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It turns out that the hallucinogens involved were of a variety called Hyoscyamus. Per Wikipedia it is what is known as the henbanes. These are a "small genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, Solanaceae. It comprises 11 species, all of which are toxic. It, along with other genera in...

http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2015/11/7000-pre-christian-cult-items-found-in.html?utm_content=buffer1defa&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer&m=1#.VlkMRI08KrU There is no fathoming of the depth of SA's mind. Another unusual aspect described in ...

[Strong is very good for concordance. You don't how to use the excellent facility of Strong Your translation says a man called Risen Sun who' resurrected'? Isky, There is this great prophetic statement: There is a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun and it's been the ruin of many a poor b...

G, While many electronic bible resources treat this "anatole" as a proper name, it is factually not a proper name (no one else, as far as I know, used that word as a proper name, or even as an appellation). It simply means "east", or more specifically the part of the horizon from...

Why isn't esi = is Vot Iss ?!? <says mamma Katzenjammer before spanking Hans und Fritz> Because b'esi is not "is". Or "is" it? The best I can figure it is one of the Ge'ez words for "a man", but not generally "a man among men" or "mankind", which wo...

DCHindley wrote:Mr David Charles Hindley,

Well, I know I'm in trouble when someone invokes my middle name! Think Charles Taze Russell, or Barak Hussein O'Bama.

DCH

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Mr David Charles Hindley, What is up with you, Dood!* Don't you know that it has already been proposed that the Parables was composed in Aramaic? Idiot! R. H. Charles, Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament (APOT), vol 2 (Pseudepigrapha), pp 174-176: [174] But 'the most convincing evide...

The unique apologetical argument that Philo has in order to prove that the future messiah named ἀνατολή is (symbol of) his archangelic Logos was the fact that the Eden is described as κατὰ ἀνατολάς, therefore being moved to use ἀνατολή as a geographical PLACE. Evidently he was moved to appeal to th...

arnoldo wrote:Hisgalus 18:23

So,

You are a "Messianic Jew" now?

DCH

Hmmm, Doesn't this sort of speculation come up every decade or so? So much as even suggesting it was grounds for being banned from many academic user groups in the 90s. Besides Allegro's famous Sacred Mushroom and the Cross (1970, and FWIW, I own a copy with the original plastic dust cover with colo...