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by billd89
Tue May 10, 2022 8:51 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Egyptian Pelusium, on the map: an ancient 'Jewish' town?
Replies: 6
Views: 2411

Re: Zeus Kasios, at Pelusion

Perhaps not in this context, but Zeus Kasios is exactly and uncontroversially the same as Baal Hadad of Ugarit. In his triumphant form. His pre-triumphant form is represented by Adonis. For the Greeks, Adonis IS Hadad. Zeus Kasios is a concession to Ugarit's recognition of Hadad as Zeus. I apprecia...
by billd89
Mon May 09, 2022 6:52 pm
Forum: Classical Texts and History
Topic: Critical Study on Chronology of the Ancient World
Replies: 43
Views: 63709

Re: Fomenko, a Neo-Soviet Propagandist

According to wiki - and I wouldnt waste another minute of my time reading this nutbar - A. Fomenko insists "the lands west of the 13 colonies that now constitute the American West and Middle West were a far eastern part of 'Siberian-American Empire' prior to its disintegration in 1775, and many...
by billd89
Mon May 09, 2022 5:06 pm
Forum: General Religious Discussion
Topic: Ancient Egyptian Medicine
Replies: 0
Views: 2837

Ancient Egyptian Medicine

by billd89
Mon May 09, 2022 5:21 am
Forum: Other Texts and History
Topic: Ten Oldest Known Sculptures
Replies: 1
Views: 2840

Ten Oldest Known Sculptures

Prehistoric artifacts tell stories:
https://listverse.com/2022/04/30/ten-ol ... the-world/
by billd89
Sat May 07, 2022 7:59 pm
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Did Moses Exist? The Myth of the Israelite Lawgiver
Replies: 50
Views: 85915

Re: Dating the Hyksos Expulsion to the Thera Eruption (1538 BC)

https://volcanodiscovery.de/uploads/pics/minoischespanorama_09.jpg Timeline: 1800 - 1720: Canaanites arrive in northern Egypt 1650: Hyksos take over (date uncertain) 1630 - 1600: Thera caldera eruption 1550: Hyksos expelled by Ahmose (Akh Moshe, "Brother of Moses"?)... The record is poor....
by billd89
Fri May 06, 2022 6:47 pm
Forum: Other Texts and History
Topic: First C. Roman Bust purchased at Goodwill, USD 34.99
Replies: 0
Views: 1939

First C. Roman Bust purchased at Goodwill, USD 34.99

Update: https://www.cnn.com/style/article/ancient-roman-bust-returns-germany-trnd/index.html Goodwill is a charity shop, mostly junk, cheap tat. This lost&found item once belonged to the German Emperor, left Nazi Germany as American war booty. Strange story! https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
by billd89
Fri May 06, 2022 7:21 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Anagogy: a 1st C. Jewish account of what that would involve?
Replies: 2
Views: 1828

Topic: Jewish Anagoge ; Anatole/Zemach - The Redeemer, Savior

Anagogy, c.25 AD and before 100 AD. 'Raising' thru Re-Making, a Conscious Process : On "the arising" (a variation of the 'leaving behind' through Spiritual Rebirth), see Philo's discussion in De Confusione Linguarum , 62-3: I have heard also an oracle from the lips of one of the Mosaic di...
by billd89
Wed May 04, 2022 7:50 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Egyptian Pelusium, on the map: an ancient 'Jewish' town?
Replies: 6
Views: 2411

Re: Egyptian Pelusium, on the map

WORKBOOK: The Battle of Pelusium (525 BCE) was famous as 'The Battle of the Cats': the Jews and their cats! (Note: ancient Pelusium was certainly verdant.) https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/1200x627/13914.jpg The Latin 'Pelusium' comes from the Greek Πηλούσιον (Pelousion), presumably translated f...
by billd89
Tue May 03, 2022 8:25 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Egyptian Pelusium, on the map: an ancient 'Jewish' town?
Replies: 6
Views: 2411

Egyptian Pelusium, on the map: an ancient 'Jewish' town?

Specifically: the settlement and its population, neighboring cities, its commerce and strategic significance, and as a Jewish town . Big picture. Pelusion = Pelusium. https://www.ancientportsantiques.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Nila3Deltas.png J. Rennell's reconstruction of Herodotus' outline, re...
by billd89
Mon May 02, 2022 4:00 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Hypothetic first narrative about Christ the savior
Replies: 27
Views: 4145

Re: Dating Your Dates

Here we are remembered that Marcion's docetism was opposed also by Basilides and Cerinthus, not only by mere catholics and/or Judaizers. Impossible. Basilides {c.135 AD: c.Age 70 or Dead} and Cerinthus: Dead at the time Marcion became controversial (c.135 AD) could not and certainly did not oppose ...