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Whatever the answer to that question, is it plausible that a visiting Semitic group in a short time absorbed many Greek texts and somehow in a sub rosa manner parallelized such into a (putatively) uniquely misleading artificial behaviourist pseudo-national text, one that never before existed? Oh my...

That's not how I operate. So I take it you don't have evidence of this bullying that you accuse me of. If you want to insult me, so be it. It shows you don't have a real argument. That's how I look it at. In this case, you insulted or insinuated that Andrew wasn't showing sufficient deference to De...

Secret Alias wrote: ↑Thu Mar 23, 2023 2:43 pm

Your constant attacks on me I consider to be nothing less than harassment and attempts to bully me.

A case can be made that you bully and intimidate others at the forum.

Then lodge a complaint to Peter -- with the evidence.

Neil has this annoying habit (which is a carry over from his radical Christian background) of taking offense that when people here stupid sounding arguments from questionable scholars (Detering was a fucking nut, I know I dealt with him for years) that this "disrespects" the scholar where...

When I was at Brandeis U. circa 1970 I took a course on Autobiography. We read lots of them. My paper compared and contrasted Augustine, Confessions and Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections. I think Augustine wrote his, and I don't know any reason to think such is seriously debatable. Others may. Yo...

Does Detering discuss the use of the confessions by e.g. Eugippius and/or the discussion in the Retractions (See for example Augustine reflects on the Confessions ) ? Andrew Criddle Of course. Detering was not a fool. Instead of assuming he must not have mentioned X or Y a more likely set of questi...

ABuddhist and others seriously interested in the evidence (that is, I am not addressing SA here, nor SG, who are too smart to know all the answers without having to read any of the published evidence and argument) I earlier left a quote from Russell Gmirkin's discussion of the relationship between t...

Why would the Hebrew have Yahweh and Gods and the Greek Lord and God? From what I understand, the reference to YHWH in the Hebrew was converted to Lord in Greek because of a naming taboo surrounding the name YHWH. But such questions are about why the Greek and Hebrew Texts differ rather than when e...

Gmirkin and his scholarly peers who are specialists in Hebrew and Septuagint texts are actually a lot smarter and more informed than the derailers of this thread seem to think. A bunch of "whatabout" questions from proudly self-professed anti-intellectuals who wilfully refuse to read the a...

In all honesty, I am not familiar enough with Gmirkin's claims to know whether he claims that the Pentateuch was written originally in Greek. Gmirkin concurs with the long-established evidence that the Pentateuch was originally written in Hebrew and then translated into Greek. (There are usually cl...