We have a Sumerian story about the third millennium BCE, going back 3000--third millennium, 3000 BCE.

苏美尔人有一个关于公元前三千年，一直往回3000年，公元前。

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so they've got the Millennium Bridge in it, and you see lots of landmarks.

电影里有千禧桥，你可以看到很多标志性建筑。

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But in all likelihood Hebrews of an older time, the patriarchal period, the second millennium BCE--they probably weren't markedly different from many of their polytheistic neighbors. Archaeology would suggest that.

但很有可能更早的，西元前2000年族长统治时期的希伯来人，他们可能和其他信仰多神论的异邦人,没有什么太大的不同，这一点考古学会帮我们证明。

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Well, I'm based here. We're near the Millennium Bridge,

是的，我在这里土生土长。我们在千禧桥附近，

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The second millennium really wasn't longer than the first millennium, it's just that I ran out of board!

第二个千年不比第一个千年长，只是黑板不够写了！

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Scholars of the Albright school pointed to texts and clay tablets that were discovered in second millennium sites. So you see down on the bottom the second millennium BCE, obviously going down to 1000; first millennium: 1000 to 0.

亚布莱特学院的学者们指的是,两千多年前的遗址中发现文件和泥板文献，你们看下面,公元前第二个千年，再显然的,往下到一千年；第一个千年是公元前1000年到公元元年。

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The polis is not merely a city state in the same way as,let us say, the Mesopotamian city states of the third millennium B.C. Were.

那就是城邦不仅仅是一座城市,并不是像,我们说的公元前三千年的,美索不达米亚的城市

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What second millennium Hebrews and early first millennium Israelites or Judeans, Judahites, actually believed or did is not always retrievable, in fact probably not retrievable, to us. We have some clues.

西元前2000年的希伯来人和前1000年早期的以色列人,或者说犹太人，犹太民族所信仰的和所做的，不是每次，都能复原，事实上可能无法复原，我们掌握了一些线索。

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You reach Egypt, and of course, Egypt is one of the great empires of antiquity going back into, perhaps, certainly into the fourth millennium, possibly into the fifth, by no means as powerful as it used to be, far from it.

你来到了埃及的领地,当然,埃及是古代最伟大的帝国之一,它有近四千年,甚至五千年的历史,毫无疑问,古埃及达到了空前绝后的强大

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