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... . THE IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT 1. Imperial Authority 2. Three Classes of Citizens IV. ROMAN RELIGION 1. Deities 2. Religious Decay V. ROME AND THE JEWS 1. Judea under ...
https://bibleatlas.org/rome.htm
... even given superiority to natives. Egyptians and Greeks were conciliated by the introduction of a syncretic religion in which the greatest Greek god was worshipped as Osiris, Egyptian god of the underworld, ...
https://bibleatlas.org/alexandria.htm
... POTTERY AND EMBROIDERY IX. LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND SCIENCE X. GOVERNMENT AND ARMY XI. RELIGION XII. EXCAVATIONS XIII. CHRONOLOGY XIV. HISTORY 1. Early Period 2. The Older ...
https://bibleatlas.org/assyria.htm
... It was planted on the territory of a great estate belonging to the priests of the native religion; the remaining portions of this estate belonged later to the Roman emperors, and many inscriptions ...
https://bibleatlas.org/pisidian_antioch.htm
... of whom had the right to build castles and to share in the government. 2. Religion: A number of deities are mentioned on the inscriptions, two chief being Il-Maqqih and Ta ...
https://bibleatlas.org/sheba.htm
... sources, but have also thrown a flood of light upon the general history, civilization and religion of Palestine in pre-Israelite and Israelite times. 1. The Discovery and Position of the Site ...
https://bibleatlas.org/gezer.htm
... 2. World-Politics 3. Battle of Karkar 4. Loss of Territory 5. Reform of Religion 6. Revolution 7. The IVth Dynasty 8. Renewed Prosperity 9. Anarchy III. ...
https://bibleatlas.org/israel.htm
... and their historical import depend on the critical position taken as to the general history of Israel's religion. See ISRAEL, RELIGION OF ; CRITICISM ; DEUTERONOMY, etc. LITERATURE. See , ...
https://bibleatlas.org/high_mountain.htm
... , who remained in the country as an inferior caste. The Galatai soon adopted the country religion, alongside of their own; the latter they retained at least as late as the 2nd ...
https://bibleatlas.org/galatia.htm
... and 4th centuries B.C. We should also not fail to mention three great centers of Greek religion: Olympia, in Elis, as the chief sanctuary of Zeus; Delphi, in Phocis ...
https://bibleatlas.org/greece.htm
... important part played by the chief god of that land Amurru or Uru, in the Babylonian religion and nomenclature. In fact nearly all of the original names of the Semitic Babylonian sun-deities are ...
https://bibleatlas.org/babylonia.htm
... 4. Arts and Manufactures 5. Commerce and Trade 6. Language and Culture 7. Religion 8. History LITERATURE 1. The Land: The term "Phoenicia" is Greek ( ...
https://bibleatlas.org/phoenicia.htm
... the history of the Dispersion. It was meant to keep those Jewish exiles true to the religion of their fathers and in religious fellowship with their brethren in Palestine. For a like purpose ...
https://bibleatlas.org/dispersion.htm
... Cemeteries 3. The Damming of the Nile 4. Egyptian Famines III. THE NILE IN RELIGION 1. The Nile as a God 2. The Nile in the Osirian Myth 3. ...
https://bibleatlas.org/nile_river.htm
... been among the Jews settled at Tarsus by Antiochus Epiphanes, who, without sacrificing nationality or religion, became citizens of a community organized after the Greek model. On what occasion and for ...
https://bibleatlas.org/kue.htm
... been among the Jews settled at Tarsus by Antiochus Epiphanes, who, without sacrificing nationality or religion, became citizens of a community organized after the Greek model. On what occasion and for ...
https://bibleatlas.org/tarsus.htm
... finally reached the people of Athens. Then came the Stoics and Epicureans who taught philosophy and religion as a system, not as a faith, and spent their time in searching out some ...
https://bibleatlas.org/areopagus.htm
... :22. The history of this Cappadocian kingdom is involved, obscure and bloody. Pagan religion had a deep hold upon the population prior to the advent of Christianity. Comana was famous ...
https://bibleatlas.org/cappadocia.htm
... renowned, was the collossinus, a peculiar wool, probably of a purple color. In religion the people were specially lax, worshipping angels. Of them, Michael was the chief, ...
https://bibleatlas.org/colossae.htm
... civilization in the industrial arts, such as dyeing and weaving, as well as in their religion and mythology. The Corinthian cult of Aphrodite, of Melikertes (Melkart) and of Athene ...
https://bibleatlas.org/corinth.htm
... suggested that they were anterior to the time of Moses. Naturally they brought with them their religion, the worship of the moon-goddess Atargatis (Derceto) being introduced at Paphos, and the ...
https://bibleatlas.org/kittim.htm
... in modern times to the fact that a large minority of the population has accepted the Ottoman religion along with Ottoman government, have kept Crete in a position of political inferiority throughout the historical ...
https://bibleatlas.org/crete.htm
... history of Christianity. For a long time the people strongly opposed the introduction of a strange religion, and in 312 A.D. they even petitioned the Roman emperor Maximin against it. A ...
https://bibleatlas.org/lycia.htm
... was originally one of the many "holy trees" of the land venerated by primitive Semitic religions feeling, and the nearness of Hebron caused the Bible story to be attached to it. ...
https://bibleatlas.org/mamre.htm
... , History of Egypt, II, 83, 84, 108; Breasted, Development of Religion and Thought in Egypt, chapters i, ii) . The myth of Osiris makes even ...
https://bibleatlas.org/on.htm
