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by billd89
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...
by billd89
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...
by billd89
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...
by billd89
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

Image

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"
by billd89
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...
by billd89
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...
by billd89
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
by billd89
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...
by billd89
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...
by billd89
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.