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- Sat Dec 09, 2023 7:11 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: DEMONSTRATION THAT NO SUCH PERSON AS JESUS CHRIST EVER EXISTED
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4419
Re: "Spiritual, Not Religious"
This is largely a Postwar terminological distinction established/popularized by Alcoholics Anonymous and the dozens of other Twelve Step Fellowships that emerged after the 1950s. If 7% of the population experiences addiction (NIH stat), and ~35% of the population is impacted overall, the outsized in...
- Sun Dec 03, 2023 6:52 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Conceiving Of A Cyrenean Jewish Cult At Siwa; Making Zeus-Ammon Into Yahweh; Alexander as Jesus
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3280
Amun at Siwa
In 2003, a temple was unearthed by Paolo Gallo's Italian Archaeological Mission in Alexandria (CMAIA) in the El-Bahrein Oasis, 140 km southeast of Siwa in the Libyan Desert. The tripartite sanctuary was decorated with painted reliefs under Nectanebo I (c.370 BC) and some architectural parallels can...
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 5:10 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Revisiting Philo's Therapeutae and their Context/Timeline
- Replies: 72
- Views: 172513
Re: De Cosson's Mareotis [1935].
Anthony De Cosson, Mareotis : being a short account of the history and ancient monuments of the north-western desert of Egypt and of Lake Mareotis [1935], p.33; In spite of these defeats there was a steady and persistent infiltration of Libyan and Meshwesh immigrants into the Delta under the immedi...
- Thu Nov 30, 2023 5:43 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: "early Hebrew inscription from Mt. Ebal" claimed
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4325
- Thu Nov 30, 2023 4:31 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Arius and the Agraphon of the Skillful Moneychanger in the Rabbinic Literature
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1929
Re: Skillful
What bets are you making on FanDuel?
- Thu Nov 30, 2023 3:38 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Henry Kissinger
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2068
Re: Kissinger DEAD OLD F*CK.
Again: this has nothing to do with "Jewish Texts and History." My mother dined next to him, exchanged pleasantries, at a Bohemian Club event in Manhattan sometime in the mid-1980s. He was a Mass-murderer. War criminal. "Etc." https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/he...
- Thu Nov 30, 2023 2:04 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Moses Parting the Red Sea
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4328
Moses Parting the Red Sea
Maria Gerolemou, Recognizing Miracles in Antiquity and Beyond [2018] p.290 : The importance of Alexander’s divine blessing as a key element in Callisthenes’ image of the king is well known,60 and he is also reputed to have been involved in scientific inquiry,61 which makes him a suitable option to i...
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 12:39 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Revisiting Philo's Therapeutae and their Context/Timeline
- Replies: 72
- Views: 172513
Reading between the lines
In January, 1938, A.D. Nock published an article by André-Jean Festugière on The Krater , an Hermetic symbol. Father Festugière (an anti-semite? anti-German?) dismissively references Edelstein's (German Jewish) friend and colleague's work, For the record : Gerschom Scholem writing to Morton Smith, ...
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 1:22 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Revisiting Philo's Therapeutae and their Context/Timeline
- Replies: 72
- Views: 172513
Rockefeller Money, Follow the Money
Moving the trees around, my friend, moving the trees around. Rockefeller and Kublai Khan are moving the trees around. Oh, Rockefeller moved some trees around alright. I like to keep it factual; see Jan Cigliano, Jan Cigliano Hartman, Showplace of America: Cleveland's Euclid Avenue, 1850-1910 [2002,...
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 3:00 pm
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Modernizing the Golden Ass and Setting It in New York in the 21st Century
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5984
Re: Ass in the 21st Century
Drivel.