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What does contemporary mean in this context? i.e. what's not considered 'contemporary'
by ithinkso 5y ago
What does contemporary mean in this context? i.e. what's not considered 'contemporary'
- dotancohen 5y agoI mean that we don't consider them "long gone". Their teachings are as relevant today as they were at the time of their lives. We consider Adam, Noah ancient. But the Romans? Might as well have been last week.
- gilleain 5y agoWell I would consider Adam and Noah to be mythologial rather than ancient. Even Moses, who might have lived around the 13th century bc would have been 1000 years after Sargon of Akkad. There is a lot of history to go around, so many peoples and civilisations that we know of, and so many that we do not.