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- Sat Mar 02, 2024 6:22 pm
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Pillars of Hercules
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1407
Re: Interpreting this "Herakles Seal"
https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2024/02/UehlingerB_fig.2a-1024x754.png I want to read this Seal. Does a narrative start at the left, read to the right? The centrality of the Great Warrior's combat w/ the Hydra (half the seal) is the main event, but the ideographic story is complex. What doe...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 4:13 pm
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Pillars of Hercules
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1407
Re: Yahweh as Tyrian Herakles?
Is this an Egyptianized Philistine(?) version of the Herakles myth -- w/ a Very Israelitish Herakles battling a Typhonesque Hydra? Or should I see Leviathan slayed by the (Yahweh-)Warrior-Priest, between three supporting Seraphim: a Scarab, a Griffin and a Basilisk? Of course, I've been very curious...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 1:05 pm
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Pillars of Hercules
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1407
Re: Herakles Seal, discovered in Israel
A better image: https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2024/02/UehlingerB_fig.2a-1024x754.png Without looking online elsewhere or re-reading the article it came from, I see at first glance: Clockwise from Far Left: 1) the Winged Beetle/Monster (Ethan identified) 2) a Basilisk (maybe), Upper Left Qu...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 3:11 am
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Pillars of Hercules
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1407
Re: Herakles Seal, discovered in Israel
Not to threadjack, but this was in my news feed:
https://greekreporter.com/2024/02/28/he ... ent-image/
"2800-Year-Old Seal Provides ‘missing link’ to Hercules"
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:49 pm
- Forum: General Religious Discussion
- Topic: Did the ancient prophet Ezekiel tell the truth about Russ
- Replies: 13
- Views: 14794
Re: Ya, like 'Nobody Cares, Bro'
In a full-scale nuclear exchange, approximately 91 mln people would be dead in a day or so. Ho-hum. https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2024-02-13/twelve-thousand-bombs-seminar-series-explores-the-threat-and-consequences-of-nuclear-war Caplan draws a comparison to the debate on gun ownership, in which s...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:29 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Using ChatGPT
- Replies: 162
- Views: 116672
Re: Forever?
I have asked to ChatGBT: Okaaaaay, pause it right there. ChatGPT is well known for not being reliable in its accuracy. It's an AI designed to simulate conversation, not to fact-check. There are many examples of ChatGPT stating inaccurate information with complete confidence. It is - and I cannot st...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:14 pm
- Forum: General Religious Discussion
- Topic: Did the ancient prophet Ezekiel tell the truth about Russ
- Replies: 13
- Views: 14794
Re: The AntiChrist, Armageddon
More nuclear war chatter from The Beast. Old news, how it ends
https://www.icanw.org/new_study_on_us_r ... uclear_war
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 6:24 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Oskar Goldberg, Die Wirklichkeit der Hebraeer (1925)
- Replies: 0
- Views: 611
Oskar Goldberg, Die Wirklichkeit der Hebraeer (1925)
Has this book been translated, made available (unpublished somewhere) in English? Transfinite Life: Oskar Goldberg and the Vitalist Imagination [2017], p.vi-vii : It is quite remarkable that one and the same book, Goldberg’s Reality of the Hebrews , could be read by Thomas Mann as a Jewish version o...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 6:44 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: New Evidence for Celsus's True Word Being Written 177 - 180 CE
- Replies: 18
- Views: 835
eorrespoiidiiig? Naucratis, Phoning It In to the Coast
https://greekreporter.com/2024/02/11/naucratis-first-ancient-greek-colony-egypt/ that they may become temperate instead of dissolute [κἂν οἱ ἀληθῶς τυφλώτ τοντες λοιδορῶνται ἡμῖν ὡς τυφλώττουσι καὶ οἱ βουκολοῦντες, εἴτε Ἰουδαῖοι εἴτε Ἕλληνες, τοὺς συγκατατιθεμένους αὐτοῖς ἡμῖν ἐγκαλῶσιν ὡς βουκολοῦσ...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 8:15 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Claudius was Jewish?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 563
Re: Salome
Salome, the Quintessential Jewish Whore
Workbook, on the popularity of S. as Jewish name
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salome_(d ... %27%20aunt.
Workbook, on the popularity of S. as Jewish name
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salome_(d ... %27%20aunt.