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I have seen a lot of Roman Provenance material lately, and while there's nothing new, this particular subject came to mind and left me unsatisfied. I've mentioned it in much wider speculation before, but my dissatisfaction leaves me wanting to emphasize this one question alone. We know, largely thro...

1600 BC ... Seth / Yam / ? 1500 BC ... Seth / Yam / Baal Hadad 1400 BC ... Seth / Baal Hadad 1300 BC ... Seth / Baal Hadad 1200 BC ... Seth / Baal Hadad 1100 BC ... Baal Hadad / Seth 1000 BC ... Baal Hadad / Seth ..900 BC ... Baal Hadad / Seth ..800 BC ... Baal Zephon /Amun Ra / ?? ..700 BC ... Baa...

1600 BC ... Seth / Yam / ? 1500 BC ... Seth / Yam / Baal Hadad 1400 BC ... Seth / Baal Hadad 1300 BC ... Seth / Baal Hadad 1200 BC ... Seth / Baal Hadad 1100 BC ... Baal Hadad / Seth 1000 BC ... Baal Hadad / Seth ..900 BC ... Baal Hadad / Seth ..800 BC ... Baal Zephon /Amun Ra / ?? ..700 BC ... Baa...

if one relies upon external verifications for both relative and absolute dates and not solely on internal interpretations of the sources, the Jesus for whom the first Christian matyrs died was the Jesus of Marcion and of Justin. Only later does the gospel Jesus surface, that is, the Jesus construct...

Experiences that deconstruct and restructure reality are always both over- and underrated by most people. There's a huge trend right now called "Critical Social Theory" - "wokism". It's based entirely on a epistemological dialectic which treats metaphysics as irrelevant. People ...

The idea of Christians dying for the gospel is not because the gospel is based in history, but because they believe Jesus was raised from the dead and they will be raised, too, if they maintain their faith, even to death. I don't think any notion of historical truth to the story makes any differenc...

the incense that reaches God from an unclean heart is unacceptable to Him. This was the exact situation we see in Jeremiah 6:20, when the children of Israel burnt cannabis unto God. God rejected their incense because it was coming from wrong hearts and was a choking stench in His nostrils. At that ...

How does that explain the existence of archaic versions of this name far before the creation of the Tetragrammaton? The Shasu have YHW and the Ugaritic Baal Cycle has a certain YW as the proper name of river god Yam. If the substantial hypothesis that the Shasu of Edom and Arabian peninsula are the...

I have argued that Arab civilization was effectively created by Neo-Assyrian hegemony. I think Israelite civilization (including Jewish civilization), while not created by Assyria, was irrevocably altered by it, and integrated into it. Jews and Arabs fought alongside the last Assyrian monarchs at Ha...

The rabbinical efforts arose as a response to the Romans meddling with the Tanakh in order to create Christianity. Paul is guaranteed to be Roman just like Mark and Matthew Self-indulgent here, but consider the following. Paul (not the author, but the character the author of the early authentic epi...