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stephan happy huller wrote:Dumbest book of all time. Makes Joe Atwill read like Shakespeare.

I wouldn't be so harsh. It was a contributor to the liberation of the scrolls.

You've been asked several times to explain the following assertions: Damascus was in the tetrarchy of Philip which Caligula gave to Agrippa I. spin Sat Oct 26, 2013 3:29 pm wrote : Umm, it [Damascus] was, as part of Philip's territory, a direct Roman possession after the death of Philip and before ...

So now the author of 2 Corinthians 11:32 used the wrong term for the commander in charge of a Nabatean city? And how exactly do you know this? Yes, under Aretas a city military commander would likely have been termed a στρατηγος (strategos). Martin Hengel, Paul Between Damascus and Antioch: The Unk...

spin: And do you have any literature about the function or selection of an ethnarch beside those in descriptions relating to the Jews? TedM: Were the Jews different in some way to the Romans than others such that Rome would have allowed an 'ethnarch' for them but not the others? What difference wou...

spin: And do you have any literature about the function or selection of an ethnarch beside those in descriptions relating to the Jews? TedM: Were the Jews different in some way to the Romans than others such that Rome would have allowed an 'ethnarch' for them but not the others? What difference wou...

If Damascus was supposed to be a part of Aretas' kingdom (regardless of whether is was Aretas III or IV) WHY THE HELL WOULD HE NEED AN ETHNARCH to run things there! Think about it for god's sake. Someone earlier quoted from a book that claimed Aretas was located in Petra, so perhaps Damascus needed...

If you receive the Holy Spirit, and let Him work thru you, convict you of your sins and produce good works, then isn't that enough "proof"? As for exactly which denomination is the "true" one, well that is determined by your own personality and God's plan for you. "Truth&qu...

If Damascus was supposed to be a part of Aretas' kingdom (regardless of whether is was Aretas III or IV) WHY THE HELL WOULD HE NEED AN ETHNARCH to run things there! Think about it for god's sake. Beats me, but then, I don't find the verse tenable. However, the writer may have been confused about th...

Jeez, Dave, read the thread if you really need to say something and spare the logorrhea. In all your meanderings, ever heard, say, of an ethnarch of Philip in some other state? or of Herod Antipas, or anyone else? The ethnarchs in Egypt were local appointments, not appointed by, say, Herod or any ot...

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spin wrote:Myths don't interact with this world.

Tell that to Joseph John Campbell. ~~

- Munch, munch... What's he doing now?
- I think he's rooting around in the daisy patch.
- Oh. Muffin?
- Naaa. Gotta watch the waist.