Originally posted by tabibito
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And you think that is a record of an earthquake? ... 可哀そうな
To repeat my earlier post (#186)
Qualified by context: αγγελος γαρ κυριου καταβας εξ ουρανου προσελθων απεκυλισεν τον λιθον “for an angel of the Lord having descended from heaven, having arrived, rolled away the stone…”
Do you perhaps think that the addition of accents changes the meaning?
Originally posted by rogue06
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As I noted, the region is prone to seismic activity thanks to the proximity of the Dead Sea Rift Valley. In his Patterns of Seismic Sequences in the Levant -- Interpretation of Historical Seismicity Amos Salamon reveals that the area experiences tremors there on a virtually yearly basis. And many are large scale. IIRC, Josephus, in his Jewish War, even mentioned one which hit Judea resulting in tens of thousands of deaths. In fact, the late anthropologist and archaeologist Kenneth Russell examined the evidence for roughly a hundred major earthquakes in the region and reported in The Earthquake Chronology of Palestine and Northwest Arabia from the 2nd Through the Mid-8th Century A. D that 71 of them were centered in the Judea-Samaria region.
So the idea of an earthquake taking place is far from preposterous.
So the idea of an earthquake taking place is far from preposterous.
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