March 23, , AM. Is the Big Bang in the Bible? Story continues. Our goal is to create a safe and engaging place for users to connect over interests and passions.
In order to improve our community experience, we are temporarily suspending article commenting. Recommended Stories. Women's Health. In The Know by Yahoo. Rockets Wire. Miami Herald. Yahoo Canada Style. Men's Health. New Jersey Herald. Star Tribune Minneapolis. Atlanta Black Star. Sixers Wire.
Thomas Fischer, 54, and Glen de Vries, 49, were identified by police as those killed on Nov. While the preview did not include any footage from the series, concept art appears to […]. The rapper also pledged to offer full refunds to everyone who attended the concert. Find out how many millions he's earning now.
The rural Minnesota family who lost the gravel road to their home is getting it back. In a ruling handed down Thursday, a Kanabec County judge blasted a local township board, calling its actions "unreasonable and absurd" in leaving Renee and Andy Crisman at the mercy of a neighbor who doesn't like them. Hornet Street would leave the Crismans at the will of a neighbor who The ambitious father who turned his two daughters Venus and Serena Williams into tennis […].
Close this content. Read full article. October 17, , PM. Story continues. Our goal is to create a safe and engaging place for users to connect over interests and passions. In order to improve our community experience, we are temporarily suspending article commenting. Recommended Stories. Women's Health. In The Know by Yahoo. Rockets Wire. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories. A religious man from Euless, Texas, who was often seen reading the Bible, was arrested on Monday night in connection with the deaths of three people whose dismembered bodies were found in a burning dumpster, The Washington Post reported.
Jason Alan Thornburg, 41, who was also known to talk about God and expressed a desire to help people, has been charged in the killings of three people - a year-old man and two unnamed women - and allegedly admitted to past murders of two others, NBC DFW reported. Thornburg told investigators that he believed that Leuras should be "sacrificed" and proceeded to cut his throat, dismember his body, and place his remains in plastic storage bins.
About two days later, court documents say, Thornburg decided that a female acquaintance visiting his motel room also needed to be sacrificed. The affidavit says that, once again, Thornburg cut his victim's throat and dismembered her body. Another two days passed before Thornburg set out to kill a new victim, the affidavit says. He strangled a female visitor after trying to stab her initially and also dismembered her body, The Washington Post reported.
Thornburg then transported the remains to a dumpster on the outskirts of Fort Worth and set them on fire, according to police. Lueras was identified by his tattoos, and the two other victims have been identified but not publicly named. During a police interview, according to the affidavit, Thornburg allegedly confessed to the killings and referred to them as "sacrifices. He also confessed to killing an ex-girlfriend in Arizona and sacrificing his roommate in May, the affidavit says.
NBC DFW reported that detectives said that Thornburg had been a person of interest in the death of his year-old roommate, but that officials didn't have probable cause to arrest him. Read the original article on Insider. He said he and his colleagues realized there might be a different way to address the question. Decades earlier, archeologists had uncovered archaic Hebrew ink inscriptions on ostraca, or pottery shards, from a frontier fort called Arad, a remote garrison located far away from Judah's central city, Jerusalem.
Finkelstein said he wondered whether these inscriptions, which were written over the span of a few months in B. To answer that question, Arie Shaus, a mathematics and archaeology doctoral candidate at Tel Aviv University, along with Shira Faigenbaum-Golovin, an applied mathematics doctoral candidate at the university, and colleagues, relied on machine learning.
They used computer programs to scan digital images of the text, systematically fill in missing lines of text and analyze each stroke. Finally, the computer algorithms compared the script on each of the 18 inscriptions to see whether they were written by the same hand. The ancient Hebrew text was written in an Iron Age script that is no longer used.
All told, at least six different people wrote or read the script on the ostracas, including individuals ranging in rank from the commander of the fort, a man named Malkiyahu, all the way down to the deputy quartermaster, a soldier with a low rank, below the person running the fort's storage depots, the researchers reported today April 11 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
While none of these inscriptions were Shakespeare, most were written with proper spelling and syntax, the researchers found. What's more, other border forts have similar ostraca, suggesting that writing at that time was widespread, at least within the Judahite army, the researchers reported.
Other archaeological evidence suggests that no more than , people lived in Judah at the time. Together, these lines of evidence suggest that a substantial fraction of the population possibly several hundreds of people could read and write, Finkelstein said. In order for so many low-ranking soldiers to be able to read and write, there must have been some kind of Judahite educational system, Finkelstein said.
That, in turn, suggests there were enough literate people at that time to compile some portions of the Old Testament , such as the Book of Deuteronomy, parts of Genesis, and the books of Joshua to 2 Kings, Finkelstein said.
By contrast, after the destruction of the first temple, when Israel's educated people were either killed or exiled to Babylonia , there is not so much as a pottery shard, seal or stamp with a single piece of writing from the region for more than years, Finkelstein said. This suggests it's much less likely these books were compiled after the temple's destruction, he said. The findings are very important and dovetail with other lines of research, said Christopher Rollston, a Near East scholar at George Washington University in Washington, D.
There is no doubt that the elites in Judahite society could read and write around B. However, not everyone agrees with all of the paper's assumptions.
0コメント