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- Sat Nov 26, 2022 8:06 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Simon Magus = Marcion: Who has suggested this?
- Replies: 39
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Re: Simon Magus = Marcion: Who has suggested this?
Are you referring to the whole Kito war being an expression of neo-Jamesianism or just the Eastern Front of it ? The Eastern Front would be Israelites interpreting Osroes - whom I believe could possibly be the son of Izates - as Caliph. However, they would be following that vague Eastern tradition ...
- Wed Oct 26, 2022 5:49 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: A More Viable Myth for Jewish Origins
- Replies: 3
- Views: 739
Re: A More Viable Myth for Jewish Origins
I don't see "Kingdom of God" as seminal in either earliest Samaritan or Jewish thought. The 'Davidic messiah' is a degeneration of the original (Samaritan) understanding of a returning Moses and Moses is not a king. Where do you derive the importance of this terminology? I would argue the...
- Wed Oct 26, 2022 5:42 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Simon Magus = Marcion: Who has suggested this?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3856
Re: Simon Magus = Marcion: Who has suggested this?
. . . I have heard brilliant arguments placing the generation of the Pauline literature around Cyprus, among the last Herodians, shortly after the Kitos War. In my own narrative, it would be that this Pauline literature is a reaction to the Kitos War, which I interpret as a forgotten last gasp of t...
- Thu Oct 13, 2022 9:32 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Simon Magus = Marcion: Who has suggested this?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3856
Re: Simon Magus = Marcion: Who has suggested this?
Sorry, it's not the answer you're seeking, but I will add my narrative's contribution to the question. I have identified Simon Magus as a high priest Simon of the Boethus family, probably Cantheras (Simon II) if we want to call this person the Samaritan Prophet of Josephus. Otherwise Simon Boethus t...
- Thu Oct 06, 2022 7:26 pm
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Shahba, Syria As Eden - Flaming Swords - Imhotep
- Replies: 1
- Views: 710
Re: Shahba, Syria As Eden - Flaming Swords - Imhotep
For what it's worth, I assume the meteor strike in 4000 BC ended a lost civilization. Maybe. Leading to a Noahide Vulcan in a then active volcano in Kurdistan, and this Trachonitian colony.
- Thu Oct 06, 2022 7:21 pm
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Shahba, Syria As Eden - Flaming Swords - Imhotep
- Replies: 1
- Views: 710
Shahba, Syria As Eden - Flaming Swords - Imhotep
Around 2700 BC, two volcanic domes emerged near Shahba, Syria. They poured flood lava over many miles, trapping some fertile areas within the fire. This lava flow later created an inhospitable land full of many caves and crags, called Trachonitis. Relevant to Judean-Babylonian relations in Biblical ...
- Thu Sep 22, 2022 10:23 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Indo-European Origins For The Crucified God
- Replies: 2
- Views: 502
Indo-European Origins For The Crucified God
Naively, Jesus has been linked to Mithras. There are strong parallels of course, and many see Sol Invictus as a Semitic/Syrian bridge between the Taurid/Indo-European Mithras and the Jewish Christ. In parallels, that is. However, what if there was a direct Indo-European source for the novel elements...
- Thu Sep 22, 2022 10:00 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Ignatius derived Pilate from Simon Magus and connected him with Jesus
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2840
Re: Ignatius derived Pilate from Simon Magus and connected him with Jesus
As reaction, Ignatius would have said the exact contrary: Jesus was real, i.e. he wasn't Simon, and Jesus was crucified really by Pilate, so taking Pilate from the Samaritan source represented by the his opponents. The reader has to persuade himself/herself that my case is virtually stronger once w...
- Thu Sep 22, 2022 9:39 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: A More Viable Myth for Jewish Origins
- Replies: 3
- Views: 739
Re: A More Viable Myth for Jewish Origins
A strong element of Gmirkin's thesis is that the Jewish religion is essentially the best and most deliberate instance of Plato's theory of theocracy. This was designed to get a wide diaspora to pour money and arms toward a polis. Abraham is a figure of Edessa, and an artifact of the last war of the ...
- Sun Sep 11, 2022 2:47 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Qumran: Fortress Of Helena
- Replies: 0
- Views: 414
Qumran: Fortress Of Helena
This isn't as much a hypothesis as it is a topic or question. I have advanced my theory of a political crisis during Herod Agrippa's reign. Roughly speaking, Agrippa's ego is bruised at a perceived slight by Sampsiceramus and Rome (the nature of which being a kind of reservation about his status). T...