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The Alexander Romance is basically a piece of historical fiction, It is not a reliable source for evidence about Alexander's death. Andrew Criddle I just want to clarify that the arsenic hypothesis is not dependent on Alexander Romance . All of the evidence for the hypothesis can be found in earlie...

In this thread, I will try to present arguments for the arsenic hypothesis. For a general overview of this topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Alexander_the_Great https://www.academia.edu/27158916/Alexander_the_Great_A_Questionable_Death https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24369045/ Wikipedia ...

For those who are interested in the historicity of the David & Goliath story, this video made by the Sergio & Rhoda in Israel channel contains some information about the presumed location of the combat. From the description of the video: Recent discoveries make it possible to pinpoint the lo...

@rgprice I see the formal difference between the events and the narratives of those events but I think this difference doesn't really matter in our case. My point was about statistical significance of similarities. In both cases (events and narratives of events) we can enumerate many statistically i...

Do the passages from Samuel and Livy have far more specific commonalities than, for example, historical accounts of Lincoln and Kennedy? Lincoln–Kennedy coincidences: Both were elected to congress in '46: Lincoln was elected in 1846 from Illinois, and Kennedy was elected in 1946 from Massachusetts. ...

Parallels Interesting parallels but in my opinion both accounts (Livy and Bible) could be describing real events. I mean history tends to repeat itself and it would be strange if there were no parallels at all. So there are some similarities but not enough for me to see a dependence on one source. ...

A quick overview of the topic is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_Ham Regarding the birth order of Noah's sons, Kugel has some interesting remarks: Traditions of the Bible: A Guide to the Bible As It Was at the Start of the Common Era James L. Kugel Harvard University Press, 1998 Pages 2...

All information is from this book: Crucifixion in the Mediterranean World John Granger Cook ISBN 978-3-16-153124-8 2014 by Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen Introduction § 3.5 Origen probably used the LXX’s expression ξύλου διδύμου to describe the object in his homilies on Joshua, and Rufinus translated the ex...