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Exactly when the New Testament was written affects the interpretation of every aspect of Christian origins. Biblical scholars generally think that except for eight or nine of the letters attributed to St. Paul, the books were composed between A.D. 70 and the early 2nd century, with one or two even later. Fundamentalists believe every word in the Bible is literally true, but those who hold to "late" dating argue that much of the New Testament was not written by contemporary witnesses and tends to reflect later church views of Jesus and his Apostles...
Long before the invention of the rocket, man dreamed of hoisting sail and traveling through space in wind-blown ships. In The True History, a tale written in the 2nd century A.D. by the satirist and onetime lawyer, Lucian of Samosata, a ship with a 50-man crew is caught in an Atlantic storm, carried aloft and sent, sail billowing, on a journey to the moon. Later storytellers launched ships with sails on even more fanciful space trips. But none of these fictional voyages was as remarkable as the mission now being planned for NASA by scientists at Pasadena...
...TFAA, are self-critical about this period, for this was a time when there should have been more active exposures of discrimination and more active showing of support for democratic rights. In attempting to correct this situation, the TFAA went into high gear in preparation for a May 2nd demonstration. This demonstration was aimed at again calling attention to unanswered grievances, as well as uniting broad support around several very specific programmatic demands, including: a new Affirmative Action plan, ending harassment of Sherman Holcombe, ending of the policy of non-posting of jobs, and a cessation of anti-union policies...
With the ominous words "abused," "image" and "appeared," Gibbon conveys in brief most of what had gone wrong with Rome. Several decades of relative peace in the 2nd century left the army lax and indolent. It was a time of great prosperity, and excess wealth had its customary enervating effect. But it was the lack of supporting structure behind the impressive forms of government that doomed Rome, Gibbon believes. He traces this lack to the very first Emperor, Augustus, who ruled from 27 B.C. to A.D. 14. Augustus' predecessor and adoptive father, Julius Caesar, had been assassinated...
...2nd century, the Senate was ready to vote for any bully or bribegiver who thrust himself forward. Among the worst of Emperors was Commodus, a vice-ridden brute who enjoyed fighting in the arena as a gladiator and was murdered by his favorite concubine and a wrestler. He was succeeded by the aged Pertinax, who tried to institute reforms, only to be murdered after 86 days by the unreformable Praetorian Guard. This garrison of swaggerers, who for a time held the real power in Rome, then insolently auctioned off the imperial throne to a wealthy Senator named Didius Julianus...