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 55
... original inhabitants and the Sinai- nomads who had integrated with them and gave their develop- ment an entirely new direction . In the records of the old Anterior Asian historians the Sea Peoples and the other splinter groups derived ...
... original inhabitants and the Sinai- nomads who had integrated with them and gave their develop- ment an entirely new direction . In the records of the old Anterior Asian historians the Sea Peoples and the other splinter groups derived ...
Page 120
... 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 same way as the Phoenicians , who said molk when perhaps they meant men . Jewish philosophers ...
... 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 same way as the Phoenicians , who said molk when perhaps they meant men . Jewish philosophers ...
Page 177
... original thirty to twenty - two , and to have considerably simplified them compared with the Sinaitic symbols . From the sign like an ox's head with which the Phoenician alphabet begins , a letter had developed which looks very like our ...
... original thirty to twenty - two , and to have considerably simplified them compared with the Sinaitic symbols . From the sign like an ox's head with which the Phoenician alphabet begins , a letter had developed which looks very like our ...
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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