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Death was not understood...might sleep have been understood as dying and rising? The interesting idea here is, "What behaviors do we attach to the linguistic phrase meant by "sleeping"? Tacitus, Histories , Book 4: "The murder of Calpurnius Galerianus caused the utmost consterna...

Let's have some REAL Astrotheology! The soldiers who had slept there on the night in question said that the temple of Jupiter had opened of itself with great clangour and that some of the guards had been so terrified that they fainted. Don't forget that Vespasian was voted a god by the Roman Senate...

Let's have some REAL Astrotheology! While he [[Vitellius]] was behaving in this way, evil omens occurred. A comet was seen, and the moon, contrary to precedent, appeared to suffer two eclipses, being obscured on the fourth and on the seventh day. Also people saw two suns at once, one in the west wea...

Coupla' quik comments: Was Jesus originally "Jesus the Good" [Lamb/Shepherd]? Look at http://lexiconcordance.com/hebrew/0563.html (for example) and compare with the next word in Strong's..., #0564, "Immer". They look sorta' pretty much the same, yes? "Sorta, pretty much the ...

Interesting, but I should perhaps ask to limit the scope likewise to the Middle East, Northern Africa, and Southern Europe (i.e., the Roman and Persian empires and surrounding environs). By the way, this is not some kind of challenge or test. It is just to provide the historical context, which is a...

Deuteronomy 17: 2 - 5 (RSV): [2] "If there is found among you, within any of your towns which the LORD your God gives you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, in transgressing his covenant, [3] and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the su...

Outside of Christianity, what do we know regarding people in the general period of 200 BC to 300 CE, the period of the origins of Christianity, who are supposed to have been refashioning their beliefs according to their observations of the changing night sky? What is the milieu of this type of orga...

Yes, and we know roughly when the Garden of Eden was written, after "Asherah, Consort of El" had become a mere totem in Israel, when the God was one and "He" walked with the humans. The use of "Signs in the Heavens" became a use of OBJECTS for calculating calendars and ...

Deuteronomy 17: 2 - 5 (RSV): [2] "If there is found among you, within any of your towns which the LORD your God gives you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, in transgressing his covenant, [3] and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun...

Paul Younan's Aramaic has "...Herodia was A THREAT to him..."

CW