Ausra: This is speculation on my part, but Belkis may be a corruption of Baal Qos. Qos was the chief god of the Edomites. The name Belkis was adopted into...
During the European Middle Ages, the Black Plague took maybe a third to a half of the population. The upheaval caused by the deaths caused certain economic...
... <historynow2002@y...> wrote: But the priests ARE treated differently. The text even states this TWICE: Gen 47:22 and 47:26, If you focus your economic...
... Walter M. has written an EXCELLENT article about the possible Egyptian origins of the "calf cult": http://www.bibleorigins.net/GoldenCalfHathorReliefs.html...
George, David Steinberg uses the same kind of thinking in looking at Deut. 33. where based on a simple transposition of letters he winds up with a text reading...
I have recently updated my Pi-ha-hiroth of the Exodus article on various site proposals. If interested cf. the following url http://tinyurl.com/dw3d6 Regards,...
Ausra Holly wrote, ... I thought someone would link the name to Baal, so I kept quiet. I've not much to add, except that there is mentioned in the OT a king of...
Thanks, Holly, your information is very interesting. Baal Qos is very tempting, but maybo noteworthy also the notice of aj that Balkis could be the feminine...
Ausra: Belqis is spelled with qaf, not kaf. In Arabic, Belqis is spelled "blqys." Your lord (meaning male spouse) is spelled baalk (with a kaf) so the "q"...
... with ... Dear AJ, I'm not an authority on pottery, I would imagine you could look this subject on the internet, try the google search engine. Regards,...
... third to a half of the population. The upheaval caused by the deaths caused certain economic conditions to follow. A remnant group inherited the lands of...
Any possibility that "calf" may mean "looks like a calf." That is, calf horns may look like a cresent moon phase, the horns likened to a calf's horns? Or even...
George, are you linking the words "Essene" to "Asherah"? Sincerely, Aris M. Hobeth George <historynow2002@...> wrote: Astro, I like the creativeness of...
Below is a marvelous discussion about Nergal and Mithra. In other articles, it should be noted with due discipline, that the Roman version of Mithra is...
Holly ... Could be a problem, if one so wished ... ... And the name of the chief deity of Babylon, Bel, was also spelled BL (a contraction of BAaL, it also...
George. Here are some pictures to add another dimension to your discussion below regarding Persian-Roman presentations of Nergal: (regarding Syria in the...
AJ: According to the Quran, Solomon did not seek to destroy Saba but to convert her, which he succeeded in doing by convincing her that she could see through...
Marc, Excellent jpg! For those who struggle with the URL being broken up, I have loaded the image into the PHOTOS section of the list. Of course, it is the...
Holly, does the Quran link Solomon's Sheba (the younger version) with David's BathSheba, (the older version)? Two different women, or one long-lived (powerful...
Anne Rice, famed for her Vampire fiction, has had some publicity recently. Her new fictional novel about Jesus tells of his life from his point of view up till...
Holly ... I think I've found what I was thinking of-: http://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/bkt/bkt11.htm "[..] The last king of Saba, named Sharahbil, was a monster...
Aris ... What I find most intriguing is that atheists often feel that they must accept or reject God, when it is a God of their own times (Yahweh, or Allah,...
In a prior post, I quoted sources that said (reasonably so), that Lachish dominated the southern area of Judah right up until the Assyrian destruction. Lachish...
AJ: The story from which you quote is pure fantasy. Too bad the short story writer's name was not mentioned. It sounds like a tale from "A thousand and one ...
AJ: The story from which you quote is pure fantasy. Too bad the short story writer's name was not mentioned. It sounds like a tale from "A thousand and one ...
Holly ... And the Quran, or the Bible, isn't? ... The source is Arabic, Holly, Arabic this-and-that-: http://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/bkt/bkt00.htm "THE BIBLE,...
George, have I written too much about the Egyptian version of the golden calf episode? (That Hathor, the cow goddess, was sent by Ra disguised as Sekhmet the...
Aris, You write: "The [ Destroyer of the Passover] scenario strongly suggests a celestial destructive event." While I would say that it is a possibility, my...
