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JW : I've previously indicated that I think "Iscariot" is a deliberate (near) anagram for "Christos". To strengthen the guess: The Name “ Iskarioth” (Iscariot) In some versions of Mark 14:10—the basis of Matt 26:14 and Luke 22:3—there is a definite article , reading ὁ Ἰσκαριώθ (...

JW : Who is condemned GMark GMatthew GLuke GJohn - 3 25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. 26 And if Satan hath rise up against himself, and is divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end. 27 But no one can enter into the house of the strong [man], and spo...

JW : Description GMark GMatthew GLuke GJohn Verse 3 22 And the scribes that came down from Jerusalem said, He hath Beelzebub, and, By the prince of the demons casteth he out the demons. 23 And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan? 24 And if a kingdom...

What I see in these synoptic passages is that the text goes from : "you are the Christ" to "the Christ of God" and to "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God". Mark again seems the most primitive of the three. And Luke seems to lighten Matthew's sentence. imho i...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_RwIt3a8xs JW : I fear that the Thread Sinaiticus authenticity discussion Wed 11/30/2022 - James Snapp Jr. and Steven Avery is misleading to the Skeptical newbie as it focuses on the evidence that Sinaiticus is not ancient rather than the evidence that it is. Hence, ...

JW : GA 90 (f. 227r), as a Latin marginal note next to verse 16:8 informs us that “ Eusebius Pamphile fixed this as the end of the Gospel . GA 90 = 16th century. GA 90 is always shown as evidence for LE and never shown as evidence against. The marginal note though asserts that Eusebius concluded th...

JW : Let's look at the setting of the Lançados : The Atlantic slave trade was dominated by Portugal at the start with significant numbers starting in the 16th century. "The Jews" were expelled from Portugal around 1500. Books and articles generally state that the Lancados were relatively ...

JW : Lançados The number of lançados grew quickly during the first half of the 16th century in response to the persecution of Jews by Portuguese kings Manuel I and João III. The lançados supported and acted as intermediaries for increasing French, English, and Dutch trading along the West African c...

JW : Lançados The lançados (literally, the thrown out ones[1] or the cast out ones) were settlers and adventurers of Portuguese origin in Senegambia, Cabo Verde, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and other areas on the coast of West Africa . Many were Jews —often New Christians—escaping persecution from the Po...

This Thread will be a book review of Ronald Dulton Jr's Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America but only his assertion/conclusion that "The Jews" were significantly involved in the Slave Trade. Dullton's "argument" can be cotton-picked in Chapter 4, "When Did Racism Towar...