BASAM
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> The Encyclopaedia Britannica says, among many other
> things, with regard to Tyre:
> "The silted up harbor on the south side of the peninsula
> had been excavated by the Institut Francais d"Archeologie
> de Beyrouth, but MOST OF THE REMAINS OF THE PHOENICIAN
> PERIOD STILL LIE BENEATH THE PRESENT TOWN."
Hmmmmm.
Do I have a defrant Britnaica???
My Ecyc. Brit. 1995 says:
"For much of the 8th and 7th centuries the town was subject
to Assyria, and in 585-573 it successfully withstood a
prolonged siege by the Babylonian king Nebuchadrezzar II.
Between 538 and 332 it was ruled by the Achaemenian kings of
Persia. In this period it lost its hegemony in Phoenicia but
continued to flourish. Probably the most famous episode in
the history of Tyre was its resistance to the army of the
Macedonian conqueror Alexander the Great, who took it after
a seven-month siege in 332, using floating batteries and
building a causeway to gain access to the island. After its
capture, 10,000 of the inhabitants were put to death, and
30,000 were sold into slavery. Alexander's causeway, which
was never removed, converted the island into a peninsula."
It carrys on
"Tyre was subsequently under the influence of Ptolemaic
Egypt and in 200 became part of the Hellenistic Seleucid
kingdom; it finally came under Roman rule in 68 BC. It was
often mentioned in the New Testament and was famous in
Roman times for its silk products and for a purple dye
extracted from snails of the genus Murex. By the 2nd
century AD it had a sizable Christian community, and the
Christian scholar Origen was buried there (c. 254). Under
Muslim rule from 638 to 1124, Tyre grew prosperous as part
of the kingdom of Jerusalem, a crusader state in the 12th
and 13th centuries. The Holy Roman emperor Frederick I
Barbarossa, who died on the Third Crusade, was buried in
its cathedral (1190). Captured and destroyed by the Muslim
Mamluks in 1291, the town never recovered its former
importance."
> The World Book encyclopedia has, pg. 542:
> "Alexander conquered the city in 332 B.C. and built a
> road from the mainland to the Island, creating a peninsula FROM WHICH
> THE PRESENT TOWN OF TYRE --also called Sur-- STANDS."
> [caps mine]
Do I also have a dfrant World Book Ency.????
Mine says: " Egypt controlled Tyre before about 1100 B.C.
Tyrians carried on trade for the Egyptians with the peoples
of Asia Minor and the Aegean Sea. The city enjoyed its
greatest prosperity between 1100 and 573 B.C. Part of that
time, Tyre was ruled by Assyria and then by Babylonia.
Tyre founded several colonies, including Carthage on the
Mediterranean coast of North Africa.
In 573 B.C., King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylonia crushed a
13-year Tyrian revolt. Alexander the Great conquered the
city in 332 B.C. and built a road from the mainland to the
island, creating a peninsula upon which the present town of
Tyre--also called Sur--stands. Tyre later became a part of
the Roman and then Byzantine (East Roman) empire. Christian
crusaders occupied the city from A.D. 1124 until Muslims
captured it in 1291."
Oh no I dont have another one its Just Adnan Half quating
it.
(Sniped for shortining the post)
> Thus, the bible predicted:
> "thou shalt be built no more" Ezek. 26:14
> But it was.
No it was not:
Nina Jidejian in here book Tyre through the
ages, dar al mashriq publishers, Beirut, 1969 says: "Tyre
the lady of the sees and the cinter of the trading world at
its time, hs gone FOR GOOD!! the fisher men has put ther
nets on its old historical stons. The stons of the great
Tyre are nowdays to be found in Beirut, 'akron, but the old
Tyre hase fallin. There is nothing left of it exe[t few
stons"
> It says, "never be found again." (21)
Have you ever heard of poetic language? or do you believe
that there is mane is going to be tide in chain 70 aram
long?
> It says THAT THOU BE NOT INHABITED
Metaphore again
Bassam