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13 hours ago · It is mentioned in the Bible in 1 Kings 5:18, Psalm 83:7 and in Ezekiel 27:9. Today the port is called Jubayl (جُبَيْل) in Arabic. However, the Greeks came to call the port Βύβλος because of its trade in papyrus. Or some people think it was the other way round, and the word for paper came from the name of the port.
13 hours ago · Traditionally the colonists came from Pylos where Poseidon was the principal god of the city. The god had a famous temple near the mountain Mycale. The month Poseidaon is the month of the winter-storms. The name of the month was used in Ionic territories, in Athens, in the islands of the Aegean and in the cities of Asia Minor.
13 hours ago · The Bible portrays Israel and Judah as the successors of an earlier United Kingdom of Israel, although its historicity is disputed. [31] [32] Historians and archaeologists agree that the northern Kingdom of Israel existed by ca. 900 BCE [1] : 169–195 [33] and that the Kingdom of Judah existed by ca. 700 BCE. [2]
13 hours ago · Terminology. The term "Zionism" is derived from the word Zion (Hebrew: ציון, romanized: Tzi-yon), a hill in Jerusalem, widely symbolizing the Land of Israel. Throughout eastern Europe in the late 19th century, numerous grassroots groups promoted the national resettlement of the Jews in their homeland, as well as the revitalization and cultivation of the Hebrew language.
13 hours ago · : 87 However, "the real impetus of the attack on homosexuality did not come from the church." [4] : 87 [94] : xviii The Fourth Lateran council reduced those penalties, and though Gregory IX (1145–1241) ordered the Dominicans to root out homosexuality from the territory that later became the nation of Germany , a century earlier, the kingdom of Jerusalem had spread a legal code ordaining ...
13 hours ago · In Greek mythology, Prometheus (/ p r ə ˈ m iː θ i ə s /; Ancient Greek: Προμηθεύς, [promɛːtʰéu̯s], possibly meaning "forethought") is one of the Titans and a god of fire.
13 hours ago · July 2, 2024 Where did you meet Jesus?
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