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Another DCHindley gem! IMHO, though, Judeans did not seem to have much influence from Egyptian myths, although there was a strong regional rivalry between them, full of hot headed polemics. There was a hardcover book written and/or edited by Russell Gmirkin & Andrew Mein entitled Berossus and Ge...

I'm uncertain if this bird/species is the male Eurasian Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus), e.g. a mummified sparrowhawk in the University of Chicago's collection (OIM E9162) shown here , p.112. Randy L. Shonkwiler, "The Behdetite: A Study of Horus the Behdetite from the Old Kingdom to the Conquest ...

I do sometimes—general observation here—get a sense from some here of much grievance. Sometimes fairly labelled hate. Against academics, scholars, and others. No wonder many avoid. On a global community internet forum -of presumably normal adults!- I first noticed the extraordinary viciousness affo...

“Josephus, by the 90s CE was aware of Christians." Yebbut. I don't think 'Jesus Christianity' was a big deal in 90 AD. We shouldn't assume it was well-known. Organized Temple Judaism had collapsed - 'what comes next?' is an obvious question from historians - but I cannot begin to fathom how a r...

Mysteries warrant speculation. I'm by no means certain on this , but a number of factors do seem to point to 'Midian/Sinai' as a leading candidate. If (some combination of the following is true): a) Simon Magus (c.60 AD) and Cerinthus (c.75 AD) borrowed the older idea of a second Creator from the my...

Now in the 1980s among the Hutu population of Rwanda there were extremists who had decided that to overthrow the long-time domination of the Hutu majority by the Tutsi minority, "*All Tutsi must die!" This was what folks were caught on camera saying as they hacked their neighbors to death...

Alexandria [2021]: Jews have been part of the ethnic and religious landscape of Egypt since the 6th Century BCE and inhabited Alexandria from its foundation. Then, “the Macedonian conquest opened the floodgates of a new Jewish immigration to Egypt.” The Letter of Aristeas (Let.Aris.12) in combinati...

I'm reading a great deal, multiple PhDs and books simultaneously, and not taking notes, but since I haven't known exactly what I'm looking for, a random factoid (mis)remembered is driving me up the wall. I thought I had read (in E. Mary Smallwood's The Jews Under Roman Rule ) of a small obscure even...

I don't believe Josephus or Philo give us any reason to think that Jewish authorities jailed or whipped, certainly not executed, those who held unconventional views. The only violence that broke out that we know of was between Jews and non-Jews. Roman governance is one of the arguments sometimes us...

I should clarify: when I say 'simple myth' I don't mean 'all false!' Elements may be (partly) accurate. I haven't studied the Moses myth complex at all: I am aware of Jan Assmann's Moses the Egyptian [1998], but I am especially focused upon pre-1938 German-language scholarship. But it is possible th...