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One should note that the LXX is sometimes inconsistent in how it renders the Hebrew names of God e.g. occasionally rendering YHWH in the MT by theos. It is unclear if the Hebrew text used for the LXX differed from the MT in its use of divine names. Andrew Criddle Agreed, and I think this is where m...

From my previous post, The other three lines are less clear. In line 4 we find ]ν̣εμπαση[ and the DJD editors suggested that this may have the adverb ἔμπᾱς (likewise, anyway), but this seems unlikely since this word is more common in Epic poetry and Ionic Greek as opposed to Koine (apparently not a...

Obviously, the "wilderness of Paran" which Deuteronomy 8:15 refers to as "that great and terrible wilderness, wherein there were fiery serpents and scorpions, and no water" is the same as the wilderness of Sinai. If, as my previous posts have established, Mt. Sinai is to be taken...

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So there is an obscure Greek manuscript at Qumran preserved only in small fragments which as far as I know has not been identified with any known text. This text, known as 4Q126, is notable for attesting the word κύριος and if the text is biblical, then it may represent the earliest known substituti...

Another borrowed myth is that of David and Goliath (compare to the 2 other "giants" in the Bible, Og and Sihon (Sion?)). It's perhaps not a coincidence that there are three known "giant" individuals and all come from the Northern perspective and traditions, as there are three dis...

Being a chiasm may only mean that a single author created that structure. That author could easily have used material from more than one source, as the author of the Noah's-Flood story apparently did. The Noah chiasm is interesting but I'm not sure it means a whole lot. Chiasmus seems to be more of...

At some point scholars will have to realize that saying "The Bible is Jewish fiction" is like saying "A myth is a myth". It's fruitless and only makes attempts at finding historical clues in the text more difficult. In recent times there has been a worrying amount of tension betw...

Hermon has three summits, situated like the angles of a triangle that are about a quarter of a mile from each other. The mountain is shared by the countries of Lebanon, Syria, and Israel. Mount Hermon has seasonal winter and spring snow falls, which cover all three of its peaks for most of the year...

FACT 1: who escapes the Archons is the Son of Father Jesus doesn't escape the archons in the Marcionite/Gnostic theologies. He is killed by them. FACT 2: who escapes Pilate is the Son of Father Even in Marcion's Gospel, Pilate delivers Jesus to death. Paul even says that he was delivered up to the ...