Re: THE POST-WESTERN MIDDLE EAST
Mike Findlay <[email protected]>
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I learn from this list once again. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 25, 2011, at 10:32 PM, "Peter T. Chattaway" <petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]> wrote: >> http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/3756/26 > >> The last Libyan Jew, Esmeralda Meghnagi, died in 2002, and with her one of the oldest Jewish communities on earth. > > I don't know if I'd heard that before, but that's rather sad. > > Libya, incidentally, is the country in which Cyrene is located -- as in "Simon of Cyrene", the man who helped Jesus carry his cross (and whose wife may have been "a mother" to Paul, a la Romans 16:13). > > Apparently the book of 2 Maccabees is said to have been based on the writings of a Hellenized Jew named Jason of Cyrene, too. And there are other references to Cyrene in the New Testament, as well. > > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Cyrene,_Libya#Cyrene_in_the_Bible > > -- > dadl-ot mailing list > http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot