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"The new inscription proves that Jerusalem was not only a fortified city but also a very important cultural and cultic center, where excellent scribes and sophisticated magicians managed to write this important monumental inscription, as well as hold voodoo ceremonies," Galil said. {Gersh...

It is worth speculating that a remarkable catastrophe, such as the destruction of Tall el-Hammam by a cosmic object, may have generated an oral tradition that, after being passed down through many generations, became the source of the written story of biblical Sodom in Genesis. The description in G...

The Exodus Myth was useful for bolstering an Alexandrian-oriented satrap in Jerusalem. Win-Win: Anti-Egyptian rhetoric wasn't anti-Greek; for Alexandrians, pro-Jewish rhetoric would entice any radicals/internal opponents to Judea. I'm unaware that political migration bid had many takers, c.272 BC. W...

c.1983, as a teen I went on an archaeological dig in Carthage, excavating a "Paleo-Christian basilica." Our finds were decidedly unimpressive. I would say DULL. One evening, walking home from the lacklustre site, the local sewer guys in a trench on Rue Eshmoun off R. Tite Live had dug up a...

... Yesse = Latin Iesse; ⲓⲉⲥⲥⲉⲩⲥ ; Ιεσσαι/ϊσεσσαι, Ἰεσσαιος, ϊσεσσεδεκεύς We can readily see how this ‘Yesseus-Sacrifice-of-the-Righteous Jessaeans’ might be all promises of the Messiah: a Therapeut (Servant of God), God’s Agent (intermediary, to men), Judge, Redeemer, a Righteous Savior with a Dea...

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Obviously, this is the Classical Text Forum (on a RELIGIOUS website), and Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions was about paradigm shifts in modern science long after Antiquity. We are explicitly backwards looking. So we can take this thread back to Alchemy's origins, or rather Jung on Zosimos ...

Now uploaded to Internet Archive, in the original German: Link This very slim monograph on the Hermetic cult was, I think, significant to the Edelsteins' working thesis that the (Judaic) Therapeutae wrote or assimilated certain books of the Corpus Hermetica . This foundation is extraordinary, quite ...

Not Renaissance, 200 years later. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1999-0626-16 The British Museum says that's white chalk. What's the occasion for and to this pic? I'm entirely unfamiliar with it of course "The Hidden God of the Gnostics before Jesus" is the Agnostos Theo...

If you're trying to trigger my obsessive-compulsive research inclination, mlinssen, you will fail ;) I accept there are LOTS of things I don't understand: reverse letters on Roman incriptions and Renaissance prints are excellent examples. Was it superstition, some guild signifier, the artist's quirk...