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Arab money. for Abu Dhabi, nothin like credit crunch, nothin like recession . . . 

Manchester united will jegba, with or without Adebayor 

Nothing will happen to Adebayor. He will play this weekend.

*ghetto cuban accent* We call our lawyer. He's the best lawyer in Miami london. He's such a good lawyer, that by tomorrow morning, Wenger gonna be working in Alaska. So dress warm.

@ remii . . eshe fun alaye. owo yin a ma ro ke. ile ishe yin o ni jo na

@ dayokanu. .  ere ni mo n se ni igba to mo pe e ni showoff o. ele yi ti o fe sa sun ekun bi i omo ojo meta. abi o gbagbe sense of humor e si sports section ni?   rora o. Ma a be gi fun e.  

Arsenal is going to drill multiple holes into these guys. i feel sorry for them

RuuDie:
Has he been the target of more abuses than Samuel Eto'o or other players that play in european ligues where racism is almost uncurtailable. . . .  how many times has Eto'o incited a semi-riot in any stadium with provocative actions or gestures.

YOu obviously don't EVER watch la liga. Eto'o has done everything from threatening to leave the pitch, to a monkey dance (against zaragoza) after scoring a goal, to spitting on a players face, amongst several other incidents. I can only find two videos on youtube right now, but i'll be looking and i'll post others later. These Arsenal fans just refuse to be objective. How can u have a debate with people that are not being reasonable? Maybe Adebayor could have been less "emotionally charged", but Arsenal fans deserved what they got. If that was Eto'o he would have done worse, TRUST ME ON THAT!!! Eto'o don't take no shit from nobody.

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If fans chanted racist shit at me na cantona style flying drop kick dem go chop for mouth. Nonsense.

OP, no mind dem jare. U're just tellin it like it is.

Na to dey chop steak and cheese cake dem sabi. When u start to dey chase non-naija dem go start to dey call u sell-out. Who wan dey fukc lump of fat. abeg jare, check urself b4 u wreck urself. Altho some naija girls just get natural shape wey solid. But for the most part na protruding belly juss full ground. truth hurts. . .

dayokanu:
O ga o.
Gbogbo oya ni n pe ara re ni pdu, Sugbon Puro n niyi, ete ni muwa.

kini n je "pdu', ati eyi ti o wa ni bold? bloody showoff, pscchheeww!!

The Siloam Pool in Jesus’ Time
Jerusalem

The Siloam Pool has long been a place of sacred significance to many Christians, even if the correct identification of the site itself was uncertain. According to the Gospel of John, it was at the Siloam Pool where Jesus performed the miracle of restoring sight to the blind man (John 9:1–11). Traditionally, the site was believed to be the pool and church that were built by the Byzantine empress Eudocia (c. 400–460 A.D.) to commemorate the miracle recounted in the New Testament. However, the exact location of the pool itself as it existed during the time of Jesus remained a mystery until June 2004.

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During construction work to repair a large water pipe south of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, on the ridge known as the City of David, archaeologists Ronny Reich and Eli Shukron identified two ancient stone steps. Further excavation revealed that they were part of a monumental pool from the Second Temple period, the period in which Jesus lived. The structure Reich and Shukron discovered was 225 feet long, with corners that are slightly greater than 90 degrees, indicating a trapezoidal shape, with the widening end oriented toward Tyropoeon valley. The pool is adjacent to the area in the ancient City of David known as the King’s Garden, and is just southeast of the remains of the fifth-century church and pool originally believed to be the sacred site.

