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".... everything uses the literature of Porphyry, blah-blah-blah..."
Rubbish, bullsh*t, delusion: which is it?

Porphyry ripped off material hundreds of years older. Librarian cobbler. Such Late-Dating lies, deeply misinformative.

https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/t_JM_ArticleMainImageFaceDetect/503379 Essential Bibliography: Herbert VERRETH, The northern Sinai from the 7th century BC till the 7th century AD. A guide to the sources , Leuven, 2006. Recent Egyptian temple site discovery. https://www.npr.org...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/26/unprecedented-phoenician-necropolis-osuna-spain Archaeologists exploring the site – which was discovered amid the Roman ruins in the town of Osuna, 55 miles (90km) east of Seville – say the Phoenician-Carthaginian cemetery dates back to the fourth or fif...

In my fairly recent research into the Therapeutae of Philo Judaeus, I realized that Yonge's Translation was exceedingly poor. Unfortunately, it has set an abysmal standard which subsequent translators have followed. Few scholars go beyond Yonge or Colson, sadly. For my own research, that clearly wou...

I think this is a significant discovery. It is a period archaeological site dated 30 BC through Byzantine times and an industrial settlement VERY CLOSE to where Joan Taylor (2003) thinks the Therapeutae colony was located (c.15-30 AD), a few kms by boat. Same time, same place (basically). Sediment s...

This interests me because I suppose Hathor travelled with (Proto-)Jewish merchants in Antiquity to trade-sites around the Mediterranean: 1) Some Egyptian 'Proto-Jews' were known to worship the 'Queen of Heaven' (Astarte) according to Jeremiah (650 BC; perhaps closer to 450 BC). 2) The Hebrew 'Queen ...

Ah! I had never thought of a refugee factor to the Judaization, but that makes a lot of sense. The implications seem to be: 1.) The Judaean refugees became involved in the extremely popular mystery religions, leading to the building of a new Hebraic mystery religion based on Judaic lore and Helleni...

"Same-same, but different."

This LINK gives a fuller expression to what interests me. A second text also presents a royal name for Moses; however, it is not his parents that gave him this name, but mystics. Clement of Alexandria {c.201 AD}, writing in the 2nd–3rd centuries CE states the following in Stromata I.23.153,I.96 &quo...