THE 1050 Lecture 12: THE 10.25.12
30 Nov 2017
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Nehemiah kicks the samaritan community out temple: leading samaritan family to the north was sandballat, two temples were rivals, samaritan v jewish temple. The grandson of the zedekiah priestly writer joshua. Aramaic: language of syria, related to hebrew, in public used aramaic. Greeks then the romans: becomes the new world, the european world, living in today, israel gave us religion, europe gave us our science thus we are divided . Greeks were the leaders of philosopher, like aristotle and plato. When alexander conquered the near east, he not only defeated the armies of the near east but promoted the greek culture, philosophy and sciences. Civilization moves out of middle east and goes into europe. Hasidim (meaning religious: refuse to confirm to the modern ways, very religious, are trying to rebuild modern israel. 200 bc: antiochus the 3rd, with the seleucids are controlling the empire. On the horizon, on the west, the romans are rising.
