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by billd89
Wed Mar 13, 2024 2:37 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Sabar's New Morton Smith Article
Replies: 113
Views: 1938

Re: Sabar's New Morton Smith Article

Drivel.

I don't fault M.Smith for being a closeted homosexual. I fault M.Smith for being a psychopathic fraud. His belabored, grandiose ploy might yet baffle simple minds, but it doesn't baffle me.
by billd89
Tue Mar 12, 2024 6:06 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Sabar's New Morton Smith Article
Replies: 113
Views: 1938

Re: Sabar's Article is about You?

But this isn't about you, is it? It's about M.Smith quite deliberately queering Jesus. And Why: 'I Lie Because I Can.' Sure: maybe an historical Jesus lived AND he was oriented towards same-sex relationships. Who knows! But if --IF-- Smith CREATED this document/narrative, don't you agree he must hav...
by billd89
Tue Mar 12, 2024 2:29 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Sabar's New Morton Smith Article
Replies: 113
Views: 1938

Freddie Mercury never Came Out as a Gay Man, Either

So everything Secret Alias has written testifying to Morton Smith being a slandered heterosexual is now proven rubbish? Oh dear. Color me surprised. And what a hill to die on ... Whether or not Smith was gay (or bisexual) I do not care; whether a scholar's self-loathing, or a 'hidden self' warped hi...
by billd89
Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:40 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Philo's Fragments
Replies: 3
Views: 851

Re: Philo's Hell

On the Question of Annihilation: Ken M. Penner's "Philo's Eschatology, Personal and Cosmic", p.17 : If punishment is not something Philo expected for the impious after death, what did he expect instead? In the discussion above on the immortality of the soul, the question was raised, what i...
by billd89
Sun Mar 10, 2024 9:06 am
Forum: Classical Texts and History
Topic: Pillars of Hercules
Replies: 20
Views: 1396

Re: Resheph-Seth

It would appear that The "Mighty One with Seven Heads" (Šlyṭ D.šbʿt Rašm) is Leviathan . But also note: here is "Resheph assimilated with Seth as a winged figure spearing Apophis snake, Nineteenth-Twentieth Dynasties {c.1100 BC}, Royal Art and History Museums, Brussels After: Grande,...
by billd89
Sun Mar 10, 2024 3:12 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Canaanite 'Temple of the Rising Sun' Discovered near Jerusalem
Replies: 0
Views: 106

Canaanite 'Temple of the Rising Sun' Discovered near Jerusalem

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2024-03-10/ty-article/archaeologists-discover-canaanite-temple-of-the-rising-sun-in-central-israel/0000018e-26fe-d7d3-abce-66ffa0260000 Inside the halls of the {c.1150 BC} temple the archaeologists found many cultic objects that blended Egyptian and Canaanite cult...
by billd89
Sun Mar 10, 2024 2:57 am
Forum: Classical Texts and History
Topic: Rome 4 AD in 3D
Replies: 4
Views: 1539

Re: Temple of Venus & Roma in 3D

by billd89
Sat Mar 09, 2024 6:28 pm
Forum: Classical Texts and History
Topic: Pillars of Hercules
Replies: 20
Views: 1396

Re: Herakles

Don't you imagine the Greeks ripped off almost everything, the Interpretatio Graeca as bald cultural fronting ?

The Phoencian was almost certainly (definitely) older.
by billd89
Fri Mar 08, 2024 10:44 am
Forum: Classical Texts and History
Topic: Spackling over the Crumbly Bits
Replies: 6
Views: 796

Re: Athena Parthenos of NashVegas

Adequate summary for mainstream audience:
https://www.thecollector.com/athena-parthenos-statue/
by billd89
Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:57 pm
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Revisiting Philo's Therapeutae and their Context/Timeline
Replies: 72
Views: 143413

Re: Revisiting Philo's Therapeutae, and Scholem

Furthermore -- given what he has said above, connecting the "old Jewish Magicians of the Papyri" -- isn't Scholem suggesting an older Judeo-Hellenistic tradition, of 'Jewish circles having extremely close contact with' Hermeticism? (In another post , I have already addressed the fact that ...