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I don't see any evidence for this same explicit attribution in the Christian cult until the cult was co-opted by Big Brother. As I said I am open to evidence for and against. LC I would imagine the implementation of unrelated pagan belifs created some noise. Are there any texts or comments about ob...

As to whether it broke their hearts, that would very much depend upon the particular culture and what was considered socially acceptable. In many of these primitive cultures having your child selected for sacrifice to the god(s) was regarded as being the highest honor society could bestow. Many of ...

To bring it back to Judaism, there is one interesting question I often revert to. How many different stories am I actually reading? Or to be a bit more specific. Am I actually reading many different stories at all? Several. The problem is that each succeeding version of society has re-interpreted t...

I understand the KJV arguably created English based protestant christianities, so that there have been later very significant changes in the stories. Changes in the stories will always occur as ongoing process. When words and concepts migrate from one culture to another, or one language to the othe...

Great I am glad that I did at least one good deed here at the board. Well... I am here to pick up what I can. Moses and "God in cloud" upon mount Sinai made sense in so many ways when I examined the concept Shekinah. With a broader understanding of the concept, the Lugalbanda stories sudd...

I noticed you said something between your flow of posts in the thread about laziness being reason for not seeing Judaism as origin for Christianity. Which seemed like the ordinary raging rant, until I found this beautiful little gem you had put in there somewhere. You mentioned the necessity of unde...

So, this use of a Rank-Raglan hero class in arguing against a historical Jesus has bothered me for a while, but until now I haven't been able to give a good explanation as to just what's wrong. Well, maybe I still don't have a good explanation, but at least I have an explanation that follows below....

Amen sister, Where does one find these harlot's? Well certainly not in Canada any more. The government just tabled a new anti-prostitution law just in time for my trip to my home and native land this year for Xmas. In the old days I had to wine and dine strippers at the Brass Rail and other places ...

Lots of ancient texts that don't stir interest still help give history. The Jewish banking family, the Murashu family left several hundred tablets in the Babylonian city of Nippur that provide evidence for Jews living in Mesopotamia, choosing not to return to where they came from. Certainly. I only...

I knew this sounded familiar, so I searched my library. ( Vast chaotic mess of stored data to be honest ). Found this piece published by professor Kathleen Abraham from 2011. The Reconstruction of Jewish Communities in the Persian Empire: The Āl-Yahūdu Clay Tablets https://www.academia.edu/1383485/T...