History

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History The BibleSemester 2

• October 28, 2008
• Joel Lampe

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There Is No Class Next Week

• Lets Say It Together

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One More Reminder

• No Class Next Week

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Review

• Library at Tarsus
• Alexander ? Aristotle
• Aristotle ? Alexander
• Education, Commerce Language
• Greek Greek - Greek

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Todays Theme

• Why Cant We all Just Agree? Why Do We Have To
  Agree To Disagree?

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Alexanders World
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7 Generals to Four
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The Four Generals

• Ptolemy Lagi --- who ruled over Egypt, Palestine,
  and Arabia
• Antigonus --- who controlled Syria, Babylonia,
  and central Asia.
• Cassander --- who ruled over Macedonia and
  Greece.
• Lysimachus --- who was the ruler of Thrace and
  Bythinia.

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First General To Be Ousted?

• You have a one in four chance?
• Ptolemy
• Antigonus
• Cassander
• Lysimachus

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Antigonus

• Seleucus Takes His Place

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Re-Examine The Map
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320ish BC - Ptolemy

• Ptolemy vs Perdiccas 321 BC
• Ptolemy Does Victory Lap Around Jerusalem 320 BC
• The Jerusalem
• Academy

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Secure Egypt

• Ptolemy knew the importance of Egypt

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40 Years of War

• 323BC to 283 BC
• Dies at age 84
• Hands over the kingdom to
• Ptolemy II

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First Order of Business

• The Library

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Standard Unto Itself

• Library of Babylon
• Library of Tarsus
• Library of Athens
• Library of Pergamus
• Cant Compare

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The Connection

• The Septuagint

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Very Important

• Lets Pay Attention
• 72 Scholars
• 12 Group of 6
• Torah Done First

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Rest of the Books Done

• Over the Next 40 Years

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As The Legend Goes

• All 12 Groups Did Exact Translations
• Of The Torah
• The Uh-Oh Factor

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Big Money Prize For Who Knows?

• Who Remembers The Date of the Flood in the
  Septuagint
• First Lecture I gave?

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Septuagint Date of Flood

• 3246 BC

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OH Geez Why?

• You had to pay attention in week 2
• Who is the Historian?

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Manetho

• Hired Historian Who Wrote That Egypts Pharoahs
  Go Back to 3200 BC
• So Now What?
• Intimidation?
• Dead Sea Scrolls Wrong?
• Bad Translation?

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Next Week

• Here Come The Bad Guys
• And No Class Next Week