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Historical Sanctions in the Psalms
Guess what Gary North’s favorite word is. Go on, guess. I bet you can’t. The Psalms are loaded with mentions of sanctions. Most of the Psalms were written by King David and many of them talk about how God will bring sanctions upon his enemies, or are prayers for such. Others are warnings against evil,…
Odysseus and the Cyclopes
Read Homer’s description of the Cyclopes (plural) in Book 9 of The Odyssey. Would you describe them as having a civilization? Why or why not? The Cyclopes are described as living in a sort of Garden of Eden setting, where their food grows all around them without their labor. They are also isolated from one another,…
Mycenaean Greece
Mycenaean Greece, besides being hard to spell, is hard to learn about. Very little documentation regarding it exists, and so what we know about it today we know secondhand from later Greek sources. We weren’t even confident it existed until a couple hundred years ago when pieces of what could’ve been Troy were dug up.…
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