Hodie est pr. Id. Sept. 2776 AUC ~ 27 Metageitnion in the third year of the 700th Olympiad
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Face it — you wouldn’t survive two days back in the first century. If the food-borne bacteria didn’t kill you, you might keel over from the odors alone! In this episode, Helen and Dave welcome Jodi Magness, biblical archeologist extraordinaire, for a frank and sometimes graphic discussion of what daily life REALLY would have been like in 1st-century Judaea: just nasty!
Before Heracles, there was Alcmene, and there’s so much more to her than just “mother of a hero”.
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Alia
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‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends a rainy harvest and famine.
… adapted from the text and translation of:
Jean MacIntosh Turfa, The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar, in Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Erika Simon (eds.), The Religion of the Etruscans. University of Texas Press, 2006. (Kindle edition)
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