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  Wikipedia: Golden Rule
BCE "Whatever is disagreeable to yourself do not do unto others." - Shayast-na-Shayast 13:29, Zoroastrianism.
~500 BCE "Now the man of perfect virtue, wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks also to enlarge others.
150s BCE "This is the sum of duty: Do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you." - Mahabharata 5:1517, Brahmanism and Hinduism.
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 Informat.io on Greco Bactrian Kingdom
There is a possibility that the 210 BCE Terracotta Army of the first great Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang, with its colored life-size realism and technical virtuosity, may have been inspired by Greek statuary, as there is no prior evidence of any Chinese realistic life-sized human statues before the reign of Qin.
It is not clear whether the incursion of the Yueh-Chih consisted in an invasion of the Greco-Bactrian territory, or possibly a resettlement in front of the Xiongnu attacks from the north, reminiscent of the Roman practice of the foederati.
Their dynasty was probably thrown out of Bactria after 170 BC by the new king Eucratides, but remained in the Indian domains of the empire at least until the 150s BCE.
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 Re: Dss related questions (copper scroll)
In 168 BCE he was soundly crushed by the Romans in Egypt and forced to flee to the North.
Because of this defeat, he was forced to pay an extreme level of tribute to the Romans, something that forced him to rob all of the temples in his empire, including Jerusalem.
When the Hasmoneans came to power, circa 159 BCE, pro-Ptolemaic forces or semi-independent armies, such as the one possessed by Hyrcanus, lay on their Eastern border.
orion.mscc.huji.ac.il /orion/archives/1996b/msg00606.html   (1443 words)

  
 Biblical canon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Evidence suggests that the process of canonization of the Tanakh occurred between 200 BCE and 200 CE.
Based on this evidence, some scholars have suggested that by the 2nd century BCE the books of the Torah and Nevi'im were considered canonical, but that the books of the Ketuvim were not.
The Septuagint (LXX) translation of the Hebrew language Bible into Koine Greek, probably in the 1st and 2nd centuries BCE, provided a text for the Greek-speaking world, and was used by the writers of the New Testament.
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 Re: Dss related questions (copper scroll)
I don't understand on what historical basis you believe the Ptolemies remained in control of and maintained property in portions of Palestine into the Hasmonean period.
Actually, no. Not if you are talking 159 BCE, which is when you suggest the copper scroll treasures were hidden.
Even as late as 159 BCE, after the death of Hyrcanus, > there was likely support for the pro-Ptolemaic Oniads in the region formerly tied > to Hyrcanus.
orion.mscc.huji.ac.il /orion/archives/1996b/msg00594.html   (1148 words)

  
 The Ten Standards of Good Citizenship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
This is a code we can teach to our children, hang on our walls in courts and in congress, that complements our society and our religious heritages, without imposing a religious bias on those who have no stake in a religious code.
500 BCE "Do not unto others what you would not have them do unto you." - Analects 15:23, Confucianism.
300 BCE "One should not behave towards others in a way which is disagreeable to oneself.
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 146 BCE Definition / 146 BCE Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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 The Definitive Guide to Greco-Bactrian Kingdom XXXX   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
There is a possibility that the 210 BCE Terracotta Army of the first Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang, with its colored life-size realism and technical virtuosity, may have been inspired by Greek statuary, as there is no prior evidence of any Chinese realistic life-sized human statues before the reign of Qin.
Before uniting China, the Qin was the westernmost state of the Chinese culture area, located in southeastern Gansu, and was the most likely to receive such influence.
The Yuezhi further expanded southward into Bactria around 120 BCE, apparently further pushed out by invasions from the northern Wu-Sun.
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 Chanukah--its universal message — A Jewish Magazine, an Interfaith Movement
     When Alexander died at the end of the fourth century bce, his empire split into three rival factions, and Judea was caught between two of them: the Seleucids, centered in Syria, and the Ptolemies, centered in Egypt.
In 165 bce they retook Jerusalem, purified and rededicated the Temple (Chanukah means dedication), and rekindled its eternal light.
     But something political and miraculous had happened: a critical mass of people recognized in the 160s and 150s bce that there was a Force in the world that made possible the transformation of what is to what ought to be.
www.tikkun.org /rabbi_lerner/news_item.2005-12-23.8808198005   (2397 words)

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