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- Sat May 04, 2024 11:02 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: How old is the oldest Dead Sea Scroll and how do we know?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 22932
Re: M. Langlois, The Outlier?
2019 paper: I conclude that this manuscript was probably copied around the second half of the third century BCE. Cross dates it “to the mid-third century CBE”,7 which is possible, but I would not go much earlier. One scholar's opinion is worth hearing out, but this sounds like very thin, speculativ...
- Sat May 04, 2024 7:28 am
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: "paradigms"
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3318
Re: "paradigms" & Heidegger
Of course, Martin Heidegger is arguably the most important philosopher of the 20th C. Right or wrong, appealing or not, his paradigm on Being is monumental. Where does that come from? David Farrell Krell, Intimations of Mortality: Time, Truth, and Finitude in Heidegger's Thinking of Being [1986], p....
- Sat May 04, 2024 4:57 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Revisiting Philo's Therapeutae and their Context/Timeline
- Replies: 76
- Views: 184036
What did a Therapeutide look like?
A Therapeut female divine, from a wealthy Alexandrian Jewish family (as Philo leads us to believe, DVC ): what would she look like? Oz interpretation: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-03/grafton-head-reconstruction-stuff-the-british-stole/103790776 https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/a66b...
- Sat May 04, 2024 3:18 am
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Sargon Hypothesis
- Replies: 0
- Views: 34
Sargon Hypothesis
This scientist's theory sounds clever! https://phys.org/news/2024-05-assyriologist-archaeological-mystery-bc.html Dr. Martin Worthington of Trinity's School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies has proposed a new solution ... He argues the Assyrian words for the five symbols (lion, eagle, ...
- Fri May 03, 2024 5:47 pm
- Forum: Other Texts and History
- Topic: Can we have an AI Translator Thread?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2842
Fascinating article on Claude 3: Hints of Setience?
https://www.consortiuminfo.org/artificial-intelligence/are-ais-self-aware-conversations-with-claude-3/ Conversing with Claude can seem entirely human, with Claude passing the Turing test on steroids. But the AI’s existence is very different from our own, making it challenging to understand what Clau...
- Fri May 03, 2024 10:11 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Secret Mark and Marcion via Chry
- Replies: 3
- Views: 127
Re: Dates
John 13:3 does NOT say Jesus 'took the form of a servant', CORRECT. That's Philippians 2:7. John 13:4: ἐγείρεται ἐκ τοῦ δείπνου καὶ τίθησιν τὰ ἱμάτια καὶ λαβὼν λέντιον διέζωσεν ἑαυτόν· λέντιον = Linen, apron. John 13:5: Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to w...
- Fri May 03, 2024 8:57 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Niels Lemche, "272 BCE – A Terminus a Quo"
- Replies: 3
- Views: 174
Re: Link
Sebald Beham [1545], Hercules Carrying the Columns of Gaza : https://1.api.artsmia.org/800/124314.jpg However, if readers are still not satisfied then we move on to the next section of the Book of Judges: The stories about the superhero Samson. Again, we are dealing with a mythological figure and do...
- Thu May 02, 2024 10:13 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Primal Evil (ἀρχή κακῶν), Inequality (ἀνισότης)?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 103
Primal Evil (ἀρχή κακῶν), Inequality (ἀνισότης)?
From Philo's DVC , 70. διακονοῦνται δὲ οὐχ ὑπ’ ἀνδραπόδων, ἡγούμενοι συνόλως τὴν θεραπόντων κτῆσιν εἶναι παρὰ φύσιν· ἡ μὲν γὰρ ἐλευθέρους ἅπαντας γεγέννηκεν, αἱ δέ τινων ἀδικίαι καὶ πλεονεξίαι ζηλωσάντων τὴν ἀρχέκακον ἀνισότητα καταζεύξασαι τὸ ἐπὶ τοῖς ἀσθενεστέροις κράτος τοῖς δυνατωτέροις ἀνῆψαν. ...
- Thu May 02, 2024 7:17 am
- Forum: General Religious Discussion
- Topic: Religious Intolerance & Science Denial: Study
- Replies: 0
- Views: 69
- Thu May 02, 2024 2:49 am
- Forum: General Religious Discussion
- Topic: 'Jews Killed Jesus,' a core belief?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 88
'Jews Killed Jesus,' a core belief?
I am not a Xian, and I do not believe this. But it is, in fact, a standard claim/belief of Christianity & Christians today, no? The two pillars of American Democracy are 1) Freedom of Speech and 2) Freedom of Assembly. Both support maximalist political and religious freedom in the USA. The react...