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- Tue Nov 18, 2014 5:33 pm
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Mosaics Discovered in Turkey
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7255
Re: Mosaics Discovered in Turkey
Thanks for sharing. Such beauty is to be admired by all faiths. I hate to think what ISIS would do to the mosaics if they captured the area. JT Put it on a grand 5 year display tour in 10 countries, charging $20 a head to see it, until pieces of tile fall out and mysteriously disappear and the thin...
- Tue Nov 18, 2014 1:00 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Sinaiticus - Hermas, Barnabas linguistic, history anomalies
- Replies: 35
- Views: 43907
Re: Sinaiticus - Hermas, Barnabas linguistic, history anomal
Hi Steven Just to clarify. Am I right that we have no evidence that a journal called the Star of the East was in publication in 1843 other than the material presented by Simonides ? Andrew Criddle Andrew, I have already posted a link to one publication that antedated 1843 and another shortly after ...
- Tue Nov 18, 2014 6:06 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Researching a historical novel based on the Pantera legend
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10076
Re: Researching a historical novel based on the Pantera lege
@DCH: Thanks. By "are more likely to have been stationed there in that period than the unit suggested by Diessman's anonymous friend" do you mean in Galilee/Judaea in that period? Actually, I meant stationed in the Rhine, where Abdes was when he died. Look up "First Cohort of Archers...
- Tue Nov 18, 2014 5:41 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Archaeological Evidence of pre-Constantinian Christianity
- Replies: 137
- Views: 124587
Re: Archaeological Evidence of pre-Constantinian Christianit
ficino, I don't know just how "clear" these references are. After all, we "know" that Islamists all marry children and want to establish a worldwide caliphate, outlaw Christianity and kill your mother. These things are bull, of course, but one might deduce these "facts"...
- Tue Nov 18, 2014 5:22 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Parallels Between Jesus and the Egyptian God, "Shu"
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10742
Re: Parallels Between Jesus and the Egyptian God, "Shu"
The true Shu:
- Mon Nov 17, 2014 7:23 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Researching a historical novel based on the Pantera legend
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10076
Re: Researching a historical novel based on the Pantera lege
That makes me think. I'm probably not being clear, sorry about that if I am, but I think that Abdes is a male Phoenician name that means "servant of Isis" and/or "scourge" and that if he was a temple slave the name isn't because he was a temple slave but simply his name. http://...
- Mon Nov 17, 2014 5:17 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Researching a historical novel based on the Pantera legend
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10076
Re: Researching a historical novel based on the Pantera lege
I've already found some resources on the legend including the book by Deissman and this: https://archive.org/details/lifeofjesuscriti01stra as well as http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/Notes_and_Queries_v8_1000548237/113 and a number of others (again suggested by lurking). I think I've go...
- Sun Nov 16, 2014 7:51 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Gospels as "euhemerized" stories about Jesus?
- Replies: 175
- Views: 142636
Re: Gospels as "euhemerized" stories about Jesus?
Perhaps we should distinguish the difference between "Myth" (stories created to explain commonplaces such as the cycle of birth & death, the changing of the seasons, or the existence of evil, involving supernatural beings in the explanatory process) and "Legend" (stories of e...
- Sun Nov 16, 2014 8:31 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Archaeological Evidence of pre-Constantinian Christianity
- Replies: 137
- Views: 124587
Re: Archaeological Evidence of pre-Constantinian Christianit
Gnostics were said to have a special fondness for "wedding night" imagery in which the woman, and most likely a man, washes up and is anointed before "doing the deed" to consummate the marriage. They saw these as analogues to initiations required to allow the mystic to achieve &q...
- Sat Nov 15, 2014 10:08 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Sinaiticus - Hermas, Barnabas linguistic, history anomalies
- Replies: 35
- Views: 43907
Re: Sinaiticus - Hermas, Barnabas linguistic, history anomal
Here is the take of a contemporary on the newspapers existing in Smyrna: Report on Smyrna by George Rolleston (G.E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode, 1856 - İzmir (Turkey) - 123 pages) Of the educational development of the middle class of any population, the character of their favourite journals may be take...