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by billd89
Mon Mar 18, 2024 2:41 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Having It Both Ways With Secret Mark
Replies: 94
Views: 23500

Re: Having It Both Ways With Secret Mark

Switcheroo?

His game is far, far, far 'Too Complicated' (read snark, there) for me to follow.
by billd89
Wed Mar 13, 2024 4:38 pm
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: eConference: The Market for Biblical Antiquities" 1852-2022
Replies: 2
Views: 740

Re: eConference: The Market for Biblical Antiquities" 1852-2022

Indeed. Forgers were certainly active in Palestine in the early- mid-20th C.; the scope of their trade is not generally known to lay-people, but it was extensive for the niche market.

Here's a 1984 article on mid-20th C. forgery that's useful background.
by billd89
Wed Mar 13, 2024 4:10 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Sabar's New Morton Smith Article
Replies: 113
Views: 1774

Re: Sabar's New Morton Smith Article

If you say it, it can be discussed, Even in ways that upset you.

Tough luck.
by billd89
Wed Mar 13, 2024 3:58 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Sabar's New Morton Smith Article
Replies: 113
Views: 1774

Re: What You See/What You Don't See

Smith's homosexuality led him to him to misread the letter. This should be taken seriously as a possibility. You assume something innate, here. By analogy: Would you say someone 'being a woman' would lead them to misread something? A 'feminist perspective' might be identified in a female (or male) ...
by billd89
Wed Mar 13, 2024 2:37 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Sabar's New Morton Smith Article
Replies: 113
Views: 1774

Re: Sabar's New Morton Smith Article

Drivel.

I don't fault M.Smith for being a closeted homosexual. I fault M.Smith for being a psychopathic fraud. His belabored, grandiose ploy might yet baffle simple minds, but it doesn't baffle me.
by billd89
Tue Mar 12, 2024 6:06 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Sabar's New Morton Smith Article
Replies: 113
Views: 1774

Re: Sabar's Article is about You?

But this isn't about you, is it? It's about M.Smith quite deliberately queering Jesus. And Why: 'I Lie Because I Can.' Sure: maybe an historical Jesus lived AND he was oriented towards same-sex relationships. Who knows! But if --IF-- Smith CREATED this document/narrative, don't you agree he must hav...
by billd89
Tue Mar 12, 2024 2:29 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Sabar's New Morton Smith Article
Replies: 113
Views: 1774

Freddie Mercury never Came Out as a Gay Man, Either

So everything Secret Alias has written testifying to Morton Smith being a slandered heterosexual is now proven rubbish? Oh dear. Color me surprised. And what a hill to die on ... Whether or not Smith was gay (or bisexual) I do not care; whether a scholar's self-loathing, or a 'hidden self' warped hi...
by billd89
Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:40 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Philo's Fragments
Replies: 3
Views: 828

Re: Philo's Hell

On the Question of Annihilation: Ken M. Penner's "Philo's Eschatology, Personal and Cosmic", p.17 : If punishment is not something Philo expected for the impious after death, what did he expect instead? In the discussion above on the immortality of the soul, the question was raised, what i...
by billd89
Sun Mar 10, 2024 9:06 am
Forum: Classical Texts and History
Topic: Pillars of Hercules
Replies: 19
Views: 1195

Re: Resheph-Seth

It would appear that The "Mighty One with Seven Heads" (Šlyṭ D.šbʿt Rašm) is Leviathan . But also note: here is "Resheph assimilated with Seth as a winged figure spearing Apophis snake, Nineteenth-Twentieth Dynasties {c.1100 BC}, Royal Art and History Museums, Brussels After: Grande,...
by billd89
Sun Mar 10, 2024 3:12 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Canaanite 'Temple of the Rising Sun' Discovered near Jerusalem
Replies: 0
Views: 88

Canaanite 'Temple of the Rising Sun' Discovered near Jerusalem

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2024-03-10/ty-article/archaeologists-discover-canaanite-temple-of-the-rising-sun-in-central-israel/0000018e-26fe-d7d3-abce-66ffa0260000 Inside the halls of the {c.1150 BC} temple the archaeologists found many cultic objects that blended Egyptian and Canaanite cult...