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http://legacy.owensboro.kctcs.edu/crunyon/e261c/06-Plato/greek_mystery_cults.htm The creed was essentially the affirmation of the passion (suffering), death, and resurrection of the divine son of Dionysus, and resurrection of all men into a future of reward and punishment. Since the Titans, who had...

From the Wikipedia article on Gematria: A Mishnaic textual source makes clear that the use of gematria is dated to at least the Tannaic period. Pirkei Avot 3:23: רבי אלעזר בן חסמא אומר, קנין ופתחי נדה הן הן גופי הלכות. תקופות וגמטריאות פרפראות לחכמה. Rabbi Eleazar Chisma[8] said: the laws of mixed ...

FWIW a globe with diagonal cross (probably astronomical/astrological) does occur in Mithraism



Andrew Criddle

That is where some of the relevant textual evidence would come in handy. Indeed. Roger Beck, The Religion of the Mithras Cult in the Roman Empire , p. 21 The tauroctony in relief form sometimes carries on its reverse a second scene, in which Mithras and the Sun god feast together.14 The two gods re...

Supposedly the 7 day week was based on there being 7 obviously moving visible celestial objects (5 planets visible from earth plus the sun and earth's moon). The medieval alchemists really went to town on lining up the 7 planets (= wanderers) with the 7 days of the week, the 7 heraldic tinctures, 7...

Speculations about ET's are almost as old as speculations about the existence of other Earthlike objects in the Universe, if this quote from Democritus (460 - 370 BCE) is any guide: In some worlds there is no Sun and Moon, in others they are larger than in our world, and in others more numerous. In...

The execution of James happened in the very late 4th century.
The account of the death seems to have been composed a good deal later.

Andrew Criddle

Thanks! The downside is that I don't think we have Origen's commentary on Matthew 28, which I am most interested in. Right. I think it ends around Matthew 19 or 20. There is a Latin version of Origen on Matthew which goes nearly to the end of Matthew (but not Matthew chapter 28) see http://www.roge...

what is the reason for the gods to cause the flood in the epic of gilgamesh? In Gilgamesh it is IIUC unclear. In the related Atrahasis humans are too noisy. Twelve hundred years had not gone by; the land had expanded and the people had multiplied. The land was bellowing like wild oxen, and the god ...

This may possibly be of interest LXX Zechariah and Joshua Andrew Criddle καὶ ἔσται ὁ ἱερεὺς ἐκ δεξιῶν αὐτου the priest is read by most but not all of the Greek manuscripts. A few read a priest omitting the definite article (see discussion in the link above). If the priest is the text used by Philo,...