As a means of recording the passage of time, the 11th century is the period from 1001 to 1100 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian/Common Era. In the history of European culture, this period is considered the early part of the High Middle Ages. There was a sudden decline of Byzantine power and rise of Norman domination over much of Europe, along with the prominent role in Europe of notably influential popes. In what is now Northern Italy, a growth of population in urban centers gave rise to early organized capitalism and more sophisticated, commercialized culture by the late 11th century.
In Song Dynasty China and the classical Islamic world, this century marked the high point for both classical Chinese civilization, science and technology, and classical Islamic science, philosophy, technology and literature. There was also a population explosion in China, doubling to the size of 100 million, and an economic revolution in China that spurred manufacture and production rates which rivaled even Great Britain's coal and iron output in the early Industrial Revolution. The Islamic world experienced a similar growth with the Muslim Agricultural Revolution, which led to greater mechanization and economic growth in the Islamic world.
Rival political factions at the Song Dynasty court created strife amongst the leading statesmen and ministers of the empire. Chola-era India and Fatimid-era Egypt, had reached their zenith in military might and international influence. The Western Chalukya Empire (the Chola's rival) also rose to power by the end of the century. In this century the Turkish Seljuk dynasty comes to power in the Middle East over the now fragmented Abbasid realm, while the first of the Crusades were waged towards the close of the century. In Japan, the Fujiwara clan continued to dominate the affairs of state. In the Americas, the Toltec and Mixtec civilizations flourished in central America, along with the Huari Culture of South America and the Mississippian culture of North America. In Ukraine, there was the golden age for the principality of Kievan Rus. In Korea, the Goryeo Kingdom flourished and faced external threats from the Liao Dynasty (Manchuria). In Vietnam, the Lý Dynasty began, while in Myanmar the Pagan Kingdom reached its height of political and military power.
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Q. Bits and pieces of the Old Testament were floating around and the first book as we know it today of the OT was compiled in the 11th century. Even the dead sea scrolls only contain a small piece of it, a few pages worth. So would Jesus have been familiar with the story of Genesis and all the books or what parts of the OT were studied during his lifetime? Per wikipedia the Dead Sea Scrolls date from some time between 60BC to 150 AD meaning there's a greater chance they were written after Jesus. I've done a lot of research and the first and oldest compiled OT today dates to the 11th century. What I mean is we don't know if they were written 60BC OR if they were written as late as 150AD and they are only a very small part of the OT. They weren' [cont.]
Asked by Icecream - Mon Apr 13 03:49:10 2009 - - 12 Answers - 0 Comments
A. Epic failure. The 5 Books of Moses and the rest of the Hebrew bible were around long before Jesus. There were also many religious texts that did not make it into the current version of the Bible. Since religion was a central part of first century Jewish life it is not unreasonable to thing that Jesus would have been well versed in them. The current version of the Bible started to take shape in the 4th century, and was more or less compiled in the 5th. Even that is long before your time frame. p.s. 60 b.c to 150 ad is the 1st century b.c. to the first and second century a.d. The oldest known copy of the Bible (complete Bible) in the world is the Codex Sinaiticus, dating from the 3rd or 4th century A.D. The Codex, while not only… [cont.]
Answered by I'm skyclad - Mon Apr 13 04:03:53 2009
