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If Jesus really did say 'I will call you Kepha because you are like a kepha' I think everyone would have been puzzled at his choice of words. I suspect we have the interference that comes from bilingual authors at work here. The original word on the source wax tablet was kipa. Jesus really said he ...

They have no Sprachgefühl. Why don't they look at what Sokoloff's book is called - A dictionary of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic of the Byzantine period. Now why did Jack Kilmon abetted by Jim West hide the full title from me I wonder. They surely would not have anticipated further questions from me, ...

Thanks for the feedbacks. I raised the same question on the biblical-studies group but was given the brush off (by Jack Kilmon) and the shut down (by Jim West) -- I'm evidently not welcome there. But one source did come up, Sokoloff’s Dictionary of Judean Aramaic. Does anyone have easy access to tha...

But if Jason can be the name of a miraculous healer and one who returned from the dead . . . . http://vridar.org/category/book-reviews-notes/moles-jesus-the-healer/ . . . . The name applies to the one who came to represent humanity (as per high priests like one of prophetic symbolism named Joshua), ...

Astral meaning is not the only meaning in the Bible. But cosmology is a big part of the meaningful content in terms of the Biblical vision of objective order. What does this mean? What do you mean by "the meaning of the Bible"? The Bible is a collation of disparate texts from various sour...

To challenge your blank assertion that Adam is not astral, Adam is sometimes interpreted as the avatar of the Age of Taurus, with Abraham/Moses as the avatar of the Age of Aries, Jesus Christ as avatar of the Age of Pisces, and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ as avatar of the Age of Aquarius. Can...

Who was Paul's original audience? How many people -- and which people -- had the ability to comprehend or inclination to even try to comprehend mystical teachings of salvation and allegories etc? Would not an audience for his sorts of teachings be from among the relatively well-to-do? That is, among...

Yes. Paul and "his competitors" and "coworkers" did not need a "story". Only a faith system and sets of wisdom and hopes to propagate the faith. Or the writer of Hebrews and the author of Revelation could get away with stories of heavenly myths. But it is quite sufficie...

The failure to understand about the loaves. . . . produces hardness of heart, a wilful and cruel reinforcement of ignorant arrogance. Such hardness became the basis of church persecution of Gnostic vision, a syndrome which produced the dominant inverted religious pathologies that have come to see e...

wilfully evil (=) harmless or mild saying This extravagant error is what I mean by saying it is impossible for me to have a sensible conversation with Neil Godfrey. He calls me "wilfully evil" and then asserts that is a "harmless or mild saying". I could point to numerous simila...