... George. Actually your opening remarks concerned the period of authorship of Genesis, thats the direction I was headed. I know the D.H. has been discussed...
George- Wow, nice questions. I will try to go in the order you asked, and I will try to answer as best as I can. Please note, I am not a credentialed scholar....
Jon, I have a very hard time believing Genesis was written prior to the Babylonian exile. Do we have any other example of a lineage of mankind in any Middle...
Richard, Forgive my awkwardness of expression. When I mentioned God vs. Satan, it was not in connection with gnostics. It was in connection with Christians...
... George. If we really looked I'm sure we could find several ancient texts that can be claimed to be 'firsts' for one reason or another. Claiming something...
Hey George- Thanks for reading my screed. Surely you can describe probably any religious purview as containing an idea of the good and the evil, an obvious...
George- It is important to note, and I keep forgetting to note, while Gnostics spoke of aeons, archons, the ogdoad, and the Plermoa as actualities, Kabbalists...
Jon, Yikes. Your approach is to set aside my methodology by removing the material my methodology uses? I'll show you what I mean. I am analyzing the books of...
... George. I had no intention of eliminating anything, if you are choosing to use Gen. to Jos. in order to study issues in Samuel thats o.k. I just was not...
Richard, Thanks for your response. You write: "Surely you can describe probably any religious purview as containing an idea of the good and the evil, an...
Jon, You comment about the Benjaminites as dwelling in the mountains around Jerusalem. But please note: Jer 6:1 "O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves...
Richard ... I think you'll find that they did this because they were adherent to the doctrine that states that no fact is provable. From this we get the ...
In Ezekiel 29:12 it speaks of the land of Egypt becoming a desolate waste in the midst of desolated lands and that its own cities would become a desolate waste...
Hi- Here is a typical example of the use of "so to speak", copied from http://www.uscj.org/From_the_Periphery_t6648.html An online versiuon of the journal of...
Hi, I am back, sorry, I was called away earlier, but I wanted to address your remarks concerning the unknowable God and agnosticism. Here is agnosticism in...
... desolate waste in the midst of desolated lands and that its own cities would become a desolate waste in the very midst of devastated cities for 40 years...
My apologies for those who have not seen much activity from me. I usually rely on a few different PC's to maintain total coverage for the group. But what do...
Richard ... Very eloquently put, Richard, but as I said, Agnosticism is the belief that God is unknowable (not the idea that anything which cannot be...
I won't say who are new member is, unless the member wants to. But this is the comment to the moderator from our newest member!: "I've been reading this board...
Hi Bergen and Thanks! Actually, in the works you cite it doesn't state that the desolation lasted fror 40 years. It could have been less - or even more if we...
... . . . . Hi Ian, Perhaps it may depend very much on how we are supposed to understand the original Hebrew text in Ezekiel as opposed to the way it...
Ian ... Two things which spring immediately to mind here-: Firstly, what do you mean by 'desolation'? Destruction of irrigation, or perhaps lack of government?...
Richard, You write: "....there is no question that Jewish and Christian thought regard the souls as an entity which can survive, in tact, after the death of...
Richard, You write: "Discussion of a topic in your forum does not necessarily show academic rigor." Of course. Agreed. I hope this isn't a way of saying "my...
George ... Your asking Richard that? The Vedas, for one thing, which Richard willl argue influenced Jewish and Christian thought via the Persians. You might...
To ABH Readers: There is a most "strange" connection between "Isaac/Isak" and "Jacob/ha-Qub". In Greek we see the following (Perseus.org): Isaki^s, Adverb from...
George ... It would demonstrate that the writer/s of these books were interested in the knowledge of their age (something I have argued in regard the creation...
