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Much of the population, swollen with refugees fleeing Saladin's conquest of the surrounding territory, was allowed to flee to Tyre, Tripoli, or Egypt ( whence they were sent back to Europe ), but those who could not pay for their freedom were sold into slavery, and those who could were often robbed by Christians and Muslims alike on their way into exile.
Colocasia is thought to have originated in the Indo-Malayan region, perhaps in eastern India and Bangladesh, and spread eastward into Southeast Asia, eastern Asia, and the Pacific islands ; westward to Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean ; and then southward and westward from there into East Africa and West Africa, whence it spread to the Caribbean and Americas.
The more important centres ( e. g. Antioch for Syria, Ephesus for the Province of Asia, Alexandria for Egypt, Rome for Italy ), whence Christian missionaries issued to preach the Gospel, were regarded as the mother-churches ( hence the Greek term metropolitan ) of the newly-founded Christian communities.
In 1799 he set out with a Mr Cripps on a tour through the continent of Europe, beginning with Norway and Sweden, whence they proceeded through Russia and the Crimea to Constantinople, Rhodes, and afterwards to Egypt and Palestine.
The " Magdalen " papyrus was purchased in Luxor, Egypt in 1901 by Reverend Charles Bousfield Huleatt ( 1863 – 1908 ), who identified the Greek fragments as portions of the Gospel of Matthew ( Chapter 26: 23 and 31 ) and presented them to Magdalen College, Oxford, where they are cataloged as P. Magdalen Greek 17 ( Gregory-Aland < sup > 64 </ sup >) and whence they have their name.
The merchants that start from Spain or France go to Sus al-Aksa ( in Morocco ) and then to Tangier, whence they walk to Kairouan and the capital of Egypt.
During the 8th to 7th centuries BC, Napata was the capital of the Nubian kingdom of Kush, whence the 25th, or Nubian Dynasty conquered Egypt.
In 107 BC, as relations deteriorated between Lathyros and his mother and co-ruler, Cleopatra III, he was forced to leave Egypt and his wife, first to Cyprus to raise an army, and then to south Syria from whence he tried, in 103 BC, to invade Egypt.
Ptolemy IV of Egypt: " By some historians of Egypt is said to have poisoned his father, whence he received the surname of Philopater, by antiphrasis.

Egypt and according
Prior to his death, according to the Book of Jubilees, Amram was among those who went to Egypt and recovered the bones of the sons of his grandfather and great uncles ( excluding those of Joseph which had already been brought to Canaan ), so that they could be reburied in the cave of Machpelah.
* 1479 BC – Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut ( according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty ).
According to this view, the story of Jacob's visit to Laban to obtain a wife originated as a metaphor for this migration, with the property and family which were gained from Laban representing the gains of the Joseph tribes by the time they returned from Egypt ; according to textual scholars, the Jahwist version of the Laban narrative only mentions the Joseph tribes, and Rachel, and does not mention the other tribal matriarchs whatsoever.
Octavian complained that Antony had no authority for being in Egypt ; that his execution of Sextus Pompeius was illegal ; that his treachery to the king of Armenia disgraced the Roman name ; that he had not sent half the proceeds of the spoils to Rome according to his agreement ; that his connection with Cleopatra and the acknowledgment of Caesarion as a legitimate son of Julius Caesar were a degradation of his office and a menace to himself.
The Book of Numbers is named after the counting of the Israelite population ( in ) according to the house of the Fathers after the exodus from Egypt.
Christmas according to the Coptic calendar was adopted as an official national holiday in Egypt since 2002.
In Egypt, where the climate is intensely dry, there would be no fear of their warping, but in other countries it would be necessary to frame them, which according to Vitruvius ( iv.
The ancient Jewish people were also often viewed as being knowledgeable in magic, which according to legend they had learned from Moses, who himself had learned it in Egypt.
* Tarleton Boys: Boyd, Tom, and the twins, Brent and Stuart: The red-headed Tarleton boys were in frequent scrapes, loved practical jokes and gossip, and " were worse than the plagues of Egypt ," according to their mother.
Eventually Io settled in Egypt, where according to Ovid she became the Egyptian goddess Isis.
: After the establishment of settled life in Egypt in early times, which took place, according to the mythical account, in the period of the gods and heroes, the first.
The shrine of Dodona was the oldest Hellenic oracle, according to the fifth-century historian Herodotus and in fact, dates to pre-Hellenic times, perhaps as early as the second millennium BC when the tradition probably spread from Egypt.
After studying seven years with the Elder Palaemon, Pachomius set out to lead the life of a hermit near St. Anthony of Egypt, whose practices he imitated until, according to legend, he heard a voice in Tabennisi that told him to build a dwelling for the hermits to come to.
God also intentionally directed the Israelites away from the Philistines upon their exit from Egypt according to Exodus 13: 17.
It started in Egypt, and reached Constantinople the following spring, killing ( according to the Byzantine chronicler Procopius ) 10, 000 a day at its height, and perhaps 40 % of the city's inhabitants.
These titles refer to a legendary story, according to which seventy or seventy-two Jewish scholars were asked by the Greek King of Egypt Ptolemy II Philadelphus to translate the Torah from Biblical Hebrew into Greek, for inclusion in the Library of Alexandria.
Networks were in existence at around 12, 000 BCE Anatolia was the source primarily for trade with the Levant, Iran and Egypt according to Zarins study of 1990.
525 BC, when, according to Herodotus, the tyrant Polycrates of Samos was able to contribute 40 triremes to a Persian invasion of Egypt.
However, according to Claudia Zaslavsky's book Tic Tac Toe: And Other Three-In-A Row Games from Ancient Egypt to the Modern Computer, Tic-Tac-Toe could originate back to ancient Egypt.
Despite the bible's story, according to which the Israelites originated from Mespotamia via slavery in Egypt, the evidence indicates that they were native to Canaan.
* Northern statue of the Colossi of Memnon is shattered by an earthquake in Egypt ( according to Strabo ).
Fowl had been known in Egypt since the 18th Dynasty, with the " bird that gives birth every day " having come to Egypt from the land between Syria and Shinar, Babylonia, according to the annals of Tutmose III.
* The Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, according to Thrasyllus of Mendes, an Egyptian mathematician and astronomer who lived in the reign of Tiberius ( c. 1691 BC ).

