Prehistoric Cultures
Class Slides Set # 01B
Tim Roufs’ section
Kinds of Major Finds
and
Announcements
of the
Past Quarter Century:
Biblical Archaeology
Relative Dating
places finds in a sequence
but provides no actual estimate in number of years
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/11/1107_051107_oldest_church.html
http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/nation/13382304.htm
“… The fish symbol is seen in the Greek word for
“fish”
ICHTHUS
spelled: Iota Chi Theta Upsilon Sigma
That is an acrostic for
"Jesus Christ, of God, the Son, the Savior"
Iesous [Jesus] CHristos [Christ] THeou [of God]
Uiou [the Son] Soter [the Savior]
An acrostic is an "arrangement of words in which the first letter of each line
ordinarily combines with others to form a word or words or the alphabet.“
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4411286.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4411286.stm
http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthtribune/9419042.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4427144.stm
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/18/ap/world/mainD8F7BDS03.shtml
http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/nation/13854051.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4648598.stm
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/22/opinion/polls/main965223.shtml
http://www.answersingenesis.org/
http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/12804316.htm
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/11/22/opinion/polls/main657083.shtml
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5932128/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/10/1018_041018_science_religion.html