Michael Others on the list are better equipped to comment on the 'Hammurabi to Amraphel shift' (you probably already known that -el was a common Northwest...
Jon "I'm not sure who 'they' were but following the generations of Noah the biblical narrative then informs us: "'And it came to pass, as they journeyed from...
George "[1] Let's assume we are not looking for a LITERAL garden established by god. "This leaves us with a few more options: "[2] That there was a natural...
Djehuti "Genesis 18:8 "He took curds and milk and the calf that had been prepared and set these before them; and he waited on them under the tree as they ate."...
Regarding the location of Eden, this is a very interesting "cut" on the issue. The maps that go with the article are very interesting too. George, could I...
Holly "The meat is actually cooked in yogurt and it tastes good." You didn't follow the recipe, Holly. Do you know how yoghurt is made? The milk is heated, ...
Marc, Great webpage! Great collection of photos not generally seen on the internet... they've been "obscure" points of evidence and reference for too long. I...
AJ, Okay... you got me there. Your description below is a valid "what if". Now you have to ask yourself ... what are the relative probabilities of the three...
AJ, We are losing our bearings in this discussion. 1) The Old Testament does NOT prohibit cooking meat in milk. 2) It prohibits cooking a kid in the milk of...
John, If you haven't already sent the document to me, please do. I'm happy to have it on file. Some time in the distant future we will have to do some ...
AJ, I don't understand the relevance of removing micro-organisms from milk through heating. How does this affect Holly's point about meat-prepared-with yogurt...
Greetings Well how interesting - the Menti we so often hear of Sopdu trampling were not actually trampled by Sopdu per se, but rather Bes-Sopdu. Schumacher...
Is there any room for writers, scribes, secretaries, official historians, official editors, artistic poets, symbologists being hired by Moses? I have no doubt...
... Thanks A.J. I did mention earlier that we are first introduced to the 'mountains of Ararat' by the Priestly source - which I accept as a later addition. ...
... poor outcast peasants. He was a great civilized, educated, linguist, general who, like a symphony writer and composer, also conducted the group he...
... I take it, then, that you DO think the four apostles wrote the NT gospels? This is not the most popular position to take amongst historians using...
Holly asked if cheese was ever mentioned so I provided the first verse I could find in reference to it (i.e. 'curds'). The question had nothing to do with a...
Moses certainly commanded "arms." He was a general, and a member of the Egyptian royal family. When he stretched forth his arm, he (like a football coach)...
Only two of the evangelists may have been members of the original twelve apostles, Matthew and John. John is more problematic. The other NT letter writers, may...
Bergen, You write: "... there is an author who has sold 20 million copies of a detective novel based on a development of the simple report that Jesus had an...
Aris wrote ... Are you here arguing that Moses wrote the books of the Penteteuch Aris. If so, not only was Moses clever enough to write, he could even write...
George wrote ... Regarding the Apostolic "authorship" of the Gospels, there is nothing within the Gospels called Matthew, Mark, Luke or John that enables us to...
John, I think you make some good points. I have no doubt that the scriptures mostly date from the Persian and Ptolemic periods (and probably continued to be...
Aris wrote ... Not necessarily, Aris. There seems to have been a fairly consistent tradition to "blacken" the name of Mary Magdalene - first by making her a...
Gabriel, You wrote ... Not really, Gabriel. The "Hittites" mentioned in the Bible, seem to have been rather the "Syrians" mentioned in Assyrian sources as ...
... I understand that. I was, however, under the impression that you were talking about the present, as well as the past, since you mentioned your mother in...
Gabriel and John, Dang it, John! I wanted to write this post! :-) But your post is better worded than what I had in mind. I especially appreciated this last ...
... have ... The caveat is, for me at least, that we *know* in the last millenium BCE, following the demise of the traditional Hittite Empire there was a...
