The past year brought the first decade of the new millennium to a close with several long-time champions reasserting themselves.

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The second millennium really wasn't longer than the first millennium, it's just that I ran out of board!

第二个千年不比第一个千年长，只是黑板不够写了！

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Scholars of the Albright school pointed to texts and clay tablets that were discovered in second millennium sites. So you see down on the bottom the second millennium BCE, obviously going down to 1000; first millennium: 1000 to 0.

亚布莱特学院的学者们指的是,两千多年前的遗址中发现文件和泥板文献，你们看下面,公元前第二个千年，再显然的,往下到一千年；第一个千年是公元前1000年到公元元年。

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What second millennium Hebrews and early first millennium Israelites or Judeans, Judahites, actually believed or did is not always retrievable, in fact probably not retrievable, to us. We have some clues.

西元前2000年的希伯来人和前1000年早期的以色列人,或者说犹太人，犹太民族所信仰的和所做的，不是每次，都能复原，事实上可能无法复原，我们掌握了一些线索。

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