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- Sun Mar 10, 2024 9:06 am
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Pillars of Hercules
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1651
Re: Resheph-Seth
It would appear that The "Mighty One with Seven Heads" (Šlyṭ D.šbʿt Rašm) is Leviathan . But also note: here is "Resheph assimilated with Seth as a winged figure spearing Apophis snake, Nineteenth-Twentieth Dynasties {c.1100 BC}, Royal Art and History Museums, Brussels After: Grande,...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 3:12 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Canaanite 'Temple of the Rising Sun' Discovered near Jerusalem
- Replies: 0
- Views: 152
Canaanite 'Temple of the Rising Sun' Discovered near Jerusalem
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2024-03-10/ty-article/archaeologists-discover-canaanite-temple-of-the-rising-sun-in-central-israel/0000018e-26fe-d7d3-abce-66ffa0260000 Inside the halls of the {c.1150 BC} temple the archaeologists found many cultic objects that blended Egyptian and Canaanite cult...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 2:57 am
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Rome 4 AD in 3D
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1653
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 6:28 pm
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Pillars of Hercules
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1651
Re: Herakles
Don't you imagine the Greeks ripped off almost everything, the Interpretatio Graeca as bald cultural fronting ?
The Phoencian was almost certainly (definitely) older.
The Phoencian was almost certainly (definitely) older.
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 10:44 am
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Spackling over the Crumbly Bits
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1047
Re: Athena Parthenos of NashVegas
Adequate summary for mainstream audience:
https://www.thecollector.com/athena-parthenos-statue/
https://www.thecollector.com/athena-parthenos-statue/
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:57 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Revisiting Philo's Therapeutae and their Context/Timeline
- Replies: 72
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Re: Revisiting Philo's Therapeutae, and Scholem
Furthermore -- given what he has said above, connecting the "old Jewish Magicians of the Papyri" -- isn't Scholem suggesting an older Judeo-Hellenistic tradition, of 'Jewish circles having extremely close contact with' Hermeticism? (In another post , I have already addressed the fact that ...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 10:38 am
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Pillars of Hercules
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1651
Re: Seven-Headed Dragon
I've eaten gator tail in a fancy resto. It's... chewy. ( This looks tasty!) Only Revelations mention δράκων μέγας πυρρός (big red dragon) having seven heads (κεφαλὰς ἑπτὰ) ... I'm not confined by either Biblical references or Xian interpretations. Certainly, the Seven-Headed Dragon does not originat...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:10 am
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: CGI Greek stuff, 2024
- Replies: 0
- Views: 122
CGI Greek stuff, 2024
I'm not satisfied w/ this, but I like the concept and hope the digital rendering improves artistically. Whatever happened to the 'vision' thing? Aesthetics!
of course, I grew up w/ this:
of course, I grew up w/ this:
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 8:05 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Origen Identifies Jesus as One of the Men at Sodom?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 155
Jesus in Egypt
Καὶ βέλτιόν γε ἦν ὑπεκστῆναι τὸ παιδίον Ἰησοῦν τὴν Ἡρώδου ἐπιβουλὴν καὶ ἀποδημῆσαι μετὰ τῶν τρεφόντων αὐτὸ "εἰς Αἴγυπτον" "ἕως τῆς τελευτῆς" τοῦ ἐπιβουλεύοντος... And it was certainly better that the Child Jesus should escape the snare of Herod, and should reside with His parent...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 7:12 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: A "Messianic" Use of Chrestos in Against Celsus
- Replies: 30
- Views: 825
Chrestos has Multiple Meanings
... τίνα τρόπον ἔσθ' ὅτε καὶ ἐπὶ χρηστοῖς ἐσομένοις κομῆται ἀνέτειλαν ... "how and under what circumstances comets have appeared even during the right [original translation: favorable] times " Clearly Chrestos can mean "the right one" i.e. one who appears at the right time viz. ...