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Let me irritate certain members of our Group by asserting what I have I have stated on several occasions: The Abomination of Desolation occurred when Demetrius Eucerus camped at Shechem, near the Temple at Gerizim. Eucerus is at War with Alexander Jannaeus and he defeats Jannaeus. Eucerus commits th...

He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He did not open His mouth; Like a lamb that is led to slaughter, And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers, So He did not open His mouth. Tacitus, Histories , Book 3: "All other nations were equally restless. A sudden outbreak had been excit...

The post deals with the first one, the use of "sea" instead of "lake", but Greek and Roman usage normally used an adjective for the names of bodies of water (mare nostrum, Συριακή θάλασσα), not a noun in the genitive. There are exceptions, of course, but the use of the genitive ...

26. Macarius, Apocriticus III: 22: This man who stood first in the band of the disciples, taught as he had been by God to despise death, but escaping when seized by Herod, became a cause of punishment to those who guarded him. For after he had escaped during the night, when day came there was a sti...

The character "Peter" was a child who saved a Priest in the Temple Slaughter of 4 BCE. He returns 12 years later with the Mishmarot Group "Immer" to finish the job. Peter and his Group are intercepted and (at least) the Priest and others, possibly Peter himself, were crucified. &...

FJV -- Compare with: Mark 8: 22 - 26 (RSV): [22] And they came to Beth-sa'ida. And some people brought to him a blind man, and begged him to touch him. [23] And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the village; and when he had spit on his eyes and laid his hands upon him, he asked h...

• Jesus did curse the fig tree because he was starving during the siege of Jerusalem in 70 CE. • It is quite improbable that the fig tree withered spontaneously. • Jesus tells his followers that, although the prospects are bad, they can defeat the Roman ‘mountain’ if they keep believing in their re...

The word in Aramaic for lord is mry, marya’. Thank you, SA. As I have stated several times, Pettinato, in The Achives of Ebla (ISBN -13: 978-0385131520), looks at several names in the Sumerian and finds words such as " 'nmmr-Ha'ad " ("Panther-of-Ha'ad", from which he concludes t...

It would be the followers of Judas in 6 CE...who would be the freedom fighters. Mark 5: 25 - 26 (RSV): [25] And there was a woman who had had a flow of blood for twelve years, [26] and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew wor...

At the same time also he (Jesus) relieved of doubt those other questions, by making it clear that the name of God, and of supremely good, belongs to one (god) only, and that eternal life and treasure in heaven, and himself besides, pertain to that one, whose commandments, by adding what was lacking...