Divine Messengers in Genesis 18-19 and Ovid

Stories of divine messengers who bring an announcement of an impending birth or a warning to escape destruction are found in Gen 18-19 and the writings of Ovid. Two sets of stories deserve close attention because of their great similarities. Three divine messengers promise a child to Abraham and Sarah and three Greek gods promise a son to Hyrieus in Ovids Fasti. Two divine messengers save Lot from the destruction of Sodom and two Greek gods save Philemon and Baucis from flooding in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Perhaps the biblical author was familiar with the traditions used by Ovid.     

An 18th-Century Mansion,a Fishpond,and Post-Medieval Finds from St. Neots,Huntingdonshire

Abstract

The remains of Hall Place, St. Neots, a late 17th- or early 18th-century house facing Church Street, were encountered during the excavation of an Anglo-Saxon settlement in 1961. Hall place had been built over the site of a large timber-lined cutting, perhaps a fishpond, which had been filled up with domestic rubbish and demolition debris during the course of the 16th century. The fishpond contained a large group of finds including both local and imported pottery, metalwork and leather objects. Pits, wells and other late and post-medieval structures and features were also found in the garden areas behind Hall Place and other Church Street houses.