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by billd89
Sat Feb 03, 2024 8:55 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: minor spellings aside, any proposed cult of "Jesus the Good" evidence?
Replies: 143
Views: 5239

Re: 'Cult of the Good'

Re: ... ὃ καὶ ἀγαθοῦ κρεῖττόν ... SO there's a 'Cult of the Good' References to ἀγαθοῦ are distinct. (And all of this is far removed from the question posed by the OP.) Absolutely not. ...the question whether there is evidence at all of two separate and uni-directional-sequenced and both "misu...
by billd89
Sat Feb 03, 2024 5:24 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: minor spellings aside, any proposed cult of "Jesus the Good" evidence?
Replies: 143
Views: 5239

Re: 'Cult of the Good' ; Naming Names

Cult of the Good' evidence Well I've wondered about that on other threads; I'm not convinced it's entirely impossible/unrelated, i.e. that there was a Chrestos cult before the (later) Jesus myth, I'm also not jumping to that conclusion. Who or what Deity was 'The Good' (concept) which Philo is taci...
by billd89
Sat Feb 03, 2024 12:29 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The origin of the Jesus' compassion
Replies: 2
Views: 276

Re: Savior of Whores

The Harlot gave herself to everyone, tho.
Chaos was the Rapist, right?
by billd89
Sat Feb 03, 2024 2:40 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: minor spellings aside, any proposed cult of "Jesus the Good" evidence?
Replies: 143
Views: 5239

Re: Any proposed 'Cult of the Good' evidence?

Who or what Deity was 'The Good' (concept) which Philo is tacitly belittling at DVC 2 ? What were Followers of 'The Good' theosophy called, as Jewish heretics, in the First Century Diaspora? By (my reading of) the context of De Vita Contemplativa , they must have been competitors: a rival cult to hi...
by billd89
Fri Feb 02, 2024 5:59 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: minor spellings aside, any proposed cult of "Jesus the Good" evidence?
Replies: 143
Views: 5239

Re: Savior of Lives: Proportion, Lack of Exaggeration, etc.

How many experts in the useless field of Biblical research can claim raising up a savior of lives? Do you ever think about Pantuck? ... Every life that Pantuck saves owes a little bit of that goodness to Morton Smith. You're probably vastly overstating the 'debt' Pantuck's genius & skill owed t...
by billd89
Thu Feb 01, 2024 4:04 pm
Forum: General Religious Discussion
Topic: Effeminate Jesus Angers Conservatives?
Replies: 2
Views: 538

Re: Gay Jesus ?

What do they want? Fabio? 'Merkins? A Muscle-Daddy: Truck-Stop Bathroom Savior! https://troyjonathanritchie.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/muscular-jesus-breaking-cross.jpg Too Real. https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2024/01/501_199263.html And the mandatory Righteous Gemstones vid ... "Wom...
by billd89
Tue Jan 30, 2024 10:56 am
Forum: Other Texts and History
Topic: A Dead Body turns up in Northern Ireland...
Replies: 0
Views: 714

A Dead Body turns up in Northern Ireland...

Bones, skin, fingernails, toenails and possibly a kidney: Older Than Jesus. (Surely, DNA can and will be extracted.) https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-68092307 Radiocarbon dates of 2,000 - 2,500 ya are not so precise, really. "Tollund Man, I." by Seamus Heaney, 1979. Some day I ...
by billd89
Tue Jan 30, 2024 9:36 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Keeping up with the Hyksos
Replies: 2
Views: 511

Resheph, Patron of Shechem?

Primarily, we recognize Resheph by the gazelle-head on his crown. (I very much doubt the interpretation of the gazelle 'noxious, pestilential and harmful' symbol/animal in the passage below, however.) https://isthatinthebible.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/resheph.png?w=172 Fierce! When cornered, the g...
by billd89
Tue Jan 30, 2024 7:42 am
Forum: General Religious Discussion
Topic: Effeminate Jesus Angers Conservatives?
Replies: 2
Views: 538

Well ...

I am old enough to remember when the politically-incorrect terms "Eurofag" and "artfag" would have been casually uttered to disparage this sort of thing. Do we read the model as portrayed here as "effeminate" tho*? a) The Poster. https://www.semana-santa.org/wp-content/...
by billd89
Mon Jan 29, 2024 7:18 pm
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Keeping up with the Hyksos
Replies: 2
Views: 511

Keeping up with the Hyksos

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/first-foreign-takeover-ancient-egypt-was-uprising-not-invasion-180975354/ Beni Hasan Tomb 3 Khnumhotep II (BH3) is notable for the depiction of caravans of Semitic traders ("Procession of the Aamu"). https://arce.org/wp-content/uploads/files-import...