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by billd89
Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:08 pm
Forum: Classical Texts and History
Topic: Spackling over the Crumbly Bits
Replies: 6
Views: 800

What will AI learn from Glirastes' Sonnet?

It really speaks to modern man's need to control that the past is not allowed to pass away peacefully and with dignity. ... Is it a moral question to allow historical monuments, artifacts, etc from antiquity to fall and become as the sand of time? Ozymandias (BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY) I met a travel...
by billd89
Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:39 pm
Forum: Other Texts and History
Topic: Microplastics contaminate Archaeological Samples
Replies: 1
Views: 53

Microplastics contaminate Archaeological Samples

Not surprising, but perhaps problematic for the field. https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/25/uk/microplastics-archeological-remains-study-scli-intl-scn-gbr/index.html (If this reads 'Off-Topic' here, please feel free to move wherever. I think archaeological matters are related, but obviously 'non-textual' ...
by billd89
Fri Mar 22, 2024 7:18 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: On the "Bad Character" Argument
Replies: 1
Views: 179

Re: On the "Bad Character" Lineage

What you need to convict someone is (1) evidence of a crime, (2) an "enraged" jury and then (3) demonstrations of the "bad character" of the accused. You don't know what you're talking about, again. I sat on a murder trial as a juror; I took an active role in the discussions of ...
by billd89
Thu Mar 21, 2024 3:28 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: in defence of astrotheology
Replies: 432
Views: 350464

Details, details: That Odd Ark Theory

Here's a "Story Conference Transcript" supposedly dated to 1978 : Philip Kaufman — "... kind of a Middle Eastern adventure based around a similar idea to something like that book "The Spear of Destiny" where the Nazis were into mystical cults and so forth, and they were loo...
by billd89
Wed Mar 20, 2024 2:26 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Agamemnon Tselikas’ Handwriting Analysis Report Did Morton Smith Forge "Secret Mark"?
Replies: 99
Views: 1642

Re: The Ploy

Agamemnon Tselikas’ Handwriting Analysis Report Did Morton Smith Forge "Secret Mark"? https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/bible-interpretation/agamemnon-tselikas-handwriting-analysis-report/ In his extensive multi-part report, T selikas explains that the handwriting ...
by billd89
Mon Mar 18, 2024 2:41 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Having It Both Ways With Secret Mark
Replies: 95
Views: 23759

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: 758

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: 1944

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: 1944

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) ...