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The pool is fed by waters from the Gihon Spring, located in the Kidron Valley. As with many sites in the Holy Land, the origins of the Siloam Pool reach back even further in history—at least seven centuries before the time of Jesus. Judah’s King Hezekiah (late eighth century B.C.) correctly anticipated a siege against Jerusalem by the Assyrian monarch Sennacherib. To protect the city’s water supply during the siege, Hezekiah undertook a strategic engineering project that would be an impressive feat in any age: He ordered the digging of a 1,750-foot tunnel under the City of David to bring water from the Gihon Spring, which lay outside the city wall, inside the city to a pool on the opposite side of the ridge. In the years that followed, “Hezekiah’s Tunnel” continued to carry fresh water to this section of Jerusalem, and different pools were built here over the centuries, including the Second Temple pool that Jesus knew.
What was the function of the pool during Jesus’ time? The naturally flowing spring water would have qualified the pool for use as a mikveh for ritual bathing. However, it could also have been an important source of fresh water for the inhabitants on that side of the city. One scholar has even suggested that it was a Roman-style swimming pool. Whatever its original purpose, the pool remains a place of great significance to many Christians, and its discovery represents a watershed moment in the field of Biblical archaeology.

The end. For now

St. Peter’s House
Capernaum

For much of his adult life, Jesus resided in the small fishing village of Capernaum on the Sea of Galilee. It was here that he began his ministry in the town synagogue (Mark 1:21), recruited his first disciples (Mark 1:16–20) and became renowned for his power to heal the sick and infirm (Mark 3:1–5).

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Early travelers to the site had long recognized the beautifully preserved remains of the ancient synagogue that many thought marked the site, if not the actual building, of Jesus’ earliest teachings. But an important question still remained: Where in the town had Jesus actually lived? Where was the house of Peter, where the Bible suggests Jesus stayed while in Capernaum (Matthew 8:14–16)?
As first reported in BAR more than 25 years ago, Italian excavators working in Capernaum may have actually uncovered the remnants of the humble dwelling Jesus once called home while in Capernaum.
Buried beneath the remains of a Byzantine martyrium church, excavators found the ruins of a rather mundane dwelling dating to the first century B.C. Although slightly larger than most, the house was a simple structure supported by coarse basalt fieldstone walls and roofed with nothing more than earth and straw. Like most early Roman-period houses, it consisted of a few small rooms clustered around two open courtyards. In a word, the house was ordinary. According to the excavators, however, it is what happened to the house after the middle of the first century A.D. that marked it as exceptional and most likely the home of Peter.
In the years immediately following Jesus’ death, the function of the house changed dramatically. The house’s main room was completely plastered over from floor to ceiling—a rarity for houses of the day. At about the same time, the house’s pottery, which had previously been basic domestic wares such as cooking pots and bowls, now consisted entirely of large storage jars and oil lamps. Such radical alterations indicate that the house no longer functioned as a residence but instead had become a place for communal gatherings, possibly even Christian gatherings.
More important, the excavators found that during the ensuing centuries, the plastered room from the original house had been renovated and converted into the central hall of a rudimentary church. The room’s old stone walls were buttressed by a newly built two-story-high arch that, in turn, supported a new stone roof. The room was even replastered and painted over with floral and geometric designs of various colors.
The Christian character of the building was confirmed by more than a hundred graffiti scratched into the church’s walls. Most of the inscriptions, according to the excavators, say things like “Lord Jesus Christ help thy servant” or “Christ have mercy.” They are written in Greek, Syriac or Hebrew and are sometimes accompanied by etchings of small crosses or, in one case, a boat. The excavators claim that the name of St. Peter is mentioned in several graffiti, although many scholars now dispute these readings.
This simple church survived for more than 300 years before it was finally replaced in the fifth century by a well-built octagonal martyrium church. Octagonal martyria were built to commemorate an important site, such as the original house that once stood here. The inner sanctum of the octagonal building was built directly above the remains of the very room of the first-century house that had formed the central hall of the earlier church.
Thus, even though there is no definitive proof that the original house uncovered by the excavators actually belonged to Peter, there is layer upon layer of circumstantial evidence to support its importance in earliest Christianity and association with Jesus and his foremost disciple. Were it not for its association with Jesus and Peter, why else would a run-of-the-mill first-century house in Capernaum have become a focal point of Christian worship and identity for centuries to come?

