The Phoenicians: The Purple Empire of the Ancient WorldMorrow, 1975 - 288 pages Examines the history, people, culture, civilization, and achievements of the Phoenicians, whose supremacy in shipbuilding and navigation enabled them to be masters of the ancient world for three hundred years. |
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Page 114
... never loses its course , but comes by a direct route to Byblos . The whole affair is very astonishing . It is repeated every year , and it also happened when I was in Byblos , and I myself saw the head in this city . ' It will never be ...
... never loses its course , but comes by a direct route to Byblos . The whole affair is very astonishing . It is repeated every year , and it also happened when I was in Byblos , and I myself saw the head in this city . ' It will never be ...
Page 120
... never really in a position to come to terms with the offering of the body on the cross in this original sense , and has therefore always tended to speak and sing of Jesus as the ' Lamb of God ' . In so doing it was reacting in much the ...
... never really in a position to come to terms with the offering of the body on the cross in this original sense , and has therefore always tended to speak and sing of Jesus as the ' Lamb of God ' . In so doing it was reacting in much the ...
Page 224
... never happened . Although Socrates ' pupil never succeeded in conveying his strict ideas of the republican ethos to the life- and pleasure - loving Siceliots or Greek Sicilians ( he tried for a while to realize his idea of a Utopian ...
... never happened . Although Socrates ' pupil never succeeded in conveying his strict ideas of the republican ethos to the life- and pleasure - loving Siceliots or Greek Sicilians ( he tried for a while to realize his idea of a Utopian ...
Contents
The Bedouins of the Sea II | 11 |
The City in the Cedar Grove | 27 |
The Coming of the Aryans | 39 |
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