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Once upon a time there was a man called Alexander the Great, He was a great Greek king whose armies conquered a lot of teritory, After his death his Empire was deivivded between his Diadochoi, Antigonus got Syria and around it , Ptolemy got Egypt and around it , and they kept fighting over more Land ,,,, In israel ....Other Diadochoi got other parts of that Empire ... We than had a family of Macabees who lead our people to Religious and political freedom ,, But some people , mostly the rich adapted some of the Greek ways of life esp the Worship of sports and The human body ,,, That was the Conflict that is one of the roots of Christianity ,, Years alater when the Romans conquered Israel , and some of Jesus students spread his teaching, it spread mostly to Greek speaking societies ,, Greek educators were the most favoured Slaves and house workers in Roman noble houses , and they were the peole who spread Christianity in the Roman society... mirjam

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mirjam
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Interesting post. (Did you know that your keyboard appears to have a stutter on the comma and full stop?)

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Bruce Fletcher (Stronsay, Orkn

Don`t you think you should credit the original writer, purely for interest?

Pat

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Pat P

Wiki has a good item on Christianity at

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Bruce Fletcher (Stronsay, Orkn

I'm sure there are many excellent sources for this information in many libraries, but since the original post does not appear to be a direct quote and since the information itself would appear to be in the realm of general knowledge of people with a background in history of that era, formal citation would appear unnecessary. (This would be similar to someone writing that the US had a civil war in the 1860's when Abraham Lincoln served as President of the US -- general knowledge to those with a background in history of the era, not a direct quote, and thus not needing a citation.) As my father used to say, peering over the top of his glasses, "Look it up."

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Mary

The information would appear to be general knowledge, but the theory the information was supporting - that Alexander's conquest of the Levant led to conflicts which are at the root of the spread of Christianity - is surely proprietary and should be properly attributed.

Paraphrases, especially of theories and frameworks, are subject to citation under the same rules as quotations.

Elizabeth

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Dr. Brat

I believe the theory is also so well-known as to be in the realm of general knowledge, too. If so, I wouldn't expect a citation. (Admittedly, it's been a while since I've taught term paper processes and requirements, though!)

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Mary

Fair enough. It does sound, though, like I'm not the only one here who has never heard it before.

Elizabeth

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Dr. Brat

I'd heard it in college and listened to a debunking the theory. Barely remembered the Alexander the Great part, no clue as to the no part.

C
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Cheryl Isaak

Interesting - and I'm not going to cite the books, cause I'll have to look for them when we get them from emptying our storage locker. However, I took an entire smeester class, some upper level history elective in "The Rise of Christianity, Fall of the Roman Empire" which covered the period from about

50 BCE through Charlemagne, looking at the demographics, politics, sociology and development of the Middle East and Europe in parallel with religious changes. It was very interesting, taught by a woman who is a Medieval scholar, and had been personally educated parochially (NY, catholic schools). Lots of argument and discussion in class with some of the students who attended a small local Christian college, and were just taking the class for transfer elective credit. But, we had a couple of textbooks that were writings from the period of the earliest days of Christianity, and slightly later. So, to the point - I've had the Alexander the Great theory discussed in class. And lots of time on Constantine, death bed conversions, and how the Christian religion grew from the viewpoint looking at the politics and living situations of the times.

Someday, when I find my old books, I'll give some citations. It was really a great class.

Ellice

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ellice

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