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From the Moshe Idel article mentioned above. Much of the notes below are paraphrases of Dr. Idel's words from the article. There is no important messianic element in Jewish mysticism. In the first phase in the development of Kabbalah (from 1180 to 1492), Kabbalah is assumed to be indifferent towards...

1. It would be interesting to know how the concept of 'growth of Gnostic tendencies within Judaism' has been perceived or advanced in the thirty+ years since Scholem wrote Kabbalah ; as well a perceptions about their different development before and during early Christianity. Gershom Scholem's book...

Genetic_studies_on_Jews Turns out Autosomal DNA is the latest thing, and the wiki has a discussion of Dr. Elhaik's work. A 2016 study by Elhaik et al. in the Oxford University Press published journal Genome Biology and Evolution found that the DNA of Ashkenazi Jews originated in northeastern Turkey...

Ashkenazi_Jews These studies revealed that Ashkenazi Jews originate from an ancient (2000 BCE – 700 BCE) population of the Middle East who had spread to Europe.[131] Ashkenazic Jews display the homogeneity of a genetic bottleneck, meaning they descend from a larger population whose numbers were gre...

I'm simply not competent to judge the scientific claims.That said, I'd be very curious to see a review of ... No Evidence from Genome-wide Data of a Khazar Origin fo the Ashkenazi Jews This is probably an exercise of blind people describing an elephant but - Sequencing an Ashkenazi reference panel ...

Probably a simple link to Dr. Elhaik's article would have been more effective than the lengthy quote. Have to admit the subject matter is quite obscure. It seems to me that this provides important backing for Shlomo Sand's theory of a Khazar origin of Ashkenazi Jews. The Invention of the Jewish Peop...

ה מסות ה גדלת τοὺς πειρασμοὺς τοὺς μεγάλους Can anyone explain the double articles present in both Greek and Hebrew? Regarding Hebrew, I think the trick is to learn the language, but maybe this will help. - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%94%D6%BE Your verse the great trials which thine eyes saw...

Thanks for that comment on AB Ulan. If I was the architect of the Shroud, my first impulse would be to use real blood. Of course, that decision could be superseded by technical/design considerations. I mixed up Victor and Nancy Tryon in a previous post, when I said "Vicky is a piece of work&quo...

Apparently, John says there was no time to wash the body before Shabbat. That seems dubious to me but the creator of the Shroud had to work with the material he had. Haven't actually looked at the state of things with the Shroud for many years. I had been under the impression that the blood tests we...

The blood test history is very interesting. There was a forensic test done by an Italian cop who thought it was type AB which was confirmed by similar tests on the shmata of Oviedo Sudarium_of_Oviedo . Forensic anthropologists later refuted this, although one might think that the AB claim would rais...