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The fun is in the extent to which narratives are created and the existing ones bent or even broken, in order to allow for an HJ The question becomes "Why a Historical Jesus (i.e. the existence of the NT) AT ALL"? This Site has been a nice Forum for the discussion of "Crucified Jesus&...

The fun is in the extent to which narratives are created and the existing ones bent or even broken, in order to allow for an HJ mlinssen -- I appreciate your understanding of the situation, mlinssen! The question becomes "Why a Historical Jesus (i.e. the existence of the NT) AT ALL"? This...

The expression "Son of Father" is equivalent to say that the Son is one and the same with the Father. That is simply not true and we have a NT example to prove it: Josephus, Antiquities... , 18, 2, 4: "About this time died Phraates, king of the Parthians, by the treachery of Phraatac...

Josephus, Antiquities... , 13, 16, 2 - 3, in part: "However, the queen also took care of the affairs of the kingdom, and got together a great body of mercenary soldiers, and increased her own army to such a degree, that she became terrible to the neighboring tyrants, and took hostages of them: ...

Thank you for this, gryan.

This echoes Queen Salome, who gave the fortresses to the Loyalists of Jannaeus.
A new Data Mine to look at!

THNX!

CW

FWIW kurios (Lord) as a title of respect is well known in koine Greek (the Greek of the papyri) Andrew Criddle Strong's H563 ("lamb") and H564 ("Sixteenth Mishmarot Group"): " אִמַּר " The Word Play is completely lost in the Greek, as you would expect if the Greek was ...

dm -- Go for it. Luke has (at least) 2 good leads: Luke 2: 36 - 38 (RSV): [36] And there was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phan'u-el, of the tribe of Asher; she was of a great age, having lived with her husband seven years from her virginity, [37] and as a widow till she was eighty-four. She d...

This is an extremely important section. I won't examine the entire section but there are some points that follow The Pattern: There are words that are "Odd and Unusual" that point to the Original Story. Mark 5: Various (RSV): [9] And Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He repli...

CW, i'm sure all can agree, it gets complicated fast! Very, very fast! For John it's very different Jesus himself gives the nod that he is Lord “You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so, for that is what I am. Which is why John has the "oddest" use of "Lord" - "mary...

https://www.thearamaicscriptures.com/maryayhwh.html https://everlastinggoodnewsofyahweh.info/MarYah.html Scholarly value here is up to you but I still see this as a Word Play on "Immar-Yah", "Lamb of Yah" going back to Sumer. "immar-Yah" becomes "Immer-Yah". C...