SINCE GAZA IS SO MUCH IN THE NEWS THESE DAYS…             Back in Biblical days Gaza figured into quite a few stories. First, there was Caleb and Josua who scoped out the what would be the promised land before the Hebrews conquered Palestine. One of the places they sighted was Gaza, which the Hebrews eventually…

ROMAN MORAL THEORY             There were two main ethical theories that dominated during the Roman Empire days which were Epicureanism and Stoicism. First there was Epicureanism after the thinker Epicurus (341-270 BCE). He was an Athenian thinker who founded his own “Garden” where his followers lived in order to practice his moral outlook on life.…