Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus This work was translated by William Whiston and edited by the folks at Sage Software, who offer these works, as well as hundreds of ancient and modern authors, on CD from (I am not associated with Sage Software, but left the plug for their CD in place because it is from their production of the text that my work here is based.) HTML conversion was performed from RTF and Microsoft Word sources locally. Preface Book I Containing The Interval Of Three Thousand Eight Hundred And Thirty-Three Years. Chapter 1 The Constitution Of The World And The Disposition Of The Elements. Chapter 2 Concerning The Posterity Of Adam, And The Ten Generations From Him To The Deluge Chapter 3 Concerning The Flood; And After What Manner Noah Was Saved In An Ark, With His Kindred, And Afterwards Dwelt In The Plain Of Shinar Chapter 4 Concerning The Tower Of Babylon, And The Confusion Of Tongues Chapter 5 Chapter 6 How Every Nation Was Denominated From Their First Inhabitants
Bible's Buried Secrets The Bible's Buried Secrets PBS Airdate: November 18, 2008 NARRATOR: God is dead, or so it must have seemed to the ancestors of the Jews in 586 B.C. WILLIAM G. NARRATOR: For out of the crucible of destruction emerges a sacred book, the Bible, and an idea that will change the world, the belief in one God. THOMAS CAHILL (Author, The Gifts of the Jews): This is a new idea. LEE I. NARRATOR: Now, a provocative new story from discoveries deep within the Earth and the Bible. EILAT MAZAR (Shalem Center): We wanted to examine the possibility that the remains of King David's palace are here. WILLIAM DEVER: We can actually see vivid evidence here of a destruction. AMNON BEN-TOR (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Question number one: "Who did it?" NARRATOR: An archaeological detective story puzzles together clues to the mystery of who wrote the Bible, when and why. GABRIEL BARKAY (Bar-Ilan University): And it was clear that it was a tiny scroll. RON E. P. THOMAS CAHILL: This is a new idea.
Platonic Solids (PRIME) The so-called Platonic Solids are regular polyhedra. “Polyhedra” is a Greek word meaning “many faces.” There are five of these, and they are characterized by the fact that each face is a regular polygon, that is, a straight-sided figure with equal sides and equal angles: It is natural to wonder why there should be exactly five Platonic solids, and whether there might conceivably be one that simply hasn't been discovered yet. However, it is not difficult to show that there must be five—and that there cannot be more than five. First, consider that at each vertex (point) at least three faces must come together, for if only two came together they would collapse against one another and we would not get a solid. Now, each interior angle of an equilateral triangle is 60°, hence we could fit together three, four, or five of them at a vertex, and these correspond to to the tetrahedron, the octahedron, and the icosahedron. And that makes five regular polyhedra. Contributors , author Citation Info