like an untrained pet after they challenged a third bailout deal from the country's creditors during its financial crisis....
Throughout the ages, people have attempted to understand, explain and/or categorize the similarities and differences of human behavior. The Ancient Greeks labeled individuals using the four designations of sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic and melancholic. The American Plains Indians categorized people accord...
Thousands of prisoners — Jews, Americans, Greeks and Italians among them — were sent to Lübeck Bay. The Cap Arcona arrived on April 14, 1945, two weeks before Nazi leader Adolf Hitler killed himself and three weeks before the end of the war in Europe. It was anchored about 2 miles of...