Babylonian Siege Tower and Arrowheads
Jerusalem

In 586 B.C., the armies of Nebuchadnezzar attacked Jerusalem, burned the city and destroyed the Temple (2 Kings 25:1–17). Sick and starving survivors were deported in what became known as the Babylonian Exile. Thus ended the 400-year dynasty of King David.

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The fall of Jerusalem was preceded, however, by two years of armed resistance. Archaeology provides a dramatic physical narrative of the conflict. In the 1970s, while excavating in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City, archaeologist Nahman Avigad excavated the remains of a watchtower from the late First Temple period (eighth and seventh centuries B.C.), now 45 feet below ground, that still stood to a height of more than 22 feet with walls 12 feet thick. Less than 150 feet away from the tower was a 22-foot-thick city wall, now known as the Broad Wall, that also protected the city.
This wall and watchtower helped confirm the theory that the city had expanded to the western ridge (now called Mt. Zion) during King Hezekiah’s reign (727–697 B.C.) before the city and its inhabitants were threatened by the Assyrian armies of Sennacherib. The Assyrians, however, were unable to conquer Jerusalem, protected as it was by this fortification system. Both the wall and watchtower were still standing when Nebuchadnezzar’s men laid siege to Jerusalem in the early sixth century.

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Adjacent to the base of the tower, Avigad also uncovered remains of fortifications that date to the Hasmonean period 500 years later (second–first centuries B.C.). The construction of this later structure was vastly better than the earlier watchtower, with nicely squared ashlar stones in alternating header/stretcher courses compared to the crude boulders and chinking stones of the earlier tower, apparently constructed in haste. Only the corner stones of the earlier tower were shaped into square ashlars.
While the discovery of the wall system was a substantial contribution to our understanding of Jerusalem in the Israelite period, Avigad’s watchtower brought to light an even more dramatic snapshot of the forces that faced the city during the Babylonian siege. Around the base of the watchtower, a thick layer of charred wood, ashes and soot bore witness to the raging fire that accompanied the Babylonian destruction. Among the charred rubble, excavators found five arrowheads: four of iron, and one of bronze. The bronze arrowhead was of the Scytho-Iranian type used by the Babylonian army (see “The Riches of Ketef Hinnom”). The iron arrowheads were typical of those used by the Israelites. Lying in the ashes at the base of the ruined watchtower, these five small artifacts gave poignant testimony to the furious clash that preceded the fall of Jerusalem nearly 2,600 years ago.

more to come . . .

chic2pimp:
LOOK@ DIS LONELY SADDO CHATTING TO HIMSELF. *Shakes His Head*

If I wozz u slap take your head stone wall!! U bloody vulcanizer.

“Yahweh and His Asherah”
Eastern Sinai Desert

In the summer of 1975, while excavating the small Iron Age site of Kuntillet ‘Ajrud in the eastern Sinai desert, archaeologist Ze’ev Meshel happened upon a handful of painted sherds that would forever change our perception of early Israelite religion.

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Upon the shattered fragments of a large eighth-century B.C. storage jar, Meshel found an inscription that referred to “Yahweh of Samaria and his Asherah.” As Asherah was a well-known goddess of the Canaanite and Phoenician pantheons, the inscription, written in ancient Hebrew, suggested that at least some Israelites believed Yahweh had a female consort, an aspect of Yahwistic faith ignored by the more orthodox Biblical writers. This and other inscriptions found at the site also offered clear evidence that Yahweh was worshiped in a variety of regional guises within ancient Israel, including the northern “Yahweh of Samaria” and the more southern “Yahweh of Teiman.”

