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176 pages of results. 441. A Potential Historical Connection for the Death and Burial of Jacob in Genesis [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... of chronology. The present study adopts and utilizes a rather traditional chronology for both the biblical record and the ancient Near East. At the very least this kind of correlation can be taken as a working hypothesis to see what might ... up at this point for study in detail. The patriarchal period in Genesis and Exodus is dated, as noted above, 430 years before the Exodus event. The beginning of this event is measured off by the Eisodus of Jacob ... favored region of the land in which to settle, the land of Goshen. Presumably this was located in the eastern Delta region, and it was a prosperous and fertile land upon which the Israelites were settled. According to Genesis ...
442. Collapsing Tests of Time [Books] [de Grazia books]
... "for 100,000 years" would be highly improbable. Further, the 180-foot live-depth figure may be more nearly half that- or 80 feet maximum live depth [28]. The vertical growth rate of coral can be ... channel, its age is great. But if it is regarded as a transverse branch of the fissure-fracture of the East Pacific followed by deluge and tidal erosion, then it could be of holocene age [7 ]. Ocean sedimentation ... to studies distinguishing earlier eruptions of Ischia (Italy) and casts doubt upon various cultural modes of dating for the Eastern Mediterranean [72]. Hydrocarbons from widespread fires have lately been discovered in "normal" land and off-shore cores ...
443. An Ancient Refuge of Man (Built Before the Flood) [Books]
... of Lake Titicaca, was somewhat lower, and hence also smaller, than the present lake. At, or near, the shore of that Lake Pre-Titicaca', unknown peoples built substantial, roughly orientated temples for their gods, ... the weak spots' in the great mountain wall, the narrow gaps to the south of Ascotan and to the east of Uyuni, but chiefly through that to the west of La Paz. It was thus that a vast area ... (Cf. buildings B, C, D, and western F, and edifices A, E, and eastern F, on Diagram 7. The Fortress of Akapana belongs to both periods, its vast size made re-orientation impracticable ...
444. Chapter XVII: the Building Inscriptions [Books]
... the "middle point " of the constellation, which would be about represented by the star d, which lies nearly in the centre of the modern constellation of the Great Bear, supposing, indeed, that the same stars were ... temple). But it is possible that there might have been another temple at right angles, facing nearly due east. In this case, the larger temple would have been named after the worship to which the smaller one was ... . If so, unlike the solar temples at Heliopolis, Abydos, and Thebes, the Edfû temple was sacred to the Equinoctial Sun, or, at all events, to the Sim very near an equinox. Notes "Baugeschichte ...
445. The Scenario of Exodus [Books] [de Grazia books]
... year, that is, one might expect one or two active electricians per million people. In Egypt and the Near East, before the Exodus catastrophe, there lived perhaps twelve million people. Supposing a higher electrification of the environment ... a greater theocratic interest in electricity, the ratio of experts to population was probably greater. The Egyptian government might reasonably view with alarm and suspicion the subversive activities of Moses and his Levite followers, even if there were only a ... built, the innermost target of the solstitial sun of winter had to be shifted to catch the sunrise on the eastern horizon farther north. One may reason that the axis of the Earth shifted, carrying Egypt further North by 5 ...
446. Shamash The Sun God [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... , for obvious reasons and, because of its single eye, with Cyclops figures which do often appear in early Near Eastern art. However there is no evidence for any link with the Greek Cyclops. I have never heard of ... I cant be more helpful. Yours sincerely, Dr Dominique Collon, Assistant Keeper, Department of the Ancient Near East, British Museum, London WC1B 3DG. ...
447. Chapter II: The Events [The Age of Velikovsky] [Books]
... soon cross the earth's orbit again. This approach could have been perfectly harmless, but the earth happened to be near the same point at the time. MINOR QUAKES The second near encounter was not as close or as destructive as ... Book of Exodus, and the Midrashim, as well as from stories of the mythologies of Siberia and of the East Indies. The descriptions all indicate a petroleum product was precipitating. The people were obviously unfamiliar with petroleum. When ... is veiled by clouds."28 This condition lasted for a number of years according to the transcriptions from the eastern hemisphere. Mesoamerican cultures, also with straightforward prose, said that the faces of the sun and of the moon ...
448. Aphrodite Urania [Journals] [Aeon]
... our opinion, it is the goddess' identification with the planet Venus- attested in numerous cultures from the ancient Near East, but also among aboriginal peoples of the New World- which offers the elusive common denominator necessary to achieve ... comprehensive understanding of the goddess' mythical attributes. In this series of essays, we intend to show that the majority of the symbolic images and mythological themes associated with the mother goddess- including the various forms of the goddess personified ... Ashtorith, who in turn is identical with Ishtar." See W. Burkert, The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in Early Archaic Age (Cambridge, 1992), p. 98. C. Kerenyi ...
449. Calibrated Radiocarbon and the 'Methodological Fault-Line' [Journals] [SIS Review]
... 54, pp. 25-28 4. Antiquity 54, pp. 225-227 5. F. Hole: Issues in Near Eastern Chronology', in O. Aurenche et al. (eds): Chronologies in the Near East, ... Archaeological Report S379 Pt2 [1987], p. 562 6. ibid, p. 563 7. R. D. Long: Ancient Egyptian Chronology, Radiocarbon Dating and Calibration', Zeitschrift fur Aegyptische Sprache 103 [1976 ... , pp. 30-48 8. S. Richard: Towards a Consensus of Opinion on the End of the EBA in Palestine-TransJordan', BASOR 237 [1980], pp. 5-34 (p . 29). Richard gave dates ...
450. The Battle Of Kadesh-carchemish. Ch. 1. (Ramses II and his Time) [Velikovsky]
... his headquarters at Riblah, Ramses II used to have carved commemorative tablets at Nahr el-Kelb (Dog River), near Beirut on the Syrian coast. He had them cut in the rock next to the tablet of Esarhaddon, king ... Kadesh in the land of Carchemish, west of the Euphrates, which he and his troops, coming from the east, crossed. The victorious army of Thutmose could not take Aleppo and some regions in Mesopotamia without first taking Tell ... , dispatched mercenaries who arrived by sea and for whom the pharaoh built camps in Defenneh (Daphnae) in the eastern part of the Delta. In establishing the identity of Ramses II and Pharaoh Necho, we look also for an ...
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