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The narrative is set in the Decapolis a Hellenistic enclave in the region of Palestine. Andrew Criddle The narrative is set by the Sea. That's a key point in the story (which may have been moved anywhere, if the Decapolis is admissible.) * Ev 8:26-39 26 Then they arrived at the region of the Gerase...

There aren't enough Food Threads, here.

Lately, I've become somewhat fascinated by this ancient condiment, fermented fish oil. Liquamen, aka Garum.

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Is anyone else following the Daybell Murder Trial? Wow.

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This place doesn't have enough Zombie threads. News! A “zombie grave” was recently found in Oppin, Germany, according to a Facebook post from the State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology of Saxony-Anhalt. Gotcha, Popular Mechanics : https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a6...

News to me. And never discussed here, before? This is quite a First:

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In * Ev 8:31 They begged him not to order them to go back into the abyss. ... 33 Then the demons came out of the man and entered the swine, and the herd stampeded down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned. Why were the demons afraid to go back to the abyss? Didn't they return to the abyss, ...

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Correction, then. Yes, here. David K. Naugle, Worldview: The History of a Concept [2002], p.198, note 24 Kuhn acknowledges his debt to {Michael} Polanyi in Structure , p.44 n.1. For a helpful discussion connecting Polanyi's personal and tacit knowledge with Weltanschauung and the scientific enterpri...

Polanyi's Tacit Knowledge? I don't know enough about Polanyi to say with any authority, but at least one scholar notes that Polanyi's theory neglects Weltanschauung . Adam Holzman, “Karl Polanyi and the Rise of Modernity: A Critique,” intersections 12, no. 1 (2012): 91-112; see p.108 : The answer l...

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 ...