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It is one of the most controversial books in the Holy Bible; some say its theological underpinnings are responsible for launching the Protestant Reformation, blaming the Jews for the problems in the world, and challenging the cultural conflicts of today's post-modern society. But right in the middle
We, as followers of a God so often made manifest through collective liberation, don't have to wait for top-down change. This synodal process is a path that we are all making.
History of publishing - Classical Antiquity, Scrolls, Manuscripts: The Greeks adopted the papyrus roll and passed it on to the Romans. Although both Greeks and Romans used other writing materials (waxed wooden tablets, for example), the Greek and Roman words for book show identification with the Egyptian model. Greek biblos (“book”) can be compared with byblos (“papyrus”), while the Latin volumen (“book”) signified a roll. It has been suggested that papyrus was continuously in use in Greece from the 6th century bce, and evidence has been cited to indicate its use as early as 900 bc...
It can be overwhelming to be a concerned citizen of the world. Recent natural disasters in Turkey, Libya, and Afghanistan resulted in sixty thousand dead, the war between Russia and
The Book of Wisdom, the last of the Deuterocanonical books was composed in our era, when Jesus had already been born