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Who or what Deity was 'The Good' (concept) which Philo is tacitly belittling at DVC 2 ? What were Followers of 'The Good' theosophy called, as Jewish heretics, in the First Century Diaspora? By (my reading of) the context of De Vita Contemplativa , they must have been competitors: a rival cult to hi...

How many experts in the useless field of Biblical research can claim raising up a savior of lives? Do you ever think about Pantuck? ... Every life that Pantuck saves owes a little bit of that goodness to Morton Smith. You're probably vastly overstating the 'debt' Pantuck's genius & skill owed t...

What do they want? Fabio? 'Merkins? A Muscle-Daddy: Truck-Stop Bathroom Savior! https://troyjonathanritchie.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/muscular-jesus-breaking-cross.jpg Too Real. https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2024/01/501_199263.html And the mandatory Righteous Gemstones vid ... "Wom...

Bones, skin, fingernails, toenails and possibly a kidney: Older Than Jesus. (Surely, DNA can and will be extracted.) https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-68092307 Radiocarbon dates of 2,000 - 2,500 ya are not so precise, really. "Tollund Man, I." by Seamus Heaney, 1979. Some day I ...

Primarily, we recognize Resheph by the gazelle-head on his crown. (I very much doubt the interpretation of the gazelle 'noxious, pestilential and harmful' symbol/animal in the passage below, however.) https://isthatinthebible.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/resheph.png?w=172 Fierce! When cornered, the g...

I am old enough to remember when the politically-incorrect terms "Eurofag" and "artfag" would have been casually uttered to disparage this sort of thing. Do we read the model as portrayed here as "effeminate" tho*? a) The Poster. https://www.semana-santa.org/wp-content/...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/first-foreign-takeover-ancient-egypt-was-uprising-not-invasion-180975354/ Beni Hasan Tomb 3 Khnumhotep II (BH3) is notable for the depiction of caravans of Semitic traders ("Procession of the Aamu"). https://arce.org/wp-content/uploads/files-import...

Roundly mocked, and deservedly so. https://www.timesofisrael.com/egyptian-pyramid-undergoes-renovation-drawing-criticism/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/29/video-showing-renovation-of-egyptian-pyramid-triggers-anger https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2024/01/WhatsApp-Image-2024...

https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-ugvs-machine-gun-combat-robots-drones-1864843 Terminato r's future is almost here: Wu1kpnCylKQ You probably saw this news a couple of years back: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-a-robot-is-roaming-the-pompeii-ruins-180979856/ https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1...

Recueil d'Archéologie Orientale , Vol. 7 [1906], p.173-4 : Despite its Hellenic appearance, Arsippos is singularly reminiscent of the Phoenician Reseph or Arseph , which was, moreover, expressly identified with Apollo (bilingual inscriptions, Greek and Phoenician) as we know. Now, the Sidonian with...