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It pongs a bit to me. Honestly, to me it seems that the extreme negative reaction to this fragment is nothing more than knee jerk reactions from the crowd who are aghast that anyone could so much as suggest that the divine aspect of the Son of God could have stooped to union with a <shudder> human ...

Peter Kirby wrote:I tend to think it's a fake, myself. The modern kind.

It pongs a bit to me.

While I was reading some of Severus Sebokht's works on astronomy, a footnote pointed out that the arrival of Christianity made a considerable difference to star-gazing. Because the Christians rejected the idea that the planets *were* the gods, or in some sense allied with them, they demythologised t...

I understand entirely.

I don't think there's much doubt about that.

I've just discovered that she has blocked me from following her on twitter. Which is, of course, certainly her right.

Usually they are deposited somewhere. Nock's papers will be extant.

I wondered where this ended up. It just vanished, to my eyes. Only found it today.

I thought for a moment there might be an interesting idea there. But no. It's just the same saying whatever is convenient.

This post explains apparent mentions of knowledge of the slow movement of the North Celestial Pole in the Apocalypse, the Revelation According to Saint John. ... Over centuries ancient star gazers would readily have measured the shift of the pole across the clock line of these stars. Perhaps so: bu...