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...disturbed and he caused quite a stir.The three visitors, traditionally called kings or magi, were probably astrologers from Persia. They had arrived in Jerusalem having followed a star from their homeland to Jerusalem. They asked Herod, "Where is He who...
...repentance. That opportunity had passed. His task then was only to announce a coming judgment at the hands Assyria, Babylon and Persia - powers representing other creeds! Isaiah's culture was judged capable of seeing the light regarding their failings only...
...fell in the area: Sumeria, Babylonia and Assyria. By the time Alexander the Great swept through to conquer what had become Persia in 333 BC., the first form of writing -- cuneiform, with its wedge-shaped characters on clay tablets -- already was 2...
...concluded with the burning of Christmas trees. Photos The custom celebrates Epiphany, which recalls how the Three Wise Men from Persia followed the star to Bethlehem to worship the newborn Jesus. See a story on the Feast of the Epiphany in our (Dispatch Photo...
...automobile industry, were sold to royal families of Japan, Persia, Saudi Arabia, Greece and Belgium. This 1933 Pierce Arrow...famous people who have owned Pierce Arrows include the Shah of Persia, Milton S. Florsheim, Emperor Hirohito of Japan, C.W...
...Esther even belonged in the Bible. The Esther story, in brief: Persia's King Ahasuerus (identified as Xerxes, who reigned in 486-465...Apart from the Bible, there's no record of a Jewish queen in Persia, nor was that likely, nor could a Jew have concealed her ethnicity...
...instability in the region and the world. Iran's conflicts with Iraq date back thousands of years to wars between Babylon and Persia. If Iranian influence with Iraqi Shiites enabled them to conquer Iraq, it could begin militant Islam expansion. Millions...
...studied the stars," Schoessow said. "The Magi were from Persia, and they probably specialized in astronomy," he said...always been -- what is this star that led the wise men from Persia to Jerusalem and then on to Bethlehem?" Schoessow said. He...
...its wealth. He also was the "invisible hand" that destroyed their wealth by using adjacent nations (Assyria, Babylon, Persia) as his temporary "servants" to end the kingdom(s). This was because of backtracking on a covenant to love neighbors...
...three gifts, not necessarily three men). An old Ethiopian text, the "Book of Adam," identified the trio as Kings Hor of Persia, Basanater of Saba and Karsudan of "the East." Armenian and Syrian traditions said there were fully a dozen Magi and listed...