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by MrMacSon
Mon Mar 18, 2024 7:21 pm
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Two Powers in Heaven
Replies: 16
Views: 294

Re: Two Powers in Heaven

In chapter 4 of Two Gods in Heaven: Jewish Concepts of God in Antiquity , Schäfer discusses the so-called Daniel Apocryphon in a fragment of an Aramaic scroll found at Qumran & dated to the late Herodian period—ie., the last third of the first century BCE . Schäfer discusses various details of t...
by MrMacSon
Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:39 pm
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Two Powers in Heaven
Replies: 16
Views: 294

Re: Two Powers in Heaven

Excerpts from Chapter 3 of Schäfer's Two Gods in Heaven: Jewish Concepts of God in Antiquity : Chapter 3 The Divinized Human in the Self-Glorification Hymn from Qumran ... [ T ] he [fragmentary] so-called Self-Glorification Hymn from Qumran...written in the late Hasmonaean or early Herodian period (...
by MrMacSon
Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:03 pm
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Two Powers in Heaven
Replies: 16
Views: 294

Re: Two Powers in Heaven

Excerpts from Chapter 2 of Schäfer's Two Gods in Heaven: Jewish Concepts of God in Antiquity : Chapter 2 The Personified Wisdom in the Wisdom Literature The noncanonical book Jesus Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) is close to Proverbs both chronologically and in terms of content. Sirach was written around 19...
by MrMacSon
Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:05 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The Source of Mark's Naked Youth Narrative?
Replies: 16
Views: 271

Re: The Source of Mark's Naked Youth Narrative?

I should add that in the LXX the last line of Amos 2 reads: 16 And the strong shall find no confidence in power: the naked shall flee away in that day, says the Lord. So, it leaves out warriors. The Hebrew interlinear is similar: And strong men of might naked shall flee in that day, says Yahweh And...
by MrMacSon
Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:11 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The Torah ordained through angels
Replies: 8
Views: 160

Re: The Torah ordained through angels

ἀγγέλων here are lower level messengers or envoys

τὸ σπέρμα ᾧ ἐπήγγελται διαταγεὶς δι’ ἀγγέλων ἐν* χειρὶ μεσίτου
the seed to whom promise has been prescribed through 'angels' by* a mediator's/agent's hand

* or, perhaps, 'during the time of'
by MrMacSon
Sun Mar 17, 2024 2:28 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The Source of Mark's Naked Youth Narrative?
Replies: 16
Views: 271

Re: The Source of Mark's Naked Youth Narrative?

I address this in Deciphering the Gospels . It fits the typical pattern of scenes constructed from scriptural references that talk about God's punishment of the Israelites. Amos 2 : 8 “On garments taken as pledges they stretch out beside every altar 10 “It was I who brought you up from the land of ...
by MrMacSon
Sun Mar 17, 2024 1:58 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The Torah ordained through angels
Replies: 8
Views: 160

Re: The Torah ordained through angels

The verses preceding Gal 3:19 are about a covenant and the seed [offspring] of Abraham (and before that, there was commentary about the Law). v.16 ends, "and to the seed of you who is Christ" - 'Καὶ τῷ σπέρματί σου ὅς ἐστιν Χριστός' v.17 starts, "This I now say [is the] covenant confi...
by MrMacSon
Sun Mar 17, 2024 2:52 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Two Powers in Heaven
Replies: 16
Views: 294

Re: Two Powers in Heaven

Schäfer says "authors who recognize authentic early Judaism in the idea of two Gods side by side" are "represented with particular vigor by Margaret Barker. See especially Margaret Barker, The Great Angel: A Study of Israel’s Second God (London: SPCK, 1992); eadem, The Great High Prie...
by MrMacSon
Sun Mar 17, 2024 2:27 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Two Powers in Heaven
Replies: 16
Views: 294

Re: Two Powers in Heaven

2. Two Gods in Heaven : Jewish Concepts of God in Antiquity by Peter Schäfer (translated by Allison Brown) "Two Gods in Heaven reveals the long and little-known history of a second, junior god in Judaism, showing how this idea was embraced by rabbis and Jewish mystics in the early centuries of...
by MrMacSon
Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:02 pm
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Two Powers in Heaven
Replies: 16
Views: 294

Re: Two Powers in Heaven

Hello! Melchizedek represents the pastoral archetype who has "the law written on his heart" e.g. he is priest (wisdom) AND king (courage). He is an interpolation in Genesis necessary to complete the structure and theology of the Pentateuch whose template consists of lines 6-12 of the Vedi...