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- Thu Mar 14, 2024 5:19 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: ancient Judaean horoscope text (?)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1078
Re: ancient Judaean horoscope text (?)
Yes. Not newly "announced this week." My ears perked up when they described writing from left to right rather than the other way around, considering the forgeries brought up recently where the Siloam inscription was written out left to right. IIRC, 4Q186 used a couple of cypher techniques...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 1:20 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: ancient Judaean horoscope text (?)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1078
Re: ancient Judaean horoscope text (?)
Woefully insufficiently informative report--e.g. found where and when?--but fwiw: https://www.israelhayom.com/2024/03/14/mysterious-ancient-horoscope-scroll-unveiled-in-judaean-desert/ To pull an F M Cross 'Excuse me mr. presenter ... but isn't that the text from the Siloam inscription?' moment (in...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 3:25 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Was Josephus a Turncoat?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2549
Re: Was Josephus a Turncoat?
If the question is did the historical Josephus "turn" on the Jewish revolutionary movement he was a part of during the Jewish War of 66 - 70 CE? Of course. No question. Seems that "Of course" should be followed by an "aarrgghh!" My observation that "most governmen...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 3:20 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Was Josephus a Turncoat?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2549
Re: Was Josephus a Turncoat?
If the question is did the historical Josephus "turn" on the Jewish revolutionary movement he was a part of during the Jewish War of 66 - 70 CE? Of course. No question. Seems that "Of course" should be followed by an "aarrgghh!" My observation that "most governmen...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:27 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Was Josephus a Turncoat?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2549
Re: Was Josephus a Turncoat?
It is possible for individuals to evolve their thinking over time as they encounter and at least at times overcome challenges to their notions of how "things worked." So, we have a priestly Judean aristocrat who, like most folks within a state government, does their duty when called upon. ...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 11:58 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The "Christianos Graffito" discovered in Pompeii (1862)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1171
Re: The "Christianos Graffito" discovered in Pompeii (1862)
For those who pay attention to those pesky details, here is a updated version of something I created in pre-Unicode days (original used one of the two ASCII transliteration schemes from the 1990s), updated to Unicode (UTF-8). I titled this revision ΧΡΊΩ (Chriō), ΧΡΙΣΤὸΣ (Chrístos), ΧΡῖΣΜΑ (Chrîsma) ...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 1:36 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio
- Replies: 120
- Views: 8492
Re: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio
But mh, while English monarchs might celebrate the 100th anniversary of something as a "jubilee year" is kind of new. I am not aware of any time division system in use then (in Judea), that used any other system than 7 year blocks of years or multiples (7x7=49 for sabbatical years, sometim...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 7:22 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: κολοβοδάκτυλος
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1177
Re: κολοβοδάκτυλος
I can't believe that no one has suggested this before. κολοβοδάκτυλος means "truncated-length" (or "short-measured") κολοβός = cut δάκτυλος = measure The measures of Herodotus are almost all drawn either from portions of the human body , or from bodily actions easily performable...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:18 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The "Christianos Graffito" discovered in Pompeii (1862)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1171
Re: The "Christianos Graffito" discovered in Pompeii (1862)
https://earlywritings.com/forum/download/file.php?id=2461 Reminds me a bit of these signs painted on a wall in Pompeii: Image of a gladiatorial scene: https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/spectaclesintheromanworldsourcebook/wp-content/uploads/sites/848/2019/10/Ch-7-Pompeii-Graffiti.jpg Image of another g...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 3:55 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The "Christianos Graffito" discovered in Pompeii (1862)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1171
Re: The "Christianos Graffito" discovered in Pompeii (1862)
Reminds me a bit of this sign painted on a wall in Pompeii: Image of a gladiatorial scene: https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/spectaclesintheromanworldsourcebook/wp-content/uploads/sites/848/2019/10/Ch-7-Pompeii-Graffiti.jpg Image of another gladiator scene: https://preview.redd.it/x3ku5jqp1sn41.jpg?wid...