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So everything Secret Alias has written testifying to Morton Smith being a slandered heterosexual is now proven rubbish? Oh dear. Color me surprised. And what a hill to die on ... Whether or not Smith was gay (or bisexual) I do not care; whether a scholar's self-loathing, or a 'hidden self' warped hi...

On the Question of Annihilation: Ken M. Penner's "Philo's Eschatology, Personal and Cosmic", p.17 : If punishment is not something Philo expected for the impious after death, what did he expect instead? In the discussion above on the immortality of the soul, the question was raised, what i...

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,...

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...

Don't you imagine the Greeks ripped off almost everything, the Interpretatio Graeca as bald cultural fronting ?

The Phoencian was almost certainly (definitely) older.

Adequate summary for mainstream audience:
https://www.thecollector.com/athena-parthenos-statue/

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 ...

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...

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: