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| | BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | Since the 19th century extensive investigations have been carried out throughout the Middle East, as well as in Greece and Italy, that have made the larger world of the Bible living and real. |
 | | They could be dated to the 4th century ad, but investigation of their character and content showed that they were translations of Greek works of perhaps the 2d century, thus placing them among the earliest known sources for Gnostic Christianity. |
 | | The statue, inscribed in Assyrian and Aramaic and dated around 1000 bc, could be of the greatest value for linguists, especially Aramaists, as this is one of the longest inscriptions of such an early date in that language. |
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