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Digging Around Nazareth
The Essenes were massacred and son had little or no time to dispose of property.
frankbeswick, on 08/14/2024
The Infancy Narratives: the story behind Christmas
We do not know whether Luke and Mary ever met, but she was prominent in the church and so if they went to Christian gatherings someone would have pointed out Mary to Luke.
frankbeswick, on 08/14/2024
Walking the Great Glen
I have some command of Irish Gaelic, but my Scots Gaelic is very limited.
frankbeswick, on 08/14/2024
Understanding Tropism
We have not given up on displays, but as numbers at meetings are small and members are ageing the possibility does not look promising.
frankbeswick, on 08/14/2024
Understanding the doctrine of the Trinity
Syriac is like Latin in the RC. Church, in that it is retained as a liturgical language, but there are some hymns in Aramaic. But Aramaic and Syriac are closelly related, like, for example, Latin and Italian.
frankbeswick, on 08/14/2024
The Quiet Servants
It varies. Ideally they will have some inexpensive mode of transport, such as a motor scooter at their disposal.
frankbeswick, on 08/14/2024
The Case for Jesus:a review
The church Makes no hard and fast rules on fasting, but after some overzealous devotees fasted without water for periods of more than a day. This resulted in physical illness and sometimes psychiatric hallucinations. So to be safe the church ...
frankbeswick, on 08/14/2024
Skymeadow: a review
No, there are no constraints on what can be done with biodegradable CONTAINERS.
frankbeswick, on 08/14/2024
Rising Ground: a review
Maybe some words were preserved in dialect, but I know not of any, but there were a small number of literary texts that preserved some Cornish language.
frankbeswick, on 08/14/2024
Pagan Britain: a Review
Any or all of these could be final destinations for megalith repurposed. It is possible that some were broken up.
frankbeswick, on 08/14/2024
Natural Law Ethics
Humanists disagree among themselves, and many say that individual's own themselves to the extent that they can harm themselves,e.g. drinking oneself to death. Other humanists are more reticent, thinking that society loses by any damage done to ...
frankbeswick, on 08/14/2024
June, 2050: What will the world be like
If it ever happens we will not be alive to see it.
frankbeswick, on 08/14/2024
Jesus Through Pagan Eyes: a Christian Reflection and Analysis
Shamanism was in the ancient culture of Britain, but whether any shamanism survived until the modern era is unlikely.
frankbeswick, on 08/14/2024
Cultivating Marginal Land
Two generational tenancies are gone, now we have short term rentals. Thatcher introduced these and called it progress.
frankbeswick, on 08/14/2024
Cultivating Marginal Land
Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question.
Your first answer advises us that "Once we used to have three-generation agricultural tenancies for rented farms, so children and grandchildren could take ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/13/2024