Why Did Judas Identify Jesus with a Kiss? The Late Hershel Shanks’s First Person from the January/February 2014 issue of BAR Hershel Shanks April 05, 2022 97 Comments 43030 views Share I’ve been reading a book titled Pseudo-Cyril of Jerusalem “On the Life and the Passion of Christ”: A Coptic Apocryphon by the Dutch scholar … Lire la suite
Sebenico si trova nella Dalmazia centrale dove il fiume Krka sfocia nel Mare Adriatico. È considerata la più antica città nativa croata e oggi è un centro politico, accademico, industriale e turistico della contea di Sebenico-Knin. Grazie alla sua ottima posizione geografica, potrete visitare molte città situate a sud e anche a nord di Sebenico … Lire la suite
The experiences of U.S. infantrymen in Vietnam are told in many ways: through personal memoirs, media accounts, oral histories— and the government’s own reports. Historian Chris McNab mined those reports to produce The U.S. Army Infantryman Vietnam Pocket Manual, which reprints declassified primary documents such as field manuals, weapons manuals, intelligence analyses and after-action reports, … Lire la suite
Take a video tour atop the walls of the Old City Nathan Steinmeyer April 04, 2022 0 Comments 323 views Share Looking out over the walls of Jerusalem. Courtesy Nathan Steinmeyer. The walls of Jerusalem have shifted many times throughout history and today large sections of the ancient city lie outside the current Ottoman-era fortifications. … Lire la suite
Examining the tomb of Jesus in light of Second Temple-period Jerusalem tombs Megan Sauter April 03, 2022 33 Comments 57351 views Share “Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb.”—John 20:1, NRSV What … Lire la suite
Where Was Jesus Born? Jesus’ birthplace and hometown Megan Sauter April 02, 2022 46 Comments 110992 views Share Where was Jesus born? In the Bible, Jesus’ birthplace is identified as Bethlehem. This scene from the Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel in Padua by the Italian artist Giotto shows Mary, Joseph and Jesus in the Bethlehem stable. The … Lire la suite
‘OOPS’ WAR[Re. “The ‘Oops’ War,” by Daniel McEwen, March 2022] The article certainly does not downplay the enormous cost of World War I, but the title struck a nerve with me. From what I’ve read, the interlocking set of alliances German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck had set up made the war inevitable once the assassination … Lire la suite
One young woman, inspired by her father’s service in World War II, joined the Army to be a nurse. Another young man, motivated by stories of history and the Army’s place in it while in grade school set his sights on a career in the military. Both wound up in the Vietnam War and decades later shared their stories … Lire la suite
Study reveals that Jerusalem’s kings added vanilla to their wine Nathan Steinmeyer April 01, 2022 0 Comments 100 views Share Collection of wine jars after the restoration. Courtesy Dafna Gazit, Israel Antiquities Authority. It might seem strange, but in the days of the biblical kings, wine flavored with vanilla was a hit. We are not … Lire la suite
by Dmitry Degtev and Dmitry Zubov, Pen & Sword, 2021, $34.95. Innumerable books have been written about the 1940 Battle of Britain. Almost nothing has been published in the West concerning the equally pivotal World War II aerial campaign waged over Moscow between Germany and the Soviet Union during 1941 and early 1942. Although the … Lire la suite
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