1000 BCE to 500 CE PERSIAN EMPIRE and JUDAISM (2 of 2) The Persian Empire and Judaism Persians Conquer and free the Hebrew captives | Jerusalem under the Persians and the Jewish Priesthood Cyrus Conquers and frees Hebrew Captives Alongside the Mede people south of the Caspian Sea, was another Indo-European people: the Persians. The […]
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Captives put together the Hebrew Bible part one 5*
1000 BCE to 500 CEPERSIAN EMPIRE and JUDAISM (1 of 2) With their defeat of Judah and the scattering of Judah’s people at the end of the 600s BCE, Babylonians took some of Judah’s priests back to Babylon with them as captives – to be known as the Babylonian Captivity. The temple that Solomon had […]
Michael David Magee – Persian History 5*
The Medes and Persians had roamed slowly over several hundred years from the steppes to the Iranian plateau but they had been preceded 1000 years before by earlier bands of Aryans who had found an opportunity to advance into the near east when the Sumerian Empire staggered just before Hammurabi, the Amorite, steadied the central […]
The Great Human Migration – By Guy Gugliotta 5*
Why humans left their African homeland 80,000 years ago to colonize the world Christopher Henshilwood (in Blombos Cave) dug at one of the most important early human sites partly out of proximity—it’s on his grandfather’s property. (Centre for Development Studies, University of Bergen, Norway) Seventy-seven thousand years ago, a craftsman sat in a cave in […]
Human origins: Out of Africa Ian Tattersall 5*
Biological Sciences PERSPECTIVE Article Info & Metrics PDF Abstract Our species, Homo sapiens, is highly autapomorphic (uniquely derived) among hominids in the structure of its skull and postcranial skeleton. It is also sharply distinguished from other organisms by its unique symbolic mode of cognition. The fossil and archaeological records combine to show fairly clearly that […]
New Research Confirms ‘Out Of Africa’ Theory Of Human Evolution Date: 5*
Source: University Of Cambridge Summary: New research confirms the “Out Of Africa” hypothesis that all modern humans stem from a single group of Homo sapiens who emigrated from Africa 2,000 generations ago and spread throughout Eurasia over thousands of years. These settlers replaced other early humans (such as Neanderthals), rather than interbreeding with them. Share: […]
The Adam and Eve myth – -MyNews24 5*
The story of Adam and Eve forms the basis for the Christian doctrine of original sin: “Sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all men sinned,” said the Apostle Paul in his letter to the Romans. The concept that man is born […]
THE RISE AND FALL OF ADAM AND EVE By Stephen Greenblatt
2017/10/06/books/review/rise-and-fall-of-adam-and-eve-stephen-greenblatt.html[/embed]Greenblatt writes that the Genesis narratives of the Creation and Flood were written in contradistinction to the Babylonian narratives they resemble, to assert and preserve Hebrew religious culture. The changes made are profound. In the “Enuma Elish,” the Mesopotamian origin story, warfare among the gods ends in penal servitude for the losing side. They weary […]
What happens to the theological underpinnings of original sin and redemption without a real, flesh-and-blood Adam and Eve? SERIOUS BULLISH ..BUT INFORMATIVE
Please tell us specifically how you handle the question of original sin. If God chose to create organisms, specifically mankind, through millions of years of evolution, what happens to the theological underpinnings of original sin and redemption without a real, flesh-and-blood Adam and Eve? Panelist Responses: < back to intro page Peacocke I think many […]
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve by Stephen Greenblatt review – how a myth was exposed
This thrilling work charts the slow process, from Augustine to Milton to Darwin, by which the Genesis story became no longer tenable The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man (1615) by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens. Photograph: Alamy When they were young, my children reflected on where they came from. […]