Brit-Am Historical Reports
Contents:
1. Major Rabbinical Dates of Historical Events.
2. Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes were all one?
3. Rabbi Miller: Proofs Against Evolution.
4. Carthaginians of African Type?
5. Phoenician Purple.
Roman snail dye found in UK for first time
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1. Major Rabbinical Dates of Historical Events.
Rabbinical Date
1 Creation 3760 BCE
1656 Deluge 2105 BCE
1948 Birth of Abraham 1813 BCE
1996 Language Dispersion - Babylon 1765 BCE
2216 Joseph sold 1545 BCE
2448 Exodus from Egypt 1313 BCE
2892 David became king of Israel in Jerusalem 869 BCE
2964 Judah and Israel Separate. 797 ABCE
3187 The first of the Ten Tribes were exiled. 574 BCE cf. Modern Estimation :740-722 BCE.
3195 Northern Tribes were exiled 566 ABCE
3205 Tribes of Samaria exiled 556 ABCE
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2. Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes were all one?
Previously we quoted:
According to the Babylonian Talmud:
'Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes were all one. He was called Cyrus because he was a worthy king; Artaxerxes after his realm; while Darius was his own name' (Rosh HaShana 3b).
This is also ther opinion of Steve Phillips.
Steve comments:
You have taken the quotation from my paper A Radical Review of the
Chaldean and Achaemenid Periods.
https://www.academia.edu/38733098/A_Radical_Review_of_the_Chaldean_and_Achaemenid_Periods
# It should also be clarified that the
Cyrus in question was Cyrus the Younger – NOT Cyrus the Great. Cyrus
the Younger was an alternative name for the king dubbed Darius III.#
Steve Phillips has other articles inlcuding some we agree with and some we do not.
For instance:
in an article on the Temple Mount
https://www.ancienthistoryreconsidered.com/news/Was-the-Temple-Mount-Built-by-Romans.php
he says (along with others) that the site now known as the Temple Mount was not that on which the Temple actually stood.
We disagree with this.
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3. Rabbi Miller: Proofs Against Evolution.
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Confessions of a Creationist
https://aish.com/48918137/
Extracts:
Then I read a thin volume which irrevocably changed my perception. Rabbi Avigdor Miller, in his book "The Universe Testifies," discusses the humble peach pit.
Pointing out that the peach pit is so hard that no animal can bite into it and harm the delicate seed within, he informs the reader that the cement-like substance which holds the two halves of the peach pit together cannot be dissolved by anything -- except a solvent excreted by micro-organisms in the soil.
In the exact right place where the seed needs to be released, Voila! there's the chemical solvent needed to release it. Could the micro-organisms in the soil know that the peach tree was "evolving" its cement-like sealant? Yet without the soil solvent, the first generation of peach trees would have been the last.
Continuing with his rebuttal of the Theory of Evolution, Rabbi Miller points out that every egg shell must be a precise thickness -- strong enough to hold the developing chick or turtle or crocodile within, but thin enough so that the new creature can break its way out at the right moment. Moreover, the egg of each species has to be a different precise thickness, an ostrich egg thicker than that of a wren, etc.
Getting the thickness of the eggshell right (over and over again for each species) cannot be a matter of chance, because if the eggshell were not the perfect thickness the very first generation, there could be no second generation. The baby organism would have been trapped inside the too-thick egg, unable to reproduce. Moreover, no fossil has ever been found of an egg with the embryo imprisoned inside, although evolution assumes millions of such false tries.
"Thousands of degrees of thickness were possible," Rabbi Miller writes. "That the shell is not too thick and not too thin is incontrovertibly the work of a Designer."
Bringing dozens of further illustrations of phenomena in nature which simply could not have evolved by chance, Rabbi Miller's logic devastated my belief in evolution. I was convinced. #
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Rabbi Miller was also quoted as saying:
"Who said fossils are old? Don't you know that we have found fossils of modern men, fossils as recent as 300 years old. I explained here already once that in the Museum of Natural History in London, you have a fossil of a Guadalupe Indian that's no more than 300 years old."
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4. Carthaginians of African Type?
On the remains of the Phoenicians and Carthaginians: "The Phoenicians had nothing in common with the official Jewish type: brachycephal, aquiline or Hittite nose, and so on [...] skulls presumably Phoenician, have been found west of Syracuse (Sicily) [...] but these skulls are dolichocephalic and proganthous, with Negroid affinities"
"Other bones discovered in Punic Carthage, and housed in the Lavigerie Museum, come from personages found in special sarcophagi and probably belonging to the Carthaginian elite. Almost all the skulls are dolichocephalic." - Eugene Pittard "Les races et L' histoire."
"The anthropological examination of skeletons found in tombs in Carthage proves that there is no racial unity [...] The so called Semitic type, characterized by the long, perfectly oval face, the thin aquiline nose and the lengthened cranium, enlarged over the nape of the neck has not been found in Carthage. On the other hand, another cranial form, with a fairly short face, prominent parietal bumps, farther forward and lower down than is usual is common [...] most of the Punic population in Carthage had African and even Negro ancestors" - Charles Picard "Daily Life in Carthage at the time of Hannibal"
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5. Phoenician Purple.
Roman snail dye found in UK for first time
Ben Maeder & Jonathan Swingler,BBC News, Carlisle
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjje132jvygo
A rare dye made from snails for the robes of the Roman elite almost 2,000 years ago has been unearthed at a cricket club.
The chunk of Tyrian purple, roughly the size of a ping pong ball, was dug up at Carlisle Cricket Club as part of ongoing yearly excavations.
A Roman bathhouse was discovered at the site in 2017 and in the last three years 2,000 items including pottery, weapons, coins and semi-precious stones have been found.
Lead archaeologist Frank Giecco said the find was of "international significance" and the first time the precious pigment had been discovered in the UK.
Mr Giecco said the pigment was worth more than gold and would have been used to dye the clothes of figures in the imperial court and the "highest echelons" of society.
He said it was made from the glands of marine snail and about 12,000 were needed to obtain less than 2g of pigment.
"The collection of the snails and processing of the glands would have been very time-consuming, " Mr Giecco said, adding: "Hence the reason it is so expensive.
"It was used in ancient Greek and Roman wall paintings, as well as used as a dye in textiles."
The dye, which was mixed with beeswax to preserve it, was discovered at the site in October.
However, it has taken several months of chemical analysis to verify that it is purple Tyrian.