History Forum / General / Ancient History / February 2005

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4294943.stm
A palaeontologist is proposing treating manuscripts as the
"fossil remains" of populations of manuscripts, in order to
estimate the number in circulation and how it varied with

Among all interesting things that Kalm noted is one story a liutenant at
Fort St. Frederique told him.
Swedish text:
"Benrangel af en elephant har man för några år tillbaka funnit här i Cannada

I've scanned the English translation of Jerome's Commentary on Daniel,
and placed it online at:
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers#jerome
The whole text is public domain: please feel free to take copies, put

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   You who have spoken in tongues with the Holy Spirit of God and have been
called
into the ministry can ask God what kind of ministry He has given you.   Call
on the holy name of the Lord Jesus, and pray, God in the name of Jesus.   We

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  In 7/83  I took a Conflict  Management course where they  gave us a
paper  describing conflict resolution  amongst Lebanese  clans.  Clans
exacted  retribution  but  also  kept  their members  in  line.   More
recently I read  about similar systems in people  further north, where

I have put online two Babylonian documents on the Hellenistic chronology
of Babylon: the so-called Babylonian King List and the Uruk King List.
They don't offer very special information (most of it has already found
its way to handbooks), but the Uruk King List mentions a mysterious ...

Maybe the following link is of some interest
http://www.adnkronos.com/IGNDispacci/20050216/ADN20050216115550.htm
Excavators have identified the sarcophagus (no doubt late ancient or
early medieval) of Paul, in the basilica of Saint Paul outside the Walls

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Does anybody knows something about the ancient greek(?) city of
Termessos near Antalya/Turkey? I am searching for knowledge and material
about this city.
Thanks and kind regards.

Findings reveal presence of Phoenicians in Macedonia from the 7th
Century B.C.
Athens, 11/2/2005 (ANA)
New data on the presence of the Phoenicians in the ports and the trade

   I was telling my little story of the preacher who had a store front
church
at his house, and he also worked in the daytime for the trash collection.
One of the usual angels was there and God came in too.   When I finished my

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