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- Sat Apr 27, 2024 5:25 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Two and a half theories on "Theodore" handwriting
- Replies: 2
- Views: 62
(Related) Forgery Website
Ken mentioned site this three years ago: http://www.forgingantiquity.com/forgeries I think Choat's "Forging antiquities: the case of papyrus fakes" is known here, although it has not been mentioned before? https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Forging-Antiquities%3A-The-Case-of-Papyrus-Fak...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 4:35 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Two and a half theories on "Theodore" handwriting
- Replies: 2
- Views: 62
Re: Occam's Razor
Half-wise, MS could have asked Greek scholars (in addition to paleographic publications) to teach him about the then ductus practice and ligatures, so he could better read, and transcribe, and translate texts, without making then actual accomplices. All-wise, otherwise, MS could have handed a prepa...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 11:25 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Rory Boid's Comments to Russell Gmirkin on Academia.edu which Reference his Work at this Forum
- Replies: 2
- Views: 135
Re: Samaritan Joshua
So far I haven't looked at this website, but now I will have to get access to it and publicise what is false and what is true. Ruairidh Bóid Dear God. Threats , while wringing his hands lol Umbrage or Outrage? I cannot tell which. https://149674310.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/chu...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 10:51 am
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: The Catamites of Tiberius?
- Replies: 13
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Ousia: a few examples in Philo Judaeus
I will say that I do not buy into the mystical beliefs projected by romantic moderns, scholars or not, into Philo's work. If you insist on remaining blind, how can I make you see? (The eternal 'Lost Cause.') I am not talking about random use of words such as ousian and the terms for wealth, etc., a...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 8:08 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Revisiting Philo's Therapeutae and their Context/Timeline
- Replies: 75
- Views: 177240
Re: Hermetic Influence on Philo
I found your 2021 post describing your beliefs about Philo, and the influence of Hermetic literature on him: ... No, that post really doesn't describe my (adopted) thesis that the Hermetica /Hermetic sub-culture influenced Philo; others do. For examples: this , this , this , this , this , especiall...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 6:23 am
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Critical Study on Chronology of the Ancient World
- Replies: 44
- Views: 64046
"Sovietization of History" in 2024
Soviet Lies are baaaaaaack ... the Neo-Soviets are book-burning the history they would erase completely. And looting everything else. https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/23/russia-ukraine-cultural-genocide-looting-indoctrination-deporatation/ Russian academics have created an Orwellian 98-page glossar...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:28 pm
- Forum: General Religious Discussion
- Topic: The Ghost in the Machine is heeeeeeerre ....
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9106
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 12:40 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Revisiting Philo's Therapeutae and their Context/Timeline
- Replies: 75
- Views: 177240
In DVC, The Passion of Craving = Epithumia
'Craving/Desire' is unspecified by character, in the List of Maladies that the Therapeutae can cure. 2. ἡ δὲ προαίρεσις τῶν φιλοσόφων εὐθὺς ἐμφαίνεται διὰ τῆς προσρήσεως· θεραπευταὶ γὰρ καὶ θεραπευτρίδες ἐτύμως καλοῦνται, ἤτοι παρόσον ἰατρικὴν ἐπαγγέλλονται κρείσσονα τῆς κατὰ πόλεις — ἡ μὲν γὰρ σώμα...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 9:41 am
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: The Catamites of Tiberius?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 641
Re: Perspective
Don't open your veins, and spare the hemlock. We live now. The document that survived was surely 'corrupted' in little ways by other hands. I believe that possibility is obvious for everything that came down as canon literature. That doesn't make it False to my mind, however. I remember all the talk...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 5:28 am
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: Timo S. Paananen's Dissertation on "Admissible Concealed Indicators"
- Replies: 2
- Views: 99
Re: Timo S. Paananen's Dissertation
What ever happened to his co-author, here?