Like a lot of others here, I’ve been trying to follow this debate and have been too busy to either comment or read through all the relevant threads (there are easily over a thousand posts about Jesus since the whole ordeal started two months ago). There are a few things I’d like to add if they haven't been mentioned already.
People here should recognize the difference between ancient hist
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I only know the basics as well ....there are some differences and properties you might want to look up...there are also compatibility issues with the various windows and linux operating systems...
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If you expand the Details for your drive partitions in say My Computer, the format is the file system....or you can just right click on the drives and view the properties....
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I think that's the limitation to the FAT and FAT32 formats. I have a 2.5" 120Gb WD external hard drive. It was originally in FAT32, but both the WD site and the manual recommended NTFS for XP. When i converted it i realised that it was no longer compatible with my older laptop which runs windows ME. I now have a 10Gb FAT32 partition so that i can transfer files on my older laptop, and t
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Yes, I’ve just come back from the movie and that's exactly how i felt about the experience. It was hilarious! First of all, i liked it and had a wonderful time. It wasn't my favorite of the genre, and by that i do not mean the historical one....
First of all, i post on the imdb boards and have seen people talking about how the history is accurate, debating politics, western civiliza
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I agree that there are still questions to be answered, but i also think that topics in the field of biblical archaeology and history in general should be published in peer-reviewed articles and discussed amongst scholars before going public. They're just too controversial, and once public, objectivity becomes difficult. For example, when i read about biblical archaeology, i either read relat
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....actually i found the link with James Ossuary confusing because i thought the whole thing was proven to be a fraud...i remember BBC's horizon covered this in an episode some years ago....yeah i know it's just another tv show...but it seemed as though there wasn't any question about it....
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I was following this discussion a few weeks ago and was too busy to post anything. There are now several threads each with hundreds of posts on the topic. I wonder if the the documentary will be shown here in the UK given all the current hype and attention. I have to say though that juding from the wikipedia article alone (i haven't read all of the posts here), the tomb doesn't have muc
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I watched a documentary on the Jesus Dynasty last Christmas. It was shown a day after an excellent documentary on the Gospel of Judas (did you guys see it?). I really wasn't impressed with the Jesus Dynasty. It was harking on about a grand conspiracy to cover-up Jesus's family even though it was only talking about the well-known contradiction regarding the virginity of Mary......It even
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...have you seen it or are you planning to it? Note that wikipedia has an article discussing reactions, criticisms and endorsements.....and it hasn't been particularly favourable to the documentary. Still there are qualified contributors so you might want to look into it....
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Hey, has anybody seen this? It was apparently shown less than two weeks ago on channel 4 in the UK. I had no idea it was on and haven't watched it yet myself. It's of course controversial and i wasn't expecting this sort of thing from british television....The whole show has been posted on both youtube and video.google.....
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So you've seen it? It didn't get particularly bad reviews though. As a rule of thumb, Hollywood is not good at doing history. Virtually every single historical movie produced since Gladiator, which itself isn't entirely flawless, has been a flop. That is, with the exception of the Mel Gibson movies and a few others which were perhaps saved by novelty or the soundtrack.
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This is a documentary, right?
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I'd be very surprised if this film was even treated as historical ficion. It was based on a graphic novel and plays not unlike "Sin City"....From the trailer, the Persians were depicted as monster-like people, and the battles were highly inaccurate and fantastical like those in LoTR....
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Hey guys, i'm currently doing a project on gold and have to make a poster. Will you guys happen to know some decent sites with really good quality piccies of interesting (historical or otherwise) golden ornaments? thx
Dar
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Hey Jon would you mind telling us how it was done?.....
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This is probably a generalization but i thought the Romans weren't big on science...
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Going back to the whole da vinci descendents thing, I often wonder exactly how many living descendents someone like Ramesses has today....Running the numbers, one get some interesting figures....3200 years could be as much as 120 generations....2^120 is about 10^36 which is perhaps more than there are stars in the universe!....When Ramesses was alive the world's population was probably only
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I think David Rohl's approach is a bit too ambitious, not unlike his stuff about the exodus...When he talks about myths which permeate Greek and Roman writings, what he's talking about is a thousand years of leftovers that have come down to us...incomplete and drastically changed with little historical credibility....I don't see how he can stitch it all together to create one centr
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I don't quite understand your argument. "Western" civilisation is a hypothetical construct used to denote a ethnic, cultural and linguistic entity which existed much later in history, perhaps no earlier than the renaissance. It is arguable whether it existed earlier, which is why even though most people consider Greek civilisation to be the foundation of western culture, noone has
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Synopsis from Amazon:
The Lords of Avaris" is one man's journey in search of the legendary origins of the Western World. Our story begins in a small rock-cut tomb below the desolate ruin-mound of Jericho in the Jordan Valley. This is the start of an epic journey of discovery, in the Homeric mould, which ranges across the ancient lands and archaeological sites of the Mediterranean. Fr
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....and me of course!...you guys do realise that admitting to being born in the year of the pig reveals something of your age this year....it's a mutiple of 12....
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not at all....i absolutely love wikipedia....particularly for subjects considered not academic enough for encyclopedias such as computer gaming, popular culture etc. Popular as opposed to "general" knowledge has immense value...As for other and commercial encyclopedias, i wouldn't use them for academic purposes...but some of them might have a little more weighting if only because t
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Yeah but Britannica can be criticised for what it is or claims to be, an authority on the subject in question. Wikipedia does not claim to be a valid academic reference...The idea of source citation and referencing in research is to find authority and academic corroboration which can then be criticised accordingly. Think of it this way. If i argued a point on maat and then cited an outdated, unre
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Wikipedia is a great source. It even has specialist information useful to most levels of academic research. I certainly use it for general reading. However, the idea of wikipedia is that it claims no authority on any subject. This fact was stated by wikipedia itself. No matter how intelligent and how much of an authority the editor is, he may be a professor for example, wikipedia does not state c
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It's important to realise in all the Black Athena debates, everything is viewed from hindsight. The ancients peoples might not have considered anything borrowed or recieved. In our own times, the Brits may well be influenced by Americans in say popular culture or vice versa, but i don't thing any of us think that we are indebted to each other in any way whatsoever. This may be because w
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something i mentioned a number of times....virtually all historical characters were short....i remember it was mentioned in a documentary that Ramesses II was 5'9" and was considered godly....Napoleon i remember was about 5'6"...about average in his day....Alexander was known to be short even amongst his people...
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One thing to consider though is that the concept of beauty evolves. What is beautiful today might not be what was considered beautiful 2000 years ago....
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