Greetings I am impressed with how little the epistle of James has in common with the writings of Paul. There is one passage that discusses the relationship of...
George wrote ... Yes George and that was during the reign of Louis IX (Le Hutin), late Medieval Period - not Renaissance. There is a lot of silliness which ...
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Of all the books in the BIble, would anyone happen to know how many were written by the actual people they were accredited to? For example, did John really...
Lars, My view of how Satan appeared on the scene is that the Persianized Jews had to do some "house cleaning" in the Hebrew pantheon. And the non-Exiled Jews,...
Michael, I suppose the interest in this comes from wanting to know about our "forefathers". There were lots of horse thieves in the Wild West of America....
David, You write: " An Apsu/Abzu was also found in two other variations. One a large receptacle which very much resembles a baptismal font, and another variant...
... found ... Hi George, Page 27 has a picture of an Apsu tank "from the extension built for Assyrian king Sennacherib to the temple of the god Assur in the...
LOL, could it possibly be that the Deuteronomist asked the same question over 2000 years ago and decided to put into hard copy all that he knew, or the group...
Hello Lars, and all, Lars wrote} since all were congregated (and diverged) from Babylon .. it explains the common gods and legends found in every culture. jb}...
This is a very valid point. When abstract thought and spiritual constructs first appeared in humans is hard to highlight. Certainly among Neandertals about...
Hello all, re., monotheism .. Lloyd asked} Jim, do you have a certain answer to share? jb} IMO there are several answers .. I think ethel jean is somewhat...
Hi Lars / David / George & everyone else whose commented... I feel I should point out that the popular figure of Baphomet has absolutely no connection to...
Hello Jack and all, Jack wrote} When humans first began to envision an existence after death and, of course, a place where one went after death to spend that...
references for ŠIMILAQŠA are in "December's Child, A Book of the Chumash Oral Narratives," Collected by J. P. Harrington, edited by Thomas C. Blackburn;...
David, ... David, I find it very difficult to think the absu tank and the baptismal tanks are not related. Thank you **VERY** much for your input! You write: ...
... wrote: ... John B: I am not convinced of the idea that the immanence of Yahweh and the transcendence of Yahweh have to be seen as separate developments. ...
or the like in the period relevant to this discussion. Let me quote J. Black's and A. Green's "Gods Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia": Dagan (Hebrew...
... for ... it. ... would ... by ... existed ... traditions is evangelical in intention, providing as it does empirical evidence of the resurrection. Then...
... Yes, in the symbolism of the Kassite, Babylonian and Assyrian periods. The funny thing is that this half a goat and half a fish is called Suhurmashu wich I...
Anders, Thank you for this quick response! I find this piece rather convincing. But I'm more inclined to see Dagan as the "corn god of the Philistine coast"...
Jim, You wrote: "The Maya {who were to become the first Egyptians (i.e., Narmer) and also the Jewish people and the Chumash in California} migrated across the...
Hello all, jb} Pharos's lighthouse {one of the seven wonders of the ancient world} is a little off topic .. but relevant none the less, when we think of...
Hello Lloyd and all, Lloyd asked} How did the Maya migrate across the Atlantic? jb} Interesting question. The craft {if I can call it that .. as they were...
George, I wanted to interject that another theory is that Yahweh, I think the oldest form, is derived from a linguistic form, not from the conflation of names...
Jim, Can you provide some particulars about the craft depicted in pictures, like their dimensions? How many people could one hold? Lloyd ... L.M. Barre'...
Hi Lloyd ... You have a valid point - apologies to all! Folks who want to continue the discussion about Baphomet should take it off list. Peter ... Outgoing...
