Marc You wrote, ... Might these be equated with the Elamite dietess Lagamaru? http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=406&letter=C "... the name...
Louis ... Bethel and Ai are connected via a single mountain, so yes, no twin mountain there. The sexual imagery of portraying mountains as breasts is obvious,...
was looking over my notes on eisenman's 'james the brother of jesus' and realized i had some questions about the text 1/ what kind of points do we give...
Julie, I try to remember to greet new members who join in the posting. We have lots of lurkers, but we have one of the largest audiences of "lurkers/readers"...
... that paul//saul was a member of the herod family ? ... the works of josephus were - - at one time - - included as part of holy writ in bibles used by greek...
Hi Folks I have just been reading through the resources located at http://www.religiousstudies.uncc.edu/JDTABOR/indexb.html I find them excellent and of high...
Julie, I believe asked ... Some have suggested that Paul's Roman citizenship came as a r esult of his family connections to the Herodians, who were Idumaean...
Bergen You wrote ... Paul refers to himself as having kinsmen among the Herodians. Paul's Herodian background, a connection that Paul himself makes in his ...
The only place I find the name "Herodian" mentioned by Paulos is in Romans 16:11 where he claims kinship to an individual named Herodian, not a family. Are we...
Bergen, I'm glad you brought up the fact that there are alternate versions of Josephus. I believe one of them is called the Slavonic Text. But one cannot...
Bergen wrote ... But Paul himself states he was travelling through Asia Minor with a kinsman who was Herodian. This would imply that Paul too was Herodian by...
AJ You write ... Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I thought that you (previously) connected the concept of a "twin mountain", [maybe a year ago - if I remember...
John, Excellent point about Paul's own admission of his Herodian kinsmen. And the lengthy article below provides even more interesting discussions. Relevant...
As you can see from the upthread, the long article was truncated because it was too long. So here's the rest of the article. However, this last small fragment...
... a kinsman who was Herodian. This would imply that Paul too was Herodian by either blood or marriage, and would explain his Roman citizenship, quite rare...
Bergen, The actual text is: Rom 16:11 Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet them that be of the [household] of Narcissus, which are in the Lord. It is assumed that...
... That's a pretty big assumption. There's a theater in Athens built c. 161 CE called the "Herodion" derived from a Roman named "Herodes Atticus". There is...
Dhehuti, You make a good point about the other examples of Herod-ion. However, I do reject your dismissal of being related as an "in-law" rather than by blood....
Louis ... I have in the past connected the mountain between Bethel and Ai to the underworld, something which it shares with the twin mountains Targhizizi and...
Greetings ... Assumed by whom? The name in question, Herodion, is spelled in ancient Greek hrodion. Perhaps someone with a little knowledge of the language...
George wrote to Bergen ... Paul's traveling companions and closest collaborators after his break with the Jewish apostles are usually Judeo-Greeks like Timothy...
... I don't know what you're referring to here. I never made any mention of a relationship based on in-laws. If the mother of Herodion was the sister of one...
AJ You write ... Very astute observation. You must have a built-in "bible decoder" to have caught that one. What are your thoughts as to the motivation or...
John ... Lucius of Cyrene was part of this 'Herodian mix'? How? I wonder if the fact that Simon too was a Cyrenian had anything to do with his being chosen to...
Louis ... I tend to think that the books of Samuel (much of the OT, in fact) were compiled at a much later date than the time period they are describing. As...
aj you write ... I agree - that the ugaritic myth of the gracious gods is a problematic text and the full significance of who and what the gracious gods are,...
