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• Roman law
  ...broader sense, one may say that Roman law is not only the legal system of ancient Rome but the law that was applied throughout most of Europe until the end o A view (Jenő Szmodis, 2005) suggests that the ancient roots of the Roman Law derive directly from the Etruscan religion, which pu
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• Orality
  ...rd University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1963. In other societies, such as [[ancient Egypt]] or [[medieval Europe]], literacy has been a domain confined to poli ...patterns, gestures and the bilateral symmetry of the human body in several ancient verse traditions.cited in Ong, p. 34. Marcel Jousse. ''Le Parlant, la par
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• Paper 195 - After Pentecost
  ..._civilization Hellenized]. [[Christianity]] owes much, very much, to the [[Greeks]]. It was a Greek, from Egypt, who so [[bravely]] stood up at [https://en.w ==195:1. INFLUENCE OF THE GREEKS==
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• Paper 95 - The Melchizedek Teachings in the Levant
  ...transmitted to subsequent [[civilizations]] through the [[Hebrews]] and [[Greeks]], much, very much, of the [[social]] and [[ethical]] [[idealism]] of the E ...also augmented by the periodic arrival of [[teachers]] of [[truth]], in [[ancient]] times from the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76 s
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• Sacrifice
  ...[Greek]]s and [[Roman]]s (particularly the purifying ceremony Lustratio) , Ancient Egyptians (for example in the cult of Apis )and from the Aztecs to the Yoru Human sacrifice was practiced by many ancient cultures. People would be [[ritual]]ly killed in a [[manner]] that was supp
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• Paper 83 - The Marriage Institution
  ...ng of the bride over the [[threshold]] is reminiscent of a [[number]] of [[ancient]] [[practices]], among others, of the days of [[wife]] [https://en.wikipedi 83:4.8 One of the most [[ancient]] forms of the wedding [[ceremony]] was to have a [[priest]] [[bless]] the
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• Perfection
  ...6th-century writer Joseph Juste Scaliger, and they in turn referred to the ancient philosopher Empedocles. Their argument, as given by the first two, was that ...t Greeks called them "teleioi." There was, however, no consensus among the Greeks as to which numbers were "perfect" or why. A view that was shared by Plato
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• Paper 89 - Sin, Sacrifice, and Atonement
  ...boos]], all [[expressed]] in the same [[negative]] form as were the most [[ancient]] prohibitions. But these newer codes were truly emancipating in that they 89:1.6 [[Methods]] of eating soon became taboo, and so originated [[ancient]] and [[modern]] table [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etiquette etiquette].
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• Logic
  '''Logic''' (from [[Ancient Greek|Classical Greek]] λόγος [[logos]]; meaning word, thought, idea, ...rvived was that of [[Aristotle]]. Morris Kline, "Mathematical Thought From Ancient to Modern Times, Oxford University Press, 1972, ISBN 0-19-506135-7, p.53 "A
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• Theocracy
  ...ibe the characteristic government for Jews. Josephus argued that while the Greeks recognized three types of government: [[monarchy]], [[aristocracy]], and [[ In ancient Greece and Rome denying the gods of the state was a crime. In ancient Rome, the emperors were often deified.[citation needed]
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• Paper 84 - Marriage and Family Life
  ...f all this it was not strange that women were looked down upon. Even the [[Greeks]] held the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menstruation menstruating] woman ...t_era early Chinese] and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_greece Greeks] treated [[women]] better than did most [[surrounding]] peoples. But the [[
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• Paper 92 - Later Evolution of Religion
  92:2.2 [[Religion]] clings to the [[mores]]; that which was is [[ancient]] and supposedly [[sacred]]. For this reason and no other, stone implements ...find plausible [[theories]] in justification of creedal perpetuation of [[ancient]] and outworn [[customs]].
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• Jewish philosophy
  ...ugh significant differences, both religious and philosophical, distinguish ancient and medieval from much of modern Jewish thought, the subject matter of Jewi ...it. With this end in view Philo chose from the philosophical tenets of the Greeks, refusing those that did not harmonize with the Jewish religion, as, e.g.,
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• Time
  ...ademy ([[378 BCE]]).Jo Ellen Barnett, ''Time's Pendulum'' p.38</ref> The [[Greeks]] and [[Chaldeans]] regularly maintained timekeeping records as an essentia Many ancient philosophers wrote lengthy essays on time. A famous analogy compared the ti
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• Paper 124 - The Later Childhood of Jesus
  ...] [[city]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapolis Decapolis], the ancient [[Hebrew]] [[city]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethshean Beth-shean] ...r]] allude to the [[games]] and other [[athletic]] [[activities]] of the [[Greeks]] as long as his [[father]] lived.
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• Books/Secondary Corpus
  ...reader from the earliest records about human nature in Ancient Egypt, the Ancient Near East, and the Zoroastrian religion, through the secret teachings in th ...thought-provoking mysteries, puzzles, and problems on topics ranging from ancient Greek astronomy to Armageddon. A playground for computer hobbyists, an insp
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• Novel
  ...romances of [[Heliodorus of Emesa|Heliodorus]] and [[Longus]] et al.). The ancient Greek romance was revived by [[Byzantine novel]]ists of the twelfth century ...fficult to determine how much the early "romance" owed to [[ancient Greece|ancient Greek]] models and how much to northern folkloric verse epics such as [[Beo
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• Paper 71 - Development of the State
  ...E_WHITE_RACES white man], who was pursuing the governmental methods of the Greeks and the Romans. 71:5.3 Throughout the [[Ancient|earlier]] ages of any world, [[competition]] is [[essential]] to [[progress
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• Cognitive Science
  ...s to understand the mind and its operation go back at least to the Ancient Greeks, when philosophers such as [[Plato]] and [[Aristotle]] tried to explain the
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• Creativity
  The ancient Greeks, who believed that the [[muse]]s were the source of all inspiration, actual Although neither the Greeks nor the Romans had any words that directly corresponded to the word creativ
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