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Nakedness in antiquity wasn't the same as it is today. A gymnasium was quite literally a naked place. There were a lot of naked with nakeds. In Maximus naked with naked means naked (dead) bodies. In that way there is a parallel. The youth is naked because in part he was dead. There are many Pauline...

If the Romans can perceive their former Caesars to be god(s), why can't a group of Jews likewise come to perceive their fallen who aspired to the title of King of the Jews to similarly be god(s)? And thereby transform them from human to god, and write of them accordingly.

Going out on a limb here, but perhaps they actually saw Paul.

For I bear on my body the marks of Jesus. Gal. 6:17

In my opinion Steven Avery has every right to openly and actively participate on this forum. I may not agree with all he says, but that goes for the rest also. I would much rather invite Steve to be a guest at my dinner table than those bashing him.

Charles Wilson wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 09, 2020 5:03 pm

More later, if there is any interest.

CW

I'm struggling to follow. Please continue.

I prefer this one, since you get multiple definitions, root words and the ability to switch on the fly, and click on individual words to look up occurrences and Greek/Hebrew equivalents. What would be a helpful addition is Latin Vulgate, as many church father writings are in Latin, and seeing the r...

Is the online interlinear Bible found at the "Bible Hub" a respectable yet free online Koine to English translation tool?

https://biblehub.com/interlinear/

I'd sure like to have a chance to read the 'Book of Elchasai' (Book of Elxai) some day. Do you think that this book and others like it that were banned may yet exist as copies hidden within the Vatican library?

Larry, If you do not have $140 for the very last hardcopy still on hand at Amazon, or $45 for an E-reader (not a PDF) version, there is a long and detailed discussion of Christian censorship of the Talmud, and censorship in antiquity, in Did Jesus Live 100 BC? (G R S Mead, 1903). He may have been a...

I was trying to understand why we don't have so many of the referenced non-canonical texts available to be read. I presumed this might be to their ordered destruction. Apparently this is not likely to be the main reason, and therefore my presumption was flawed.