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Pagans and Christians.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
SIR: Nigel Jackson's anti-Christian diatribe (Letters, May 2005) manages to mix the standard village-atheistic historical revisionism with one of the loopiest books around. Where to start?
Relying on The Pagan Christ by the non-scholar Tom Harpur must be the height of desperation. Harpur ludicrously tries to derive Christianity from pagan Egyptian religions, which no Egyptologist would accept. For example, Harpur claims, "The name of Jesus (Iusu) occurs in Egyptian texts before 10,000 BCE", which would be news because there are no Egyptian texts at all older than about 2300 BC!
The burning of the Great Library at Alexandria: the worst culprit was in fact Ptolemy VIII in 89-88 BC, when he burned most of the city, followed by Julius Caesar in 47 BC, when he partially destroyed the library. Rather hard to blame Christianity for pre-Christian vandalism, but that doesn't stop some anti-Christians. Further loss of books from the library occurred when some were moved to Rome to replenish libraries there. Then Roman emperor ...
- Let's not forget the Millennium marks the birth of Christ; FROM THE...
- Newspaper article from: Sunday Mirror (London, England) July 19, 1998 700+ words
...anything to do with the birth of Jesus Christ. Maybe you are one of the other...is based on the birth of Jesus. BC - Before Christ - and AD - Anno Domini - in the year...reckon he was actually born around 4 BC. But don't let that trouble you...
- BC or B.C.
- Reference information from: Webster's NewWorld Dictionary January 1, 1988 700+ words
Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 BC or B.C. 1. before Christ 2. British Columbia Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.
- Was Christ tried?(Opinion & Editorial)
- Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin March 29, 2002 700+ words
(Editor's note: Christ was sentenced to death...of Jewish History, 100 BC to 100 AD. The author...in almost all books on Christ as primary or secondary...found it necessary if Christ died in 30 or 33 AD. (He was born between 7 and 4 BC.) John the Baptist was...
- PR Newswire National Summary, Friday, June 20, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. ET.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 20, 2003 700+ words
...NYF083 06/20/2003 14:18 r f bc-NY-PepsiCo-Conf-2Q (PURCHASE...PHF032 06/20/2003 14:24 r n bc-PA-Christ-Assoc-Legis (PITTSBURGH) Death...PHF034 06/20/2003 14:24 r f bc-PA-Berger-Montague (PHILADELPHIA...
- PR Newswire Sports Summary for Friday, June 1, through 6:00 p.m.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 1, 2001 700+ words
...LAF002 06/01/2001 09:02 r e bc-PA-Chi-Chi's-Football...MNF008 06/01/2001 09:52 r v bc-MN-Christ-Presbyteri (EDINA) 5K Race to...NYF059 06/01/2001 12:07 r e bc-Sutton-Ace-Dublin-Cap (PARIS...
- Guest Column; Ebenezer Scrooge is alive and working for some secular...
- Magazine article from: The Report Newsmagazine Ulrich, Mariette December 16, 2002 700+ words
...expunged from public life. Christ's birth heralded universal...Common Era) instead of BC (Before Christ) in relation to dates...than adding an "E" to "BC." Of course the word...derived, as it is, from "Christ's Mass"). But what...
- QUIZZICAL.
- Magazine article from: Geographical May 1, 2001 700+ words
...When was the dating system AD/BC first used and by whom? A: The...the years before the Nativity as BC (before Christ) and those after as AD (anno Domini...Dionysius calculated that the birth of Christ occurred in 753AUC, despite the...
- For the record.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
- Magazine article from: New Internationalist Crooks, Tim May 1, 2007 700+ words
...oral history until the sixth century BC. The sixth century was when what...Before Common Era) rather than BC (Before Christ)? What event marks the cut-off...and what came before? The birth of Christ! Tim Crooks Reading, England
