--- Dwayne Monroe <idoru345 at yahoo.com> wrote:
"Also, reading Gibbon tends to make you write, if only for a short time, like Gibbon: or as near as you can manage."
Yes, wonderful, isn't it!
BW
> Chris Doss:
>
> I have no problem with believing in massacres
> committed bt ancient
> Hebrews (the Bible has plenty of them), but my
> ability to believe is
> stretched by whole "licking up the blood" thing.
>
> .............
>
>
>
> It seems to me that Gibbon's main point is that
> there was an often
> brutal struggle between Nazarene (primitive
> Christian) and non-Nazarene
> Jews and also, more broadly, between the Empire and
> Jewish revolutionaries.
>
> These struggles, we're reasonably encouraged to
> believe, led to cycles
> of violence and a severe frame of mind which
> explains the various
> ancient periods of persecution.
>
>
> Also, reading Gibbon tends to make you write, if
> only for a short time,
> like Gibbon: or as near as you can manage.
>
>
>
>
> .d.
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