The
1,900-year-old papyrus contains over 500,000 such documents found in the
ancient Egyptian town of Oxyrhynchus by researchers Bernard Grenfell and Arthur
Hunt about a century ago. The study and publication of so many papyri is a long
and slow task that has been going on for a century. Recently, volume 80 was
published, containing studies and decipherments of about 30 medical papyri
found at Oxyrhynchus, including the papyrus with the hangover treatment. The
collection includes medical treatises and treatments for a wide variety of
ailments, including hemorrhoids, ulcers, tooth
problems, some fragments discussing eye surgery and they even contain a cure
for a hangover. See picture and read complete article at -- http://www.livescience.com/50544-ancient-hangover-cure-discovered.html?cmpid=514645
The witnesses, laying their coats at the feet of Saul, were the men that would cast the first stones at Stephen in Acts 7. Why did they all lay their coats at Saul’s feet? The Talmud contains a very interesting account of the act of stoning that may provide the answer. “When the trial was over, they take him [the condemned person] out to be stoned. The place of stoning was at a distance from the court, as it is said, ‘Take out the one who has cursed.’ [i] A man stands at the entrance of the court; in his hand is a signaling flag [Hebrew sudarin = sudar , ‘scarf, sweater’]. A horseman was stationed far away but within sight of him. If one [of the judges] says, ‘I have something [more] to say in his favor,’ he [the signaler] waves the sudarin , and the horseman runs and stops them [from stoning him]. Even if [the condemned person] himself says, ‘I have something to say in my favor,’ they bring him back, even four of five times, only provided that there is some substance to...
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