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by billd89
Tue May 07, 2024 4:59 am
Forum: Other Texts and History
Topic: The Nebra Sky Disk
Replies: 0
Views: 18

The Nebra Sky Disk

News to me. And never discussed here, before? This is quite a First:
Dated by most to the Bronze Age, the Nebra Sky Disc is the oldest-known depiction of the cosmos.

https://news.artnet.com/art-world-archi ... ts-2474678
by billd89
Tue May 07, 2024 4:02 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Why Matthew doubled the Gerasene Demonic (Paul) in *Ev and Mark
Replies: 3
Views: 85

Re: Why Matthew

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, ...
by billd89
Mon May 06, 2024 1:52 pm
Forum: Classical Texts and History
Topic: "paradigms"
Replies: 13
Views: 3492

Re: Two Polyanis

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...
by billd89
Mon May 06, 2024 9:26 am
Forum: Classical Texts and History
Topic: "paradigms"
Replies: 13
Views: 3492

Re: Polanyi? No.

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...
by billd89
Sun May 05, 2024 6:00 pm
Forum: Other Texts and History
Topic: ??! The Book of God: the Apocalypse of Adam-Oannes
Replies: 0
Views: 70

??! 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 ...
by billd89
Sat May 04, 2024 6:04 pm
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Niels Lemche, "272 BCE – A Terminus a Quo"
Replies: 4
Views: 372

Sorting Herakles/Samson and Gaza Pantheon

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 ...
by billd89
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: 23007

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...
by billd89
Sat May 04, 2024 7:28 am
Forum: Classical Texts and History
Topic: "paradigms"
Replies: 13
Views: 3492

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....