Candace shoves Roman courtier aside by the booty to tell Caesar Augustus he’d better give up, OR ELSE!
Candace shoves Roman courtier aside by the booty to tell Caesar Augustus he’d better give up, OR ELSE!
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Did the Romans chicken out, start a war of conquest and lose, or surrender to Cush?
Often with twisted narratives, or the usual sort of pilpul, it takes considerable explanation to demonstrate that the argument is hollow and disingenuous. (more…)
Propaganda poster found in ancient vault, inscribed “Brown Sugah Candi goan whup crackah booty!”
Propaganda poster found in ancient vault, inscribed “Brown Sugah Candi goan whup crackah booty!”
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Behold! In the days of yore, there arose in Cush a most noble lady, Amanirenas named, and she was a mighty Queen.[1] Two millennia later, renewed buzz is effervescing about the East African potentate. One item was pipelined to my start page feed, thanks to whichever munchkin is entrusted with the Firefox transmission belt. (more…)
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Chapter Nine, “Europe and the Indo-Europeans,” addresses another required subject: the origins and development of the white race and its civilizations. These discussions, mixing science (genomes), soft science (anthropology), and “esoteric” science (Evola, again), usually make me want to lie down and take a nap — wake me when the Funnelbeaker Farmers annihilate the Corded Ware culture — but I think I now have the hang of this Indo-European business — the various ways the genetics of three peoples and the resulting cultures (male initiation, warrior bands, and caste systems) have intertwined in our history — thanks to The Golden One! (more…)
Peter was martyred by Nero sometime between 64 and 67. Peter’s martyrdom is not mentioned in Acts, which implies that Acts had already been published and distributed.
Peter was martyred by Nero sometime between 64 and 67. Peter’s martyrdom is not mentioned in Acts, which implies that Acts had already been published and distributed.
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The early vs. late Debate
Biblical scholars are divided over when the Synoptic Gospels and the Book of Revelation were written. John’s Gospel is certainly later, and may even have been written after Revelation, but the debate does not address when John was written, since that gospel is so different from the others. (more…)
The Destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD changed the religious order of the Roman Empire.
The Destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD changed the religious order of the Roman Empire.
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Theology matters. The ideas arising from how religious thinkers have connected things in scripture drive a great deal of social policy. The outcomes of these policies can be good or bad. Societies that follow a Calvinist interpretation of Christianity, for example, tend to be wealthy. (more…)
Peter’s vision was a rejection of Jewish influence upon Christianity.
Peter’s vision was a rejection of Jewish influence upon Christianity.
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The Damnatio Memoriae of Lucius Aelius Sejanus and the Jews of the Roman Empire
During Jesus’ ministry, the Emperor of Rome was Tiberius Caesar, but the government of Rome was administered by Lucius Aelius Sejanus. Pontius Pilate, a client of Sejanus and the husband of Ceasar Augustus’ granddaughter, was Governor of Judea. Herod Antipas was the tetrarch of Galilee. (more…)
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Nero was only 16 when he became Emperor. His coming to power had nevertheless been enabled by several murders and/or suspiciously timely deaths. Claudius may or may not have died accidentally, but Narcissus, who favored Britannicus and the Senator Silanus, were poisoned almost certainly on the orders of Nero’s mother. (more…)
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Alexander Bätz
Nero: Wahnsinn und Wirklichkeit
Hamburg: Rowohlt Buchverlag, 2023
Among those able to name any Roman emperors, Nero is likely to be on their list. Although he was Roman Emperor for only 14 years, from 54 to 68 AD, he is widely viewed as one of the most famous or infamous of all of them, strongly associated with the persecution of the Christians and the murder of both his mother and wife, and he is widely seen as the embodiment of tyranny. (more…)
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Yevgeny Prigozhin, the flamboyant leader of the mercenary Wagner Group, launched a coup against the Russian government on June 23, 2023 which began after he broadcast a video message over social media. (more…)
Justus of Ghent, Saint Augustine, c. 1475
Justus of Ghent, Saint Augustine, c. 1475
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The Emerging of a Christian Historical Consciousness
For all we have said about Greek and Roman historiography (and there were other historians, such as Suetonius, Appian, and Casius Dios), contemporary scholars invariably agree that the ancients remained a “non-historical” people. Herbert Butterfield is convinced “the Greeks did not achieve historical mindedness, and never could have achieved it, because they had the wrong view of time and the time process.” The Greeks “only knew of a comparatively short history behind them — they thought that the historical past extended back for only a very few hundred years.” (more…)
Theodoros Pelecanos, Ouroboros (1478)
Theodoros Pelecanos, Ouroboros (1478)
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One of the most startling historical truths is that Europeans invented the writing of history as “a method of sorting out the true from the false,” as a conscious search for a rational explanation of the causes of events, while rendering the results of their investigations in sustained narratives of excellent prose. The other peoples of the world, including the Chinese who maintained for centuries a tradition of chronological writers, barely rose above annalistic forms of recording the deeds of rulers or the construction of genealogies devoid of reflections on historical causation. This would not have been judged a controversial view a few decades ago. (more…)
