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The early Christians included men and women, slaves and free people, rich and poor, Jews and Greeks. The first Christians were Jews only. They inhabited the cities of Galilee (a region of Israel). They were poor people, like Jesus, most of them woodworkers. Some were friends of John the Baptist, a great fearless prop... |
1 April 2008
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Nebuchadrezzar (630-562 BC) was the king of Babylon, in Mesopotamia (today's Iraq, the vast fertile region between the river Tiger and Euphrates). He managed to organize a terrible army, endowed with chivalry and war chariots, and conquered a vast empire after destroying the Assyrian empire and laying in ruins t... |
1 April 2008
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1. The Israelite shepherd tribes wandered for centuries through the steppes and deserts of the Middle East until they left the nomad life for an agricultural one when, under the leadership of a man called Joshua, they established into Canaan (the Promised Land). But this happened only after chasing away the initial i... |
1 February 2008
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The priest may have told you not to follow the Biblical example of Jezebel, the lewd and wicked ancient queen, but an old stone tells more about the Old Testaments' vicious girl. The stone was found in Israel in 1964, and linked to Queen Jezebel, but only recently did the researchers solve the puzzle of the seal... |
9 November 2007
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