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by billd89
Fri Jun 03, 2022 6:57 am
Forum: Classical Texts and History
Topic: Critical Study on Chronology of the Ancient World
Replies: 43
Views: 61269

Fomenko's Neo-Soviet Revisionism

My feedback on all this is to point out that the author wrote prior to the scientific development of radio-carbon dating and that this development has enabled scholars to estimate the dating of various manuscripts within some upper and lower bounds. You're simply wrong. Fomenko first began publishi...
by billd89
Thu Jun 02, 2022 8:04 am
Forum: Classical Texts and History
Topic: Critical Study on Chronology of the Ancient World
Replies: 43
Views: 61269

Re: Critical Nonsense.

But isn't the stock Tinfoil Hat Reply "C-14 results are faked"? Indeed, Fomenko rejects C-14 data. He's written an entire chapter of a book disputing C-14 Dating, with the rhetorical question: “ARE RADIOCARBON DATINGS TO BE TRUSTED?” so you really cannot pretend it's just one or two asides...
by billd89
Wed Jun 01, 2022 6:54 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Crucifixion in the Ancient World?
Replies: 13
Views: 2255

Re: 1 Wooden Cross

The only reason to change the staking into a cross(beam) is to have a dignified death... One, only one reason?? Suppose a) crucifixion was (rarely, dramatically) performed in antiquity, b) miraculous survivals had occurred (rumored, etc.), and c) some older, popular Salvationist Myth(s) involved a ...
by billd89
Tue May 31, 2022 12:31 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Crucifixion in the Ancient World?
Replies: 13
Views: 2255

Re: Timber

Question: when was Palestine de-forested? The Bronze Age? Deserts and semi-arid areas of the ME don't have big 'trees' - palm wood is poor for that. If the Egyptians were taking lumber from Lebanon c.1000 BC, doesn't that suggest much of the Levant had already lost its big trees? The kind of timber ...
by billd89
Tue May 31, 2022 12:07 pm
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Varro on Iao (=Osiris), c.66 BC
Replies: 6
Views: 2740

Re: Varro on 'Iao' c.50 BC, and Philo on 'Light' c.25 AD

De Mensibus 4.53: ὁ δὲ Ῥωμαῖος Βάρρων περὶ αὐτοῦ διαλαβών φησι παρὰ Χαλδαίοις ἐν τοῖς μυστικοῖς αὐτὸν λέγεσθαι Ἰάω ἀντὶ τοῦ φῶς νοητὸν τῇ Φοινίκων γλώσσῃ , ὥς φησιν Ἑρέννιος . "The Roman Varro's understanding about Him {i.e. the Jews' God} tells that Chaldaeans (in their mysteries) called Him ...
by billd89
Mon May 30, 2022 11:52 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Varro on Iao (=Osiris), c.66 BC
Replies: 6
Views: 2740

Re: Varro on Iao (c.50 BC?)

Context is almost everything, but there's alot to unpack in all that - and John the Lydian is a topic in its own right. My focus is narrower. Any late, muddled and unique claim may be reasonably doubted. For me, the Herennius attribution is a later scribal error*: Philo (Judaeus) was obviously meant...
by billd89
Sun May 29, 2022 5:00 pm
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Varro on Iao (=Osiris), c.66 BC
Replies: 6
Views: 2740

Varro on Iao (=Osiris), c.66 BC

Among descendants of Egyptianized Judaic Phoenicians ("Chaldaeans"), Osiris = Ἰαὼ (Iao/Yao/Ieod/Ieud/etc.) in the period c.350-150 BC. Hermes Trismegistos was lately established in Egypt (Manetho, 250 BC) when anti-Semite priests might still theoretically demonize 'Jews'/Sethians under (Se...
by billd89
Thu May 26, 2022 6:54 pm
Forum: General Religious Discussion
Topic: Utterly Lost - Help? "K. F. Meyer" (1870s scholar)
Replies: 12
Views: 17969

It's super-nerdy analysis, I know

The expanse of what's covered in the essay is epic; my concern is IF he's a bullshitter, because some of his conclusions are radical and unfamiliar to me (admittedly: an amateur, reading across several disciplines). He footnotes diligently; I believe he's legit. I am concerned because I cannot find ...
by billd89
Thu May 26, 2022 11:27 am
Forum: General Religious Discussion
Topic: Utterly Lost - Help? "K. F. Meyer" (1870s scholar)
Replies: 12
Views: 17969

Utterly Lost - Help? "K. F. Meyer" (1870s scholar)

I have found an extraordinary article of 137 pages, in German (which I am translating), but I cannot find anything about the Author . He (?) has a very common name. Die Sieben vor Theben und die chaldäische Woche. 1875 . The essay appeared in a Berlin ethnology periodical. I would assume he was a Cl...