Egypt and Exodus
It was during the prolonged absence of Moses that Aaron yielded to the clamors of the people, and made a Golden Calf as a visible image of the divinity who had delivered them from Egypt ( Exodus 32: 1-6 ).
This new Exodus is repeatedly linked with Israel's Exodus from Egypt to Canaan under divine guidance, but with new elements.
* The land between Egypt and Canaan of the first Exodus was a " great and terrible wilderness, an arid wasteland " ( Deut 8: 15 ), but in this new Exodus, the land between Babylon ( Mesopotamia ) and the Promised Land will be transformed into a paradise, where the mountains will be lowered and the valleys raised to create level road ( Isa 40: 4 ).
The centrepiece of Solomon's reign is the building of the First Temple: the claim that this took place 480 years after the Exodus from Egypt marks it as a key event in Israel's history.
During on-location filming in Egypt of the Exodus sequence for 1956's The Ten Commandments, the then-75-year-old DeMille climbed a 107-foot ladder to the top of the massive Per Rameses set and suffered a near-fatal heart attack.
Easter is linked to the Passover and Exodus from Egypt recorded in the Old Testament through the Last Supper and crucifixion that preceded the resurrection.
:* Shemot, on Exodus 1-5: Affliction in Egypt, Moses is found and called, Pharaoh
:* Va ' eira, on Exodus 6-9: Plagues 1 to 7 of Egypt
:* Bo, on Exodus 10-13: Last plagues of Egypt, first Passover
Douglas Stuart in his commentary on Exodus puts it this way: " In Egypt, Israel was the servant of Pharaoh ; at Sinai they became God's servants.
It describes events in the Old Testament of the Bible, specifically Exodus 7: 16: " And the Lord spoke unto Moses, go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, thus saith the Lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me ", in which God commands Moses to demand the release of the Israelites from bondage in Egypt.
Genesis ends with Israel in Egypt, ready for the coming of Moses and the Exodus.
The " patriarchal history " recounts the events of the major patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to whom God reveals himself and to whom the promise of descendants and land is made, while the story of Joseph serves to take the Israelites into Egypt in preparation for the next book, Exodus.
Jewish holy days ( chaggim ), celebrate landmark events in Jewish history, such as the Exodus from Egypt and the giving of the Torah, and sometimes mark the change of seasons and transitions in the agricultural cycle.
* Passover ( Pesach ) is a week-long holiday beginning on the evening of the 14th day of Nisan ( the first month in the Hebrew calendar ), that commemorates the Exodus from Egypt.
Later, Jacob and his children were enslaved in Egypt, and God commanded Moses to lead the Exodus from Egypt.
According to the books Exodus, Numbers and Joshua, he became the leader of the Israelite tribes after the death of Moses ; his name was Hoshe ' a the son of Nun, of the tribe of Ephraim, but Moses called him Yehoshu ' a ( Joshua ) () the name by which he is commonly known ; and he was born in Egypt prior to the Exodus, and was probably the same age as Caleb, with whom he is occasionally associated.
After the Ten Plagues, Moses led the Exodus of the Israelites out of Egypt and across the Red Sea, after which they based themselves at Mount Sinai, where Moses received the Ten Commandments.
Artapanus goes on to relate how Moses returns to Egypt with Aaron, and is imprisoned, but miraculously escapes through the name of YHWH in order to lead the Exodus.
" Tacitus states that, despite various opinions current in his day regarding the Jews ' ethnicity, most of his sources are in agreement that there was an Exodus from Egypt.
Martin Noth holds that two different groups experienced the Exodus and Sinai events, and each group transmitted its own stories independently of the other one, writing that " The biblical story tracing the Hebrews from Egypt to Canaan resulted from an editor's weaving separate themes and traditions around a main character Moses, actually an obscure person from Moab.

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