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But these were not the sole religious insights provided by the sherds. Painted just below the inscription were two standing bovine-like figures, as well as a seated woman playing a lyre. If the inscription and drawings are linked, as many scholars believe, it is likely that two of the roughly painted figures represent Yahweh and his Asherah. Some scholars believe that the larger bovine figure, drawn to resemble a bull, represents Yahweh, while the smaller bovine figure should be interpreted as the goddess and consort Asherah. Other scholars, however, have proposed that the bull figures are actually representations of the androgynous Egyptian deity Bes and that the third human figure playing the lyre represents Asherah. It is also possible that a flowering sacred tree flanked by two ibexes, painted on the opposite side of the vessel, was intended to be a depiction of Asherah.

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The site of Kuntillet ‘Ajrud, situated along a major caravan route through the Sinai desert, attracted both travelers and pilgrims from across ancient Israel, many of whom left blessings and divine images that reflected their diverse origins and beliefs. The findings from Kuntillet ‘Ajrud provided archaeologists, historians and religious scholars with fresh perspectives on the religious life of ancient Israel and archaeological evidence that Israelite religion—far from being the single monolithic Yahwistic faith depicted in the Bible—was practiced and understood in a variety of ways.

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Tel Dan (“David”) Stela
Northern Israel
In the world of modern Biblical archaeology, few discoveries have attracted as much attention as the Tel Dan stela—the ninth-century B.C. inscription that furnished the first historical evidence of King David outside the Bible.

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Discovered in 1993 at the site of Tel Dan in northern Israel in an excavation directed by Israeli archaeologist Avraham Biran, the broken and fragmentary inscription commemorates the victory of an Aramean king over his two southern neighbors: the “king of Israel” and the “king of the House of David.” In the carefully incised text written in neat Aramaic characters, the Aramean king boasts that he, under the divine guidance of the god Hadad, vanquished several thousand Israelite and Judahite horsemen and charioteers before personally dispatching both of his royal opponents. Unfortunately, the recovered fragments do not preserve the names of the specific kings involved in this brutal encounter, though most scholars believe the stela recounts a campaign of Hazael of Damascus in which he defeated both Jehoram of Israel and Ahaziah of Judah.
For many scholars and especially the broader public, what was most exciting about the stela was its unprecedented reference to the “House of David.” The stela’s fragmented inscription, first read and translated by the renowned epigrapher Joseph Naveh, proved once and for all that David was a genuine historical figure and not simply the fantastic literary creation of later Biblical writers and editors. Perhaps more important, the stela, set up by one of ancient Israel’s fiercest enemies more than a century after David’s death, still recognized David as the founder of the kingdom of Judah.
There were skeptics, however, especially the so-called Biblical minimalists (see “BAR’s Crusades”), who attempted to dismiss the “House of David” reading as implausible and even sensationalistic. In a famous BAR article, Philip Davies argued that the Hebrew term bytdwd referred to a specific place (akin to bytlhm or Bethlehem) rather than the ancestral dynasty of David. Such skepticism aside, however, most Biblical scholars and archaeologists readily accepted that the Tel Dan stela had supplied the first concrete proof of a historical David.
Even though the Tel Dan stela has confirmed the essential historicity of David, scholars have reached little consensus about the nature and extent of his rule. Was David the great king of Biblical lore who founded his royal capital at Jerusalem and established an Israelite kingdom? Or was David a ruler of only a tribal chiefdom, as Israel Finkelstein of Tel Aviv University contends? Questions like these, which lie at the heart of the complex relationships among archaeology, history and the Bible, will continue to be debated in the pages of BAR for years to come.

more to come. . .

Stepped Stone Structure
Jerusalem
Perhaps more than any other find from the City of David, the massive Stepped Stone Structure stands as a momentous reminder of just how grand David and Solomon’s Jerusalem might have been. Although at first glance it appears to be little more than a towering mass of twisted stone and rubble, this unique 12-story-high foundational structure—the largest Iron Age construction in Israel—likely supported a major fortress or administrative building. As archaeologist Eilat Mazar first reported in BAR, it may have even been used to buttress David’s palace.

