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β‐Caryophyllene, a Compound Isolated from the Biblical Balm of Gilead (Commiphora gileadensis), Is a Selective Apoptosis Inducer for Tumor Cell Lines [PDF]
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2012, Issue 1, 2012., 2012 The biblical balm of Gilead (Commiphora gileadensis) was investigated in this study for anticancerous activity against tumor cell lines. The results obtained from ethanol‐based extracts and from essential oils indicated that β‐caryophyllene (trans‐(1R,9S)‐8‐methylene‐4,11,11‐trimethylbicyclo[7.2.0]undec‐4‐ene) is a key component in essential oils ...
Eitan Amiel +6 more
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Literary Adaptations of Jewish Sages in the Works of Josephus Flavius
Classica Cracoviensia, 2015 Literary Adaptations of Jewish Sages in the Works of Josephus Flavius The paper focuses on the Judeo-Hellenic writers composing in times of Roman occupation, especially on works created by Josephus Flavius.
Aleksandra Wojtasik
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Flavius Josephus – zwischen Historiographie und Autobiographie
Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 2018 : This article deals with the ‘Roman’ Historian Flavius Josephus, who had his roots in a foreign region (in Jerusalem and beyond) and lived as an immigrant in Rome after the biographical interruption constituted by the bellum Iudaicum. This paper aims to
Sven-Philipp Brandt
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The ‘Maria Story’ in Greek, Latin, & Hebrew
Judaica, 2022 This article provides the first close comparative analysis of the Greek, Latin, and Hebrew versions of the ‘Maria Story’ or teknophagia, the account of the mother who ate her child within a besieged Jerusalem first recorded in Flavius Josephus’ Jewish ...
Carson Bay
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Race, Racism, and the Hebrew Bible: The Case of the Queen of Sheba
Religions, 2021 The Queen of Sheba, best known for visiting Solomon at the height of his rule, is commonly understood to be one of the most famous Black queens of the Bible.
Jillian Stinchcomb
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Nordisk Judaistik, 1985 Judendomens historia (Hanne Trautner-Kromann, 1983) is reviewed by Karl-Johan Illman.Josefus som historieskriver (Per Bilde, 1983) is reviewed by Nils Martola.Den antike jødedom.
Karl-Johan Illman, Nils Martola
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Review of: Wittkowsky Vadim. The LukeActs Dilogy: Composition and Synoptic Sources. Moscow: Biblical Theological Institute, 2022. 728 p. [PDF]
Вестник Екатеринбургской духовной семинарии, 2023 The reviewed monograph is dealt with the problem of the origin of two books of the New Testament — the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles. According to the original hypothesis of the author of the monograph, both Books as literary works are ...
Alexander A. Tkachenko
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Cezarea/Wieża Stratona w wybranych źródłach pisanych
Vox Patrum, 2012 In my paper I have tried to present briefly a history of Caesarea in Palestine, relying on the Greek and Latin sources. Originally, the city was called Straton’s Tower, but it became famous in the Roman Empire as Caesarea.
Daria Keiss-Dolańska
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Image Encryption Using the Chaotic Josephus Matrix
Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Volume 2014, Issue 1, 2014., 2014 This paper presents a new image encryption solution using the chaotic Josephus matrix. It extends the conventional Josephus traversing to a matrix form and proposes a treatment to improve the randomness of this matrix by mixing chaotic maps. It also derives the corresponding encryption primitives controlled by the chaotic Josephus matrix.
Gelan Yang, Huixia Jin, Na Bai, Yue Wu
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Disease and the Christian Discourse of Jewish Death in "De Excidio Hierosolymitano" 5, 2
Vox Patrum, 2021 The late-fourth century work called On the Destruction of Jerusalem (De Excidio Hierosolymitano), or “Pseudo-Hegesippus”, records the history of the Roman-Jewish War (66-73 CE) and particularly the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple by the Romans ...
Carson Bay
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