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Attis in a tree, flanked by Mithras and Helios:

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These names show up in the secondary "so and so send greetings/salutations" which are almost certainly not part of the original letters. Apelles (Romans 16:10) for one shows up. Phlegon is also a name that is dropped in the list in chapter sixteen. The same Phlegon, I presume, who was the freedman ...

To everyone else, I appreciate your comments and for keeping them relevant to the topic at hand.

My post is appropriate for the Jewish forum. It's none of your business where I post what. Let me make this blatantly clear for you: YOU ARE IN NO POSITION TO TELL ME WHERE MY POSTS BELONG. UNLESS YOU ARE A MOD OR THE SITE ADMIN, YOUR WORD MEANS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING REGARDING SUCH ISSUES . Now, unles...

That Aristo(n) is the same figure as Luke is my own opinion. It best explains why there is a stronger tradition for Luke penning the Dialogue of Jason and Papiscus , and a weaker tradition for Aristo of Pella being its author; and how Marcion could have a disciple named Lucan, and Aristo being the s...

My post is appropriate for the Jewish forum. It's none of your business where I post what. Let me make this blatantly clear for you: YOU ARE IN NO POSITION TO TELL ME WHERE MY POSTS BELONG. UNLESS YOU ARE A MOD OR THE SITE ADMIN, YOUR WORD MEANS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING REGARDING SUCH ISSUES . Now, unless...

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Tue Jun 19, 2018 8:08 am

The Hebrew word Image (צלמ) means "off a tree" (צאלים ), figuratively, the shadow cast by a large tree.

Could this relate to Paul saying that Christ is the visible image of God?

You've made enough posts on here to know that the denizens of the Christian forum can answer these questions at least as well as anyone here. I don't understand the reason behind your attitude. I posted this on the Jewish forum--maybe this crossed your mind?--because I wanted predominantly Jewish s...

My question was about Jewish traditions in which Adam was turned into a tree. The Naassenes--as per Hippolytus--syncretized Attis into an Adamic figure; and Attis did become a tree (Hippolytus also says that they believed the earthly Adam sprung up spontaneously from the earth and was immovable unti...