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Since the first steps of the massive structure were revealed in the 1920s, generations of archaeologists have puzzled over exactly who built the edifice and why. The great Kathleen Kenyon, who excavated much of the structure in the 1960s, dated portions of the stepped facade to Iron Age IIa, the period of David and Solomon. After his excavations in the 1980s, Yigal Shiloh agreed with Kenyon that the Stepped Stone Structure itself dated to the time of the United Monarchy, but that the feature’s substructure and rubble core was originally built at the end of the Late Bronze Age (13th century B.C.) or during Iron Age I (1200–1000 B.C.). These earlier terraced walls, Shiloh believed, were the fortifications of the ancient Jebusite “Fortress of Zion” that confronted David and his forces as they attacked the city (2 Samuel 5:7; 1 Chronicles 11:5). The debate over the exact date and function of the Stepped Stone Structure has continued to rage in the pages of BAR.
Still other scholars believe the Stepped Stone Structure is actually part of the mysterious Millo that appears several times in the Bible. Perhaps originally a Jebusite structure, the Millo appears to have been vital to the organization and defense of the City of David. Upon capturing Jerusalem, David is said to have “ built the city round about from the Millo inward” (2 Samuel 5:9), and later kings, including Solomon and Hezekiah, undertook major initiatives to ensure that the Millo remained strong and sound (1 Kings 9:15; 2 Chronicles 32:5).
But what exactly was the Millo? In most English translations of the Bible, the word is left untranslated, for the Biblical writers made no attempt to describe the structure or its exact whereabouts. The word itself is thought to derive from the Hebrew root ml’ (“filling”) and thus many scholars have suggested that the Millo was a massive constructional fill that supported the royal citadel. If so, the Stepped Stone Structure would seem to be an ideal candidate. But not so fast. As first argued by Kenyon, a better candidate for the Millo may actually be a series of broad stone terraces uncovered along the eastern slope of the City of David. These terraces, which nearly doubled the buildable area of the narrow ridge, would have supported a large number of private and public buildings and thus would have required constant repair and upkeep.

more to come. . .

haha. . .sorry guys. just realized u had to get membership. we can log in 4 free thru school and i didn't know the link wouldn't work for general access. i'll copy the stuff and post it here in a little bit.

tubabie:
OK o motigbo.Emi ro pe atheist lo je ni pelu gbogbo isokuso ti o maa n so  Pluralist ke? Krayola2 indeciveness o daa o, choose one and stick with it. Anyway maa gbadun ara e.

haha. isokuso ko o. Just because something makes people uncomfortable doesn't make it untrue. I embrace all positive philosophies and reject dogma. mi o le so o ni yoruba, so tireedi yi ko la mati so eleyi. gbogbo religion lo da, ko si eyokan ti o da ju ikeji lo. Ti wo n ba ti bo si owo awon alagbara (politics) ni o ma n di dogma to n fa gbogbo confusion.

chic2pimp:
Federer had a bad day @ the office thats all. What y'all fail to mention is the numerous chances Fedex had to close out the second set and effectively the match.

I see Federer winning two grandslams next year. Make no bones about it,Fedex is still TOPDOG.

Federer got his ass kicked jare. Dey give am beatin, the rest na story. Ur hero is a chump. 2 grandslams ko, 4 champions league ni. Otu oshi

Mukina2, oya do your job and make threads for the CL .  Which kind fake mod u be sef? 

I pity the team that plays Arsenal. Dem go chop one kind unforgettable beating. Frustrations unleashed on their poor innocent souls. 

@ tubabie. mi o ki i se atheist. Pluralist ni mi. But ni ori NL won feran la ti ma label eyan.

Amin o. Ki ohun to da ma te le e kiiri

dayokanu:
Eni a wi fun oba je ko gbo,

Mo so fun gbogbo yin pe Tubabie ni oluwa.

ifeleke ri efon labata o yo obe ti. O fe di "Mario" si oro tubabie.

