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- Sun May 05, 2024 6:00 pm
- Forum: Other Texts and History
- Topic: ??! The Book of God: the Apocalypse of Adam-Oannes
- Replies: 0
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??! The Book of God: the Apocalypse of Adam-Oannes
What is this, High Strangeness? https://archive.org/details/bookofgodapocaly00kenerich/page/500/mode/2up Mercifully, Wiki tells me "In 1866, Kenealy wrote The Book of God: the Apocalypse of Adam-Oannes , an unorthodox theological work in which he claimed that he was the "twelfth messenger ...
- Sat May 04, 2024 6:04 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Niels Lemche, "272 BCE – A Terminus a Quo"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 268
Re: Link
Sebald Beham [1545], Hercules Carrying the Columns of Gaza : https://1.api.artsmia.org/800/124314.jpg The destruction of the Temple of Dagan at Gaza I accept as a folkloric fact; the site has not been discovered. According to Prof. Stephanie Mulder @ UT Austin, the Omari Mosque supposedly stood on ...
- Sat May 04, 2024 11:02 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: How old is the oldest Dead Sea Scroll and how do we know?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 22971
Re: M. Langlois, The Outlier?
2019 paper: I conclude that this manuscript was probably copied around the second half of the third century BCE. Cross dates it “to the mid-third century CBE”,7 which is possible, but I would not go much earlier. One scholar's opinion is worth hearing out, but this sounds like very thin, speculativ...
- Sat May 04, 2024 7:28 am
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: "paradigms"
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3362
Re: "paradigms" & Heidegger
Of course, Martin Heidegger is arguably the most important philosopher of the 20th C. Right or wrong, appealing or not, his paradigm on Being is monumental. Where does that come from? David Farrell Krell, Intimations of Mortality: Time, Truth, and Finitude in Heidegger's Thinking of Being [1986], p....
- Sat May 04, 2024 4:57 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Revisiting Philo's Therapeutae and their Context/Timeline
- Replies: 76
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What did a Therapeutide look like?
A Therapeut female divine, from a wealthy Alexandrian Jewish family (as Philo leads us to believe, DVC ): what would she look like? Oz interpretation: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-03/grafton-head-reconstruction-stuff-the-british-stole/103790776 https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/a66b...
- Sat May 04, 2024 3:18 am
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Sargon Hypothesis
- Replies: 0
- Views: 53
Sargon Hypothesis
This scientist's theory sounds clever! https://phys.org/news/2024-05-assyriologist-archaeological-mystery-bc.html Dr. Martin Worthington of Trinity's School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies has proposed a new solution ... He argues the Assyrian words for the five symbols (lion, eagle, ...
- Fri May 03, 2024 5:47 pm
- Forum: Other Texts and History
- Topic: Can we have an AI Translator Thread?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2913
Fascinating article on Claude 3: Hints of Setience?
https://www.consortiuminfo.org/artificial-intelligence/are-ais-self-aware-conversations-with-claude-3/ Conversing with Claude can seem entirely human, with Claude passing the Turing test on steroids. But the AI’s existence is very different from our own, making it challenging to understand what Clau...
- Fri May 03, 2024 10:11 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Secret Mark and Marcion via Chry
- Replies: 3
- Views: 141
Re: Dates
John 13:3 does NOT say Jesus 'took the form of a servant', CORRECT. That's Philippians 2:7. John 13:4: ἐγείρεται ἐκ τοῦ δείπνου καὶ τίθησιν τὰ ἱμάτια καὶ λαβὼν λέντιον διέζωσεν ἑαυτόν· λέντιον = Linen, apron. John 13:5: Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to w...
- Fri May 03, 2024 8:57 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Niels Lemche, "272 BCE – A Terminus a Quo"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 268
Re: Link
Sebald Beham [1545], Hercules Carrying the Columns of Gaza : https://1.api.artsmia.org/800/124314.jpg However, if readers are still not satisfied then we move on to the next section of the Book of Judges: The stories about the superhero Samson. Again, we are dealing with a mythological figure and do...
- Thu May 02, 2024 10:13 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Primal Evil (ἀρχή κακῶν), Inequality (ἀνισότης)?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 105
Primal Evil (ἀρχή κακῶν), Inequality (ἀνισότης)?
From Philo's DVC , 70. διακονοῦνται δὲ οὐχ ὑπ’ ἀνδραπόδων, ἡγούμενοι συνόλως τὴν θεραπόντων κτῆσιν εἶναι παρὰ φύσιν· ἡ μὲν γὰρ ἐλευθέρους ἅπαντας γεγέννηκεν, αἱ δέ τινων ἀδικίαι καὶ πλεονεξίαι ζηλωσάντων τὴν ἀρχέκακον ἀνισότητα καταζεύξασαι τὸ ἐπὶ τοῖς ἀσθενεστέροις κράτος τοῖς δυνατωτέροις ἀνῆψαν. ...