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The honey motif comes from Ezekiel 2:8 - 3:3 and has an interesting story behind it I would be most interested in reading of this "interesting story". Josephus, Ant... , 14, 7, 4: "...Aristobulus had no enjoyment of what he hoped for from the power that was given him by Cesar; for those of Pompey's...

Klewis -- You have some good insights. That is, where you agree with me, I think you are correct :cheers: First, the book of Revelation was written after 70 CE... decades after the destruction of Jerusalem while depicting its writing prior to its destruction (see Rev 10:1-11). I believe you are corr...

In short, I don't know if the authors of the genealogies of Matthew and Luke relied on a common source, and what it may have said. DCH -- As far as Matthew goes, I offer an idea: Josephus, Ant... , 14, 1, 3: "It is true that Nicolatls [sic] of Damascus says, that Antipater was of the stock of the p...

Before you multiply entities, at least look on the ground for other possibilities. Excuse me, Charles, but I consider a total idiocy these your words in this thread. It is here where you betray yourself as a sincere - the more sincere, in my view - historicist of the forum (and I use the term as an...

John is from the Mishmarot Group Bilgah which has committed an offense against the Priesthood ( http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/3298-bilgah ). The created "Jesus" character is a rewrite of a Priest of Immer and therefore "follows" Bilgah but ranks ahead of Bilgah because of Bilgah's Offen...

Thank you, DCH. I'm always looking for rewritten Source Stories and you may be right. With the rewritten Source Stories in the NT there is generally a word or phrase that acts as a pointer to the Original. Mark 5:15 (RSV): [15] And they came to Jesus, and saw the demoniac sitting there, clothed and ...

Luke 2: 36 - 38 (RSV): [36] And there was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phan'u-el, of the tribe of Asher; she was of a great age, having lived with her husband seven years from her virginity, [37] and as a widow till she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fast...

Thank you, Giuseppe. I owe this one to you. A few years ago, I noticed that Josephus was not entirely TRUTHFUL , as he had claimed, in writing his histories. "Who performs sacrifices in the Temple?", f'rinstance. Josephus doesn't tell you in Wars... , 2, 1, 3 and Ant... , 17, 9, 3. Josephus is of Ro...

BTW, do the Romans have anything to do with this? After all: "The surname is from Latin Pīlātus (“a Roman cognomen”, literally “armed with javelins”), from pilum (“javelin, pestle”), of unknown ultimate origin." "You'd better escape on your donkey real fast, Barabbas, or you're gonna get a bunch of ...

SA -- I'm having a not so good day so please save your usual "Fuck you, fuck you, you stupid fuck" banter for another time. "I come to praise SA..." SA is correct here (for the most part...) The Logical Positivists had their Verification Principle: "The meaning of a proposition is to be found in the...