ellauri135.html on line 229: After the surrender of Sebastopol and the transition of the chief of staff of the Crimean army in Odessa, Berg left the service, and until 1868 was not employed at all, leading the life of a tourist. The war of 1859 between Italy and Austria drew Berg in Lombardy, where he was at different headquarters of the French, Italian and at the end of Garibaldi, the detachment of Alpine rifles, wrote a number of correspondences in the "Russian Gazette" in 1859 the Movement in 1860, in the Lebanese mountains between Druze and Maronites drew Berg to the East. He lived in Beirut, Damascus, visited Jerusalem, said, Alexandria. Cairo, pyramids and Keepaway left an inscription, then the first in the Russian language. The fruit of these wanderings there were a few articles in Moscow and St. Petersburg editions and book "Guide to Jerusalem and its surroundings" (1863). During this trip, Berg studied the Bedouin life, which wandered in the wilderness. In 1861 he returned to Russia and has translated a significant part of "pan Tadeusz" (printed in "Domestic. Notes" 1862). Then again, Berg went to the East, lived again in Beirut, Damascus and Jerusalem, and printed about this trip in several articles in "Fatherlands. Notes", "Russian Gazette", "Our time" and SPb. Statements".
ellauri151.html on line 722: Those who believed the gospel of the kingdom, that Jesus was the Messiah, the Son of God, were known as followers of the Way (Acts 9.2, 19.9, 23, 22.4, 24.14, 22). They were not Christians. Christianity did not begin within the borders of Israel; it began outside its borders. Paul was saved outside Israel on his way to Damascus (Acts 9.3-6). Believers first became known as Christians in Antioch, not Jerusalem (Acts 11.25-26).
ellauri171.html on line 976: Jezebel’s marriage to Ahab was a political alliance. The union provided both peoples with military protection from powerful enemies as well as valuable trade routes: Israel gained access to the Phoenician ports; Phoenicia gained passage through Israel’s central hill country to Transjordan and especially to the King’s Highway, the heavily traveled inland route connecting the Gulf of Aqaba in the south with Damascus in the north. But although the marriage is sound foreign policy, it is intolerable to the Deuteronomist because of Jezebel’s competing gods.
xxx/ellauri229.html on line 691: As the research assistant to Professor Damascus Kafumbe, I have:
xxx/ellauri287.html on line 568: Valokuvia ovat vielä: Libanonin setrit, Kalat Simanin basilikan rauniot, Krak de Chevaliers (länsitornit), Vaspasionin ja Tituksen merkintä tunnelissa sekä leikkaus ja tunneli, Selucas; Margabin linnan vallit, kylpylä, Hama (Syyria); Jablehin moskeija, sulttaani Ibrahimin moskeija ja kirkollisen kaupungin portti, Tartus (Syyria); John Whiting, Grace Whiting, yksi heidän pojistaan (?) ja lapsi; uudelleenesitys roomalaisten sotilaiden hyökkäyksestä Jerusalemiin, Jerusalemin YMCA:n pääsisäänkäynti Dr. John Raleigh Mott, Lord ja Lady Allenby (1933-1934); Arabit jauhamassa ateriaa ja ratsastamassa, Jerusalemin 21. piiritys (22. lokakuuta 1938), "Tommies" vartioi Damascus Gatessa, American Colony -asunnossa ja Sea of Galilea Scot´s Mission Hospital, Tiberias.
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