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crucifixion
George Ronald Watson and Andrew Lintott
Crucifixion seems to have been a form of punishment borrowed by the Romans from elsewhere, probably *Carthage. As a Roman penalty it is first certainly attested in the *Punic Wars. It was normally ...
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Ioannes Damascenus, priest-monk and theologian, 650/675?–c. 750 CE
Andrew Louth
Little is known of the life of John of Damascus, save what can be deduced from his taciturn writings and a few references to him in chronicles; the later Greek life is unreliable. He seems to have ...
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