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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d0686e6b8f5b98e0543620/15d19464-c02f-481d-ae49-32b951f9fe1e/anatoly-fomenko.jpg?format=750w "Anatoly Fomenko, mathematician and ethnonationalist propagandist masquerading as a legitimate historian." The connection to Qanon, "encouraged ...

ἐγκράτεια γάρ ἐστιν σώματος ἄρνησις καὶ ὁμολογία πρὸς Θεόν. ἐγκράτεια = Given Mastery i.e. Remaining Sober (Temperance). Regarding requirements of Dr. Bob's sobriety, we read the Edelsteins' suggested four-fold solution (evocative again of colleague Dr. John Rathbone Oliver's 1929 autobiography Fou...

I'm happy to stick with the consensus dates: Paul writing around 50 to 60 CE, Shepherd of Hermas written around 150 CE. Right, though if SoH is folkloric Xian and of the Chrestiani apocalyptic tradition, Roman provenance does not exclude Egyptian origins for source-material or the tradition/genre. ...

Then Poimandres (Egyptian: Soverignty of Mind), often translated as 'Man-Shepherd' : a competing cult's text of the same period? An older text? Permit me to pare down the key bits, here: I have my own theory of Christian origins, which I call my 'magical' historical Jesus theory. ... Paul, as an ind...

Is it too early to dispense with the forum now? I'm glad someone else is at attention on the AI front. "Syria" as the (Egyptian) Siriad of the Canaanite Phoenicians would not necessarily be in the Syria we first think of. Josephus references that "other Syria" also. Where was Ba...

Archaeologists find ancient Roman engraved gems in ancient Roman Briddish bathhouse drain

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-730516

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-ai-texts-thousands-years-readable.html The Babylonians wrote in cuneiform characters on clay tablets, which have survived in the form of countless fragments. Over centuries, scholars transferred the characters imprinted on the pieces of clay onto paper. Then they would ...