Eniyan tan ara re bi iya olomo kan, ti won ni omo re nko? Ti o so pe ewo ninu won

Won n tan e o n tan abela!!!

  ogbologbo ni bobo yi sha. lesson tisha e wa ko mi ni ede. emii naa fe ma so ijinle pam pam

Taking a course on the bible and archaeology this term, and just finished my 1st class  . This isn't an anti-christian thread so all atheists get the fukc out now  !! I'll just be posting some cool stuff, that y'all might find interesting, from time to time. Hope you enjoy it.

Here's a link to some of the great archaeological finds related to the ancient Canaanites and early christians. some pretty cool stuff there. enjoy 

http://www.basarchive.org/bswbBrowse.asp?PubID=BSBA&Volume=35&Issue=4&ArticleID=15&UserID=2174&

mukina2:
was dat necesarry?
go easy on the cuss words, this is sports

 abeg no vex nah.  But I'm about the only Man Citeh supporter here and I have to defend my boys. I can't let these guys juss keep bashing him non-stop nah. me sef get mouth. .

A-40:
Only a savage barbarian with shit-bricks for brains would argue otherwise!

hehehe. That would be MOI!!! Ade and I are cut from the same cloth. We fukc the shit outta lil bitches and make them bleed. We're animals. . .predators, and u guys got done!! deal with it, PUTAS!!

  ADe wan kill am ni sha!!   

Oya sorry, make una no vex. . . All is fair in love and war. The game is over now . . . Can't we all just get along? 

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presido1:
To be honest Ade looked stupid on that his run.  His mouth was wide open like fool.

hahah. When i saw him running i was like "whats wrong with this fool?" and then i saw the Arsenal fans all pissed off, and it all made sense.

He really looked silly though

allboyz:
ADE - still got all this shyte AFRICAN POVERTY MENTALITY in his DUMB BRAINS!!!!!

Ade has a right to be pissed off and i hope he goes to the Emirates and fukcs arsenal up again.

Because the guy is from Togo abi? he is "razz" abi?, He can't speak good English and isn't exactly the most fashionable player out there, these oppressive minds and their slavemaster mentality think he doesn't deserve anything good out of life. They prefer their "sophisticated and refined, classy" players with "finesse and savoir faire" . . . .ooohh. . . .  clowns!!

It's ok for RVP to go two footed but it isn't ok for Ade, someone that knows these guys and how small minded they are, to stomp his face and give him Togolese tribal marks. It is only Dr Kitaun that has been able to admit the obvious. That Ade had to be sharp as a samurai sword and agile as a monkey to avoid all the tackles that were aimed at crippling him. How many times did he have to jump into the air to avoid tackles that were never intended for the ball.

Even if he gets banned, it's all good. He'll be back to play at the Emirates and that is when he will make it official that Wenger is a bumbling buffoon for selling him. Adebayor is a bad guy. . .a thug from Togo. he as been thru hell and y'all have no idea how brave and strong that guy is. You think he's worried about a bunch of wenger-dikc- sucking aje butters? Una never jam!!  

Man City shits all over Arsenal. We're here to stay, BITCHES!! EAT A DIKC, ALL OF U!!

E kaaro o, eyin eyan mi. Ki Olodumare ma sho gbo gbo wa si ona ire   (guide us to path of goodness)

eni ni ibeere term tun tun, term ipaari ile iwe mi. Ni agbara olodumare mo ma de opin ni december, emi naa ma graduate di big boys. E jo o e ba mi fi adura sii o. Ki olodumare sho gbgbo yin, ohun kohun ti e ba wa ki e ri ni opolopo (plenty blessings for u).  

FL Gators:
Be more specific w/ dayo. How many languages inside or outside of the bedroom?

Why don't u tell us How many languages does he speak in the bedroom, and what language do u respond in?

dk u be bad guy o. How many languages do u speak?

translation "what colour is ur pynt?, let me see"