Abby ... It's all pretty much of a muchness, Abby: one English translation of a Hebrew word being held up against an English translation of a Greek word. At...
Aris ... Firstly, I think that the drowning of Pharaoh's army is purely symbolic, or if it was based upon some real historical event then it happened in no...
Abby You may be interested to learn that, when Paul was first brought before Antonius Felix, governor of Caesarea, the charge laid against him was heard in...
Jon ... "Contemporary Near Eastern documents consist of the Mari tablets, texts from Ugarit and Egypt. Many of these documents mention people and places which...
Holly ... The bread represents the body of whichever particular god of grain these people worshipped (the one born in Bethlehem, a town whose name means 'house...
Bergen ... A few questions, Bergen-: 1. To which time did St Augustine date Moses? 2. Why would he assume that floods in Greece necessarily equate to floods in...
Greetings We all pretty much agree that the wine and blood motif found in the last supper is not of Jewish origin, that it's derived from the mystery schools...
AJ The water to wine episode symbolizes the ascendancy of the crucifixion cult over the baptisimal cults as represented by the Essenes and John the Baptist....
Holly wrote to Bergen: See if you can get a copy of the Hadiths. Sahih Muslim and Sahih Bukhari are on line. If you read these Hadiths, you will find that they...
I know a woman from Nazareth (in Palestine), I can ask her what people from Nazareth are called today, if you'd like. I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just...
Jon, It's been a long time since you and I have had a chance to discuss anything. Let's see what we can do. You write: "I was interested in how a 3rd century...
Bergen: The point of the Israeliat hadiths was to attribute them to Muhammad and not to their actual sources (something like what the authors of the gospels...
Abby and All: Just to confuse this conversation a bit more, one of the Arabic words for Christian is Nisara which comes from the root nsr. Nsr means to help,...
... Perhaps you can picture a sad seated figure of embarrassment, hanging his head in shame...get the picture? (mea culpa). I have that book, and yes it does...
Abby ... You're lost in the English language, Abby: you need to look at the Greek transcripts. ... The authorship of the epistles to Timothy is under some...
Holly ... Even the Jews of Israel are reputed to have referred to the early Christians in their midsts as Nazoreans. The only question is whether this was an...
... George. I understand what you are saying but I suspect in this particular case the Anatolian peoples (Hittites) resident in lower Canaan/Palestine region...
Hi Jon ... That's presupposing that the 'treasure city of Ramses' is Piramesse, which I'm not convinced of. It could equally be that construction which we...
... AJ I thought the term 'treasure-city' had gone out of fashion, I think you are referring to the expression 're-misk'not, - "store-cities"? If this is what...
Hi Jon ... Which temple was built by Nectanebis II, if I'm not mistaken, which fits more easily into my current working scenario (26th dynasty) than any of the...
nisara means "help to victory." At least, that's according to my arabic speaking husband. So the root is help, but the connotation involves a lot more than...
THat's my point. You are saying that an english word is not clear about whether we're talking about someone from a town, or someone who's taken a vow. I'll...
Jon, You write: "I understand what you are saying but I suspect in this particular case the Anatolian peoples (Hittites) resident in lower Canaan /Palestine...
Abby: Nisara spelled with a seen means victory. Nisara spelled with a sad means helper, supporter. It is the Nisara spelled with a sad which means both...
... AJ But it isn't Rameses either is it?, it is spelled Raamses, and in Ex. 1:11 where it appears with Pi-Thom, this is the only occurrence of this variation...
Jon ... They're both spelt the same in Hebrew, rjm$$, but I see your point, and it's an interesting point: and it certainly dates the Exodus to a specific...
