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Oct.17.2012 The "Ancient Mysteries": Who Was Pythagoras? The Greek mathematician known as Pythagoras lived 500 or more years before Jesus. As a young man, Pythagoras traveled to Egypt and Lebanon where he was initiated into the Phoenicians' Ancient Mysteries. After the destruction of the first Temple in Jerusalem, Pythagoras spent time at a temple in...	Sep.23.2012 Mom & Computers Mom called today. Left a message. Her number comes up as 'Out of Area'. We're suspicious of unidentified, 'out of area' callers. They've proven to be solicitors and marketers. But my wife checked the message and confirmed, "It's your mother." I listened to her message. "Nothing...
Apr.13.2012 The Amazing Babylonians More than four thousand years before the Christian era, the Babylonians were culturing themselves in ways moderns might envy. That long ago, education was provided for both male and female, students studying texts written on clay tablets with a sharp engraving instrument. They studied mathematics,...	Mar.11.2012 What Does Diaspora Mean? Diaspora is the Greek word for “a scattering.” An old dictionary I have, defines Diaspora in two ways. One definition is, “Jews scattered through the Old World after the Exile” and the other is “Jewish Christians of the apostolic age living among the heathen”. Suellen Ocean is the author of...
Mar.09.2012 What Was the Babylonian Exile? Were My Ancestors Jews? History puts a date on the first Diaspora from the Land of Israel, also known as the Babylonian exile, as 586 B.C.E. The Second Diaspora from the Land of Israel came after Christianity took hold. Jews that were not banished from the land of Israel packed up and left on their own accord. This...	Feb.09.2012 What Were the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Full of lush ferns and palm trees, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were built on the roof of the huge palace of the King of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, who reined between 604 to 561 B.C.E. This Babylonian king destroyed Jerusalem and captured the Jews who then refused to bow before his golden image....
Feb.07.2012 Why Did Jesus Speak Aramaic? Over two-thousand-years ago, tribes from the desert and the hills migrated into Assyria (think Babylon). One of the tribes that came in great numbers was the "Syrian Arameans". I guess it was just a numbers game. The masses spoke Aramaic and it became the predominant language across western Asia...	Feb.06.2012 Contemporary Politics ... Ancient Policies As I read about the ancient kingdoms of Sumer, Ur, Babylon, Akkad, etc, it's amazing how world politics don't seem to have changed. Kingdoms that grew strong enough to overpower a larger kingdom did so. Babylon, which was once a glorious kingdom was eventually laid to waste as a "backwater of...