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Did Victorian era popular scientists try to deny biblical teachings
...time rife with scientific discoveries – some which changed the course of history as we know it (Darwin’s theory of evolution), and some which sputtered ou ...ive that they explicate their findings in a way that did not conflict with Biblical teachings.

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The Beginning of Science-Based Religious Disbelief: Atheism and Disbelief in Victorian Britain
...nsidered such theories with a grain of salt, as they often conflicted with biblical teachings. ...hat individual to exist in a society governed by rules and laws based upon Biblical teachings? Charles Bradlaugh, one of England’s most famous nineteenth-cen

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Who Were the Sea Peoples
...s often term the “Great Powers Club.” <ref> Mieroop, Marc van de. A History of the Ancient Near East: ca. 3000-323 BC. 2nd ed. (London: Blackwell, ...reat Powers Club was similar to global systems from other periods in world history – it encouraged stability in the region and the development of wealth amo

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What Were the Ancient Egyptian Creation Myths
...tian “Mennefer”) served as Egypt’s political capital for much of its history, and it was also the primary cult center of the god Ptah. Like Amun, Ptah w ...early in pharaonic history in the city of Heliopolis (Egyptian “Iunu,” biblical “On”), which was the cult center of the sun-god Atum. There are plenty

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How Did Christmas Trees Become Christmas Symbols
...endar. The Tree of Life is a symbol in many ancient cultures that also has Biblical references. Many cultures had used trees to celebrate life's renewal. In No ...y was Christmas associated with Christmas trees.<ref>For more on the early history of Christmas trees and its controversy, see: Roy, C. (2005). Traditional

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What Is the Legacy of the 1993 Waco Tragedy
...ff outside of Waco became one of the most tragic events in recent American history. By the time the standoff was over, four members of the Bureau of Alcohol T ...e of Waco, Texas that he christened “Mount Carmel” in reference to the biblical locale in northern Israel.

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Why Were the Phoenicians Such Successful Merchants
...acres. <ref> Bikai, Patricia Maynor. “Cyprus and the Phoenicians.” Biblical Archaeologist. 52 (1989) p. 206</ref> The final of the three most impor ...ory:History of the Levant]] [[Category:Wikis]] [[Category:Ancient Egyptian History]]

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What was the First Wave Feminist Movement
...on, see: Roediger, D. R., Blatt, M. H., & Lowell Conference on Industrial History (Eds.). (1999). The Meaning of slavery in the North. New York: Garla ...i>The Woman's Bible, written in 1895. Although it was much maligned by Biblical scholars, Stanton tried to argue for equality using the Bible. This helped

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How Did the God Baal Become Popular
...erranean basin by the Phoenicians and was sometimes even worshipped by the biblical Israelites. ...cient History]] [[Category: History of the Levant]] [[Category: Religious History]][[Category:Wikis]]

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What Was the Significance of the Near East Middle Bronze Age System
...scholars made great advances in the fields of philology, archaeology, and history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it became clear that ...el: Syria-Palestine in the Bronze Age.” In The Oxford History of the Biblical World. Edited by Michael Coogan. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001

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Did the Biblical Exodus Actually Happen
...epresents one of the most fundamental aspects of Jewish religion and early history and is also recognized as an important event by Christians and Muslims. Bey ...al and textual sources from Egypt, some of the most respected and renowned biblical archaeologists and Egyptologists are convinced that something significant h

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Urban Masses and Moral Order in America: 1820-1920 - Book Review
...years were being drawn into the fundamentalist churches with their literal Biblical creeds and their rigid codes of personal morality. Viewing the immigrant po ...ategory:Political History]][[Category:Book Review]][[Category:19th Century History]][[Category:Videri.org]]

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Is the Film Exodus: Gods and Kings Historically Accurate
...In between, there is plenty of action, which includes large-scale battles, biblical plagues, slaves being whipped, temples being built, and romances taking pla ...oncerns the biblical Exodus, it had to tackle the difficult subject of the biblical plagues. The film showed the plagues fairly accurately according to the Bib

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What Were the Impacts of the Maccabean Rebellion on the Ancient Near East
...rice, Simon. “The History of the Hellenistic Period.” In The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World. Edited by John Boardman, Jasper Gr ...their reigns. <ref> Bryce, Trevor. Ancient Syria: A Three Thousand Year History. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pgs. 168-73</ref>

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Did the Carthaginians Really Practice Human Child Sacrifice
...Moro, Child Sacrifice, and the Greek Legendary Tradition.” Journal of Biblical Literature 123 (2004) p. 443</ref> ...of gaping pit filled with fire. <ref> Diodorus Siculus. The Library of History. Translated by C.H. Oldfather. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Unive

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How Did the Scythians Influence the Achaemenid Empire
...ious kingdoms and therefore sometimes played a major role in the course of history. From China in the east to Greece in the west, Scythian hordes quickly brou Early in the history of the Achaemenid Empire, rulers such as Darius I (ruled 522-486 BC) and Xe

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What happened to the ark of the covenant
====The history of the ark of the covenant==== The ark is tied up with the early history of the Jewish people, and for many centuries it was the symbol of their nat

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Why Were the Ancient Israelites and Edomites Enemies
...of the Hebrews and the Israelites from the earliest time of Hebrew history in the Bronze Age until the Kingdom of Judah was destroyed by the Neo-Babyl The biblical origins of the Israelite-Edomite conflict can be found in the book of Genes

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Why Were there Multiple Ancient Mesopotamian Creation Myths
...e same religion. Mesopotamia, though, was quite a different situation. The history of ancient Mesopotamia is one of various ethnic groups and city-states batt ...-state having a prominent god or goddess. <ref> Mieroop, Marc van de. A History of the Ancient Near East: ca. 3000-323 BC. Second Edition. (London: Bla

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How Did the Hyksos Conquer the Egyptian Delta
During ancient Egypt’s long and illustrious history, many foreign groups attempted to invade the Nile Valley, but few were succ ...chaeological advances in the Levant, the consensus among Egyptologists and Biblical scholars shifted to the Hyksos having Canaanite-Semitic origins.

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