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by billd89
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...
by billd89
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...
by billd89
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...
by billd89
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?
by billd89
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...
by billd89
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...
by billd89
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, ...
by billd89
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,...