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Please note the H-u-r-r-i-a-n connection there. (b) The number 318 is the number of taxpaying citizens in Jerusalem (“porters”) referenced at Amarna Letter EA 287: 53-59 by Abdi-Heba, per the original reading of Knudtzon referenced in footnote 18 at p. 330 of William L.Moran, “The Amarna Letters”, ...

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I stand corrected.

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Labels are a powerful concept. Create a label, and this concept is suddenly a "thing" and gets a life of its own, even if it didn't have one before. This causes lots of unnecessary friction. ... Obviously, the term "Gnosticism" has similar problems. Use the label, and it starts ...

I only know the very basics of the varying JEDP/Pentateuch redaction theories, but I'm keen to explore them a little further. Anyone know a good book? I'm thinking something like Mark Goodacre's "The Synoptic Problem" - i.e. something that's up-to-date with modern scholarship, shortish (~...

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...

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 ...

@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...

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"...

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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://...