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The Septuagint gives in Leviticus οἰωνιεῖσθε and in Deuteronomy κληδονιζόμενος ... Considered 'Chaldaean arts'. If the OT was largely composed at Alexandria c.272 BC, we can safely ignore any strictly Roman meanings and focus instead on Judeo-Egyptian or Hellenistic definitions primarily. In fact, ...

More evidence of an inconvenient truth? Perish the thought! In the last fortnight or so, a number of news articles have popped into my phone's Googlefeed: here is an apt summary about recent discoveries of Necromancy at Te’omim Cave . But by labeling this evidence "pagan", the Jewish resea...

OK, I see what was going on. In the Wiki page bld89 gave above, I clicked on the link for Travis McHenrey; https://www.occult.live/index.php/Travis_McHenry In the list of this individual's published works, I see one called Angel Tarot (deck) and poof, there it was. The Angels of the Kabbala series ...

Ushering infants to meet Jeebus? (Blame the Sin of a Working Mother, not dutifully caring for her own children.) Do I have to do all your thinking for you? Someone must be blamed/there has to be a Reason, it's all God's Plan, etc. etc. The Answer to GRIEF . Mark 10:14 "Permit the children to co...

Here is a Shoop that I made about five years ago, on 'old paper' and with various jpg images which I found online and assembled myself. Several of the people in this photograph are important: that's Emma Edelstein partly obscured in the very back, by the right-side window. More obviously, Ludwig is ...

If the paper is really as worn as it seems it looks 19th century, but the color must have been added. The image in the OP appears to me (i.e., in my guess) to be a 19th-century (as DCH noted) English Catholic broadside (single broadsheet, not a book page) print, one side only, with the red ink orig...

Ahhhhh, no. We will have to disagree. That site's imagery looks very different -- demonic and Metal (I think). Here is their Metatron: https://assets.bigcartel.com/product_images/315126867/Metatron.jpg Here is an Islamic portrayal of the angel Metatron (Arabic: ميططرون) depicted in the Daqa’iq al-Ha...

Some of these Spirit Beings are new to me! (This image looks like it was made in the 1960s or 1970s; no source info, sorry.)
From this blog post: "What Do Biblically Accurate Angels Look Like?"

Why is arch-historicist Bart Ehrman comfortable with his conviction that Paul thought Jesus was an angel? Because the probability that an ancient might think a real person was an angel isn't zero. ... If some ancients thought that angels were capable of intervening in human history while "pass...

But John is offended when he hears of the miracles of Christ, as of an alien god. Well, I on my side will first explain the reason of his offence, that I may the more easily explode the scandal of our heretic. IV.18-9 [4]Sed scandalizatur Ioannes auditis virtutibus Christi, ut alterius. At ego rati...