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But this Mary is essentially an intellectual construction. An abstract image, much as it may be the face of any Greek statue of Phidias and Praxiteles hana japan in dublin ca them. Ideal metaphorical hana japan in dublin ca abstract concept, hana japan in dublin ca rather than a human being. But this concept was built from a human being, a woman of flesh and blood who lived, suffered through moments of joy and immense suffering of others. The real Maria, must have been like? Is a question that has its interest: meet the parents is often the key to understanding children. hana japan in dublin ca The biographies of Tiberius spend many pages talking about Livia. Maybe Mary is also worth the effort.
The problem is that she did not know much. Jesus was born in Bethlehem, and in fact we do not have no idea where he was born. It is difficult to take seriously the story of the ox and the mule herders angel warning, and indeed all Christian iconography representing the Holy Family as Joseph, hana japan in dublin ca Mary and the child hides the essential fact that Jesus was born of the heart a large family, five brothers and three sisters least likely. In fact, much of which takes the popular imagination today admitted he has no solid foundation. But there are enough fragments to say something. Thinking hana japan in dublin ca about how little we know can be enough to make a sketch of Mary that could be far more interesting than many would think.
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By the first century BC, Aramaic as a spoken language hana japan in dublin ca had spread among many of the peoples of the area currently corresponds to Syria, Jordan and Israel. Hebrew as a spoken language disappeared usual, almost. Conserved in all the synagogues, hana japan in dublin ca in the sacred writings which rabbis read - and, moreover, meant that much of the Old Testament has been preserved

hana japan in dublin ca in its original Hebrew version. Moreover, hana japan in dublin ca the area called Judea contours vague, was not the only place where you could find Jewish population: there were some judaicas communities throughout the Hellenistic kingdoms that had inherited the empire of Alexander the Great. In one of these kingdoms became an essential step. In the Ptolomeus Egypt - Pharaohs of Greek origin, who were always seen as foreigners by native Egyptian population - Pharaoh then decided it was necessary to incorporate a new piece to his already huge library of Alexandria Great Jewish book, the book of books we know as the Old Testament. The work lasted many years, it seems that Pharaoh started being Philadelphia and ended Filomètor time of Ptolemy VI (181-145 BC), although the details vary depending hana japan in dublin ca on the source strength. The Jewish hana japan in dublin ca colony in Alexandria was very large, and could assemble hana japan in dublin ca a team of clerks Jews, seventy-two according to tradition (the figure was soon rounded to 70), whose mission is to translate that great work on Greek which had become the lingua franca - the language and culture - the whole Middle East region. In this way was born the Bible called the Septuagint, or the Septuagint, which was long version of reference for those who could not read the original Hebrew, which indeed were the majority.
Tradition says that although several hana japan in dublin ca were seventy-two translators, whose work overlaps - several translators could be responsible for a book, or portions of a particular book - finally the Greek version of all of them was exactly matching, which had to be interpreted as a direct divine intervention. We know that among the different versions there could be differences Vegadeo