Word: 3rd
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...other hand, the theological significance of Ebla may be nil. Although the city was once a great commercial center, trading with Canaan and regions beyond, Matthiae insists that tablets from the 3rd millennium B.C. are far too old to have any important links with the much later texts of the Old Testament. Moreover, Ebla's language is problematic. "Eblaite" is a Semitic tongue written in cuneiform characters borrowed from Mesopotamia...
...suggestion that the Elaites might have been the ancestors of today's Israelis fell into Middle East politics like a missile. Israeli archaeologists shuddered. The Syrians detected Zionist designs in the notion and persuaded Matthiae and Pettinato to warn other scholars publicly against making ethnic linkages between the 3rd millennium B.C. and the 20th century...
...written down more than 1,000 years later than the events they purport to describe. Now, in the area of the world that produced the Bible, Ebla has established that sophisticated and extensive written culture existed well before Moses and even Abraham, as early as the middle of the 3rd millennium B.C. According to the ebullient Dahood, "After Ebla, we've got to take the Bible much more seriously as a historical document. The people who wrote those books had a long literary tradition behind them...
Close to 100 East Cambridge residents rallied outside the 3rd District Middlesex County courthouse in their section of the city yesterday to protest state plans to turn part of the courthouse into a prison...
...start we set out to build a beautiful factory...By 'beautiful,' we at Philip Morris meant: a new approach to factory design. We saw no reason why a building in which people spend approximately eight hours of each working day need be ugly, forbidding or institutional." Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Chairman of the Board. Philip Morris...