While many Sefwi people observed some Jewish laws for centuries including refraining from work on Saturdays this group declared themselves ancestors of ancient Israelites and starting calling themselves Jews.

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And in the ancient world, the reason for this was that this very small rectangle--;it's about 150 miles long and 70 miles wide, about the size of Rhode Island--this very small rectangle lies on the way to anywhere worth going in the Ancient Near East.

在古代，战争的原因是,这小块矩形，长150公里，宽70公里，与罗德岛大小相当，这小块矩形处于要道,这条路通向古代近东的任何地区。

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It illustrates again this idea that how much of this ancient text is it important for you to know, on its own terms,in its historical context in the first century, or how is it important for you to know in the way it's been interpreted for the last 2000 years?

这又一次说明了,你对这部古代文本的了解，是对其本身100年间历史脉络的了解，还是在过去2000年间被解读的,哪个更为重要？

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