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Funny you mention Simon bar Giora; I was taking another look at the Gabriel's Revelation tablet today. The finding has caused controversy among scholars. Israel Knohl, an expert in Talmudic and biblical language at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, read in line 80 of the inscription a command from the ...

And this article by Angel (curious name) looks interesting: "The Liturgical-Eschatological Priest of the Self-Glorification Hymn": ...it will argue that the speaker is to be understood as a present member of the community who, by means of liturgical experience, has undergone an extraordina...

DC, Here's another one for you: "Serenity now!" (It's busy at work tonight.) On another note, regarding the son of man = Michael idea, I was reading Schafer's review of Boyarin's The Jewish Gospels and noticed this statement: Boyarin dismisses the possibility that the Son of Man is a colle...

Thanks DC, It's mostly at work though, since the library only gives me two hours a day to use their computers (I talked to them about changing that policy and they are thinking about it; it's the only library I've ever used that has this policy) and I don't go to the library every day. Using my work...

Maybe it was easy for me to deal with the food laws because I'm a vegetarian and don't appreciate how "burdensome" they are for people who eat meat. Look how much the issue of eating meat sacrificed to idols concerned early Christians, for example, yet it doesn't really pertain to me (thou...

When I went to a Torah study for the first time I had wondered (and asked) why we were reading a passage from Leviticus about the Tabernacle instead of something that was more relevant and applicable to our lives today. (I was in my twenties.) Over time though, I began to see that everything in the ...

Thanks, Ben. That's something to chew on, as usual.

I don't understand the appeal of the God of Israel without (or with only parts of) the Torah. To me it would be like thinking Hammurabi was the greatest king in the world but that his laws are burdensome or unnecessary. Maybe this isn't the right king for you then, is all I can think. http://avalon....

Dan. 12:8-9 says that the book of Daniel was "rolled up and sealed until the time of the end": I heard, but I did not understand. So I asked, “My lord, what will the outcome of all this be?” He replied, “Go your way, Daniel, because the words are rolled up and sealed until the time of the ...

I lost everything I wrote during my limited time at the library today. Don't you hate when that happens? But it's not the end of the world, of course (even if that is the subject of this thread). But anyway, I see that Daniel's prayer in ch. 9 (right before his vision of the cut off messiah) emphasi...