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Monday, January 8, 2024
Paganism and Christianity, Part 1
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Paganism is a catch-all term to refer to countless religions that existed during the Classical Era and the Middle Ages (and experiencing a r...
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Problems in Gaza
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Gaza is currently the largest city in Palestine with over a half-million inhabitants. Its history stretches back more than 3000 years, its...
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Cross-referencing an Eclipse
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Diagram of an eclipse from a modern translation of Hipparchus It is not always easy to figure out dates from classical or medieval writi...
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
St. Menas
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In 1905, C.M. Kaufman of Frankfort led an expedition into Egypt and made excavations that unearthed the legacy of St. Menas. He found the ...
Thursday, December 6, 2012
He Who Would Be Santa
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15th century woodcut of Nicholas In the introduction to Arian Christianity I mentioned how discussion at the Council of Nicaea in 325 b...
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