The young king Tutankhamun was previously regarded as an inconsequential ruler of the 18th dynasty in the new kingdom of Ancient Egypt until the discovery of his tomb, which sparked a worldwide fascination with the life and death of this previously obscure figure. His nearly fully intact tomb was discovered by Howard Carter and his archaeological team in 1922. This tomb generated countless questions and ideas about the life and death of Tutankhamun (Tut). The wall paintings and the artefacts found in the tomb, as well as the pharaoh’s body itself allowed numerous theories to be developed as to how King Tut led his life. However, through historical and scientific research, many of the ideas conveyed by the tomb were proven to be false.
In the article, “The Death of Jesus and the Ways of God: Jesus and the Gospels on Messianic Status and Shameful Suffering by J. B. Green” states what is presented in Luke 23:1-5; Matt. 26:63; Deut. 13, “This not only implies a motivation for Jesus' condemnation by the Jewish council, but also suggests the ease with which concerns of this nature could be parlayed into terms of Jesus' threat to the Roman empire.” This is expressing the case that not only the Jewish leaders had points for condemning Christ but so did the Roman Empire. Pilate could not afford a uprising in Judea as it would look poor on him from the perspective of the Roman Empire and the Jewish leadership could not afford the people to be swayed from their power as well as in fear of the Roman occupation over them that could take away their power, traditions and beliefs but all in all their way of life.
THE CRUSADERS AND THE CHURCH The crusades represent a part of church history that many have attempted to forget and leave hidden within the history books. Some claim the crusades to be a courageous time for the Christian church as they attempted to trample out false doctrine and protect the Holy Land from the cult of Islam. Others will quickly identify the crusades as the darkest and most regretful period of time in the history of the church. Either way, there is much detail surrounding the history of the crusades and how they developed. It is not quite as easy as a black and white assumption because many of the men involved had mixed intentions and sentiments regarding what the crusades were actually about.
Procopius In The Secret History Procopius writes an extremely unfavorable account of the Emperor Justinian and his time on the thrown. He focuses his writing not only on Justinian and his wife Theodora but also his general Belisarius who Procopius accompanied on campaign and Belisarius’ wife Antonina. This account was extremely different compared with various other historical accounts and leaves the reader somewhat skeptical about the accuracy of the book. Justinian’s accomplishments far outweighed the stories that Procopius wrote about so historians like Peters and Sarris have called him and enemy of the Emperor and even a shady character and instead they focused on his accomplishments and how his laws, with some updates, were used until the end of the Byzantine Empire in 1453. (Peters, 94) Procopius in The Secret History criticizes Justinian throughout the book.
By opening his article with what sounds like a believed and conclusive opinion statement “Everyone takes for granted that the universe and earth are billions of years old” (Mortensen 2005 para. 1), Mortensen creates a confusing hypocrisy to his later closing remarks about his belief in God and a need for scripture. He also makes some alarming assumptions in his statement that the “last one hundred-seventy years have confirmed scriptural geologists worst fears”. (Mortensen 2005 para. 28) He supports this statement with an opinion that the West is in a state of social and moral decline from drug abuse, sexual immorality, violence, etc.
We see a variety of responses but it is the inability of the majority to understand the roots of the plague that prevents them from undergoing personal transformation. The religious dogma that is directed towards them leaves them ignorant and inflexible their own ideas about God and their place within society for themselves. This causes many to direct their devastation and fear to misunderstood characters that disagree with societal conventions. The crazed mob that accuses the Gowdies of witchcraft exemplifies the notion that faith blinds people to reality in ‘Year of Wonder’. Faith in God is easily converted into superstition amongst the ignorance of the uneducated.
The misfit is engulfed with futility and no faith to keep him running along with what he used to believe in, or what the grand mother is forcing him to believe in. After being thrown into jail he feels like as if “[he] was buried alive” (O’Connor 412). Editor, Lynskey gives great perspective on The Misfit’s attitude towards life. The Misfit has a quarrel with Jesus. Jesus upset the order of universe.
Kyle Haney HIST 200E 5/4/2012 The Contamination of Modern Research Introduction Human experimentation during the Holocaust stands among the most abhorrent violations against human rights. It has severed the integrity of the scientific community and has remained a scar in its history. From the remains of this scar developed the practice of modern medical ethics, specifically the Nuremberg Code. The International Military Tribunal, the court responsible in trying the Nazi Physicians that performed these “experiments”, developed this document to recognize the issue of informed consent and experimentation on human subjects., Though the experiments themselves have been condemned in a historical context, there has been great debate over the
What if God is not invisible at all, but solid, breathing, and human? In his post-apocalyptic novel, The Road, Pulitzer Prize winner Cormac McCarthy introduces the idea of a “personal God” in the form of a father and son bound together by the will to survive. Unnamed by the author, both the father and his boy are surrounded by enigmas; it is never revealed what exactly destroyed the world in fire and ash, or how the pair managed to survive for years before the novel begins. Hunted by cannibalistic “blood cults” and lacking of any regular sources of food, water, and shelter, the father and son strike out for the coast in the hopes of some better form of existence. It is in the desolation, the absolute and utter hopelessness of this novel that the idea of a personal God arises.
The Myths of anti-Semitism: Were it all began The Jewish people have been persecuted throughout history. Hated and despised for no logical reason. I wondered where all of this hatred originated from. I did some research and it dates all the way back to roman time when Jesus Christ was crucified. And people being as they are, had to find someone to blame, So they chose the Jewish because they already didn't approve of their beliefs.