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2 days ago · The Septuagint, also called the LXX (or Seventy), was also the version of the Bible that the early Christians primarily relied on — both in Greek and then in Latin translation — until Protestants returned to the Masoretic Hebrew in the 16 th century. Even today, it is the version exclusively used by the Eastern Orthodox churches.
Oct 5, 2024 · Greater Adria existed around 240 million years ago during the Triassic period. It was located in the Tethys Ocean, which separated the supercontinents of Laurasia and Gondwana. The continent was about the size of Greenland. Greater Adria started to break apart around 140 million years ago.
6 days ago · Edom, ancient land bordering ancient Israel, in what is now southwestern Jordan, between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba. The Edomites probably occupied the area about the 13th century bce. Though closely related to the Israelites (according to the Bible, they were descendants of Esau), they had.
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Sep 28, 2024 · Toward the end of the 11th century B.C.E., they began establishing colonies in the west—in Cyprus, Sicily, Sardinia, Malta, southern Spain and northern Africa. They soon had created an empire for themselves. But unlike other empires forged by war, this was an empire built on trade.
1 day ago · During the 2nd millennium BC, Ancient Egyptian texts use the term "Canaan" to refer to an Egyptian-ruled colony, whose boundaries generally corroborate the definition of Canaan found in the Hebrew Bible, bounded to the west by the Mediterranean Sea, to the north in the vicinity of Hamath in Syria, to the east by the Jordan Valley, and to the ...
Sep 20, 2024 · The Israelites occupied and conquered Palestine, or Canaan, beginning in the late 2nd millennium bce, or perhaps earlier; and the Bible justifies such occupation by identifying Canaan with the Promised Land, the land promised to the Israelites by God.
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6 days ago · King David’s Judah Found? By: Nathan Steinmeyer. Despite King David’s prominence in the Hebrew Bible, little archaeological evidence has been directly linked to the early years of the Kingdom of Judah.
