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- 28 August 2010 : Resurrection in the second century
In describing how statues were made and used in the first centuries of this era, we have been using terms such as resurrection, Greek magic and ritual, and related them [More...]
- 22 August 2010 : Lifting the Vaults of Heavenly and Earthly Peace
Lifting the Vaults of Heavenly and Earthly Peace The Zodiac of Dendera, Ptolemaic Period, reign of Cleopatra VII, 50 BCE. Temple of Hathor at Dendera, Bas-relief, sandstone (Louvre, France) This sandstone slab [More...]
- 12 August 2010 : Aulus Pudens in the Chichester inscription
Aerial view looking north-west across Fishbourne palace. Near Chichester in the south of Britain, it is approximately equivalent in size to Nero's Golden House in Rome. The palace outlasted the original British [More...]
- 5 August 2010 : Mauretanian glassmakers in Roman Britain
There was no word in Latin for glass at the beginning of the first century of this era, though glassware had been made and admired in the panhellenic world for [More...]
- 26 July 2010 : The Gospels According to Hadrian, Part III: The Aelian Canon and the Main Hand of God
The Gospels According to Hadrian, Part III: The Aelian Canon and the Main Hand of God Archaeologist photographed unearthing a statue of the Emperor Hadrian juxtaposed with an image of the [More...]
- 20 July 2010 : Manimekalai: Dancer with Magic Bowl
Manimekalai Dancer with Magic Bowl Narrative in Tamil Epic (Second Century AD) Arputhrani Sengupta (Associate Professor, Dept. of History of Art, National Museum Institute, New Delhi, India) [BIO] ABSTRACT The question for [More...]
- 20 July 2010 : The Gospels of Hadrian Part II: Death on the Nile
The death of Antinous by drowning in the sacred waters of the Nile was pregnant with religious significance for a very large cross-section of the culture within which the event [More...]
- 11 July 2010 : The God-Idea of the Ancients Or Sex In Religion
In The Gospels According to Hadrian (part one), Lancelotto began: As an intellectual product of the twentieth century, I am often haunted by the long shadows cast in the [More...]
- 26 June 2010 : The Gospels According to Hadrian (part one)
As an intellectual product of the twentieth century, I am often haunted by the long shadows cast in the gloaming of the Victorian age prior to the outbreak of WWI [More...]
- 14 June 2010 : The Royal Library of Alexandria in the first century
Inscription regarding Tiberius Claudius Babillus of Rome confirming that the Library of Alexandria existed in the first century CE. Forschungen in Ephesos, Vol. III, Vienna 1923, p.128. The Royal Library [More...]
- 12 June 2010 : Josephus as a source: difficult and dangerous
Josephus is the most important source for the first century, yet treating him is difficult and dangerous: we don't know who he is; an active participant in the events he [More...]
- 10 June 2010 : The Loss of Reason
I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in [More...]
- 10 June 2010 : Jesus son of Sapphias
Above the surface over their heads was what looked like a throne made of blue sapphire. And high above this throne was a figure whose appearance was like that of [More...]
- 9 June 2010 : Stumbling along the trail of the past
History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past... ~ Winston Churchill From where am I coming, where are we now and what are we trying to achieve [More...]
- 8 June 2010 : Eleazar, Saul and a Deed of Gift at Qumran
Writing on fragments of pottery from Qumran refer to giving property between two men, which has prompted scholarly discussion of an account in Acts and if the two could [More...]
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