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Has anyone noticed that the likely sacred scripture alluded to refers to people destined to preach tomgentiles. Of course, Paul feels that someone like him is being referred to. Paul was hand picked by the Judean God to expand the ranks of those devoted to the Judean God to include gentiles. Since I...

A while back I (well, a kind of alter ego I was playing with in 2014) kind of reviewed David Laird Dungan's work on the synoptic problem, noting that he makes a serious study of the issues at play, one of which was the influence of Baruch Spinoza. https://earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=5093...

I looked into p. Oxy 405 back in 2018, and concluded that it was indeed from Irenaeus based on subject and order of statements: https://earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=89870#p89870 "Looking into this (see OP - and it took a good bit of effort to dig up the audit trail documenting Robins...

Pogotrucci, You're not going to get a straight answer from SA. Not because he is trying to be evasive, I don't think, but because he has sooo many ideas (a few with merit) about Marcion and his beliefs, and cannot seem to tie them together well. At the moment (and this has been developing for severa...

Danila Oder, author of the book, The Two Gospels of Mark: Performance and Text died last month. She wrote her own obituary, available here: https://www.clarityfunerals.com/obituaries/danila-oder/18/ In that book, Danila proposed that Mark wrote a performed play starring the Jesus figure for his Jud...

OK, I see what was going on. In the Wiki page bld89 gave above, I clicked on the link for Travis McHenrey; https://www.occult.live/index.php/Travis_McHenry In the list of this individual's published works, I see one called Angel Tarot (deck) and poof, there it was. The Angels of the Kabbala series o...

Some of these Spirit Beings are new to me! (This image looks like it was made in the 1960s or 1970s; no source info, sorry.) From this blog post : "What Do Biblically Accurate Angels Look Like?" https://bestdailyprayer.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/biblically-accurate-angels.webp If the ...

[ALEXANDER POLYHISTOR] 26 'Artapanus says, in his book Concerning the Jews, that This sounds like a Source critic's dream: Within these many stories, we can detect *some* resemblance to stories in the Judean holy book Exodus, but if you have read Machiavelli's two works, most of the stories follow ...

The image that the phrase "throwing down" meaning "formed" may have come from Plato, or Socrates and his Pythagorean buddies. Forgive me for not looking up the references, but IIRC Plato spoke of the action of the Craftsman (he actually uses 2-3 different terms in different works...

o.k., you have the right to that opinion. Back on topic: I see that Iamblichus claims Porphyry read Hermetic books: what evidence is there of that? (Not Iamblichus' Responses.) Again, Iamblichus would insist there is a Porphyry dialogue w/ against Hermeticism, but I'm not seeing it. Much of what An...