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When/where did Moses get the Urim and Thummim? Moses goes into great detail about how to construct the mercy seat and the breastpiece of judgment. The breastpiece of judgment is actually crafted with a secret pocket to hold the Urim and Thummim. Oddly, no details on how the make the Urim and Thummi...

What with all this talk about "maths"? Like outhouse's "scholarships", it just seems like odd ... um ... English (said by an American, who everyone knows does not speak the King's English). However, so many well known folks are using this term ("maths"), am I imagining ...

Thank you very much DCHindley, for this comment, written under duress, with anesthetic effects clearly evident!!! NOT!! Not sure what you were ranting about. You don't like "Jews", do you? Or is it know-it-alls like me, especially one who can out-know you? While I did not give any citatio...

My question is really simple: If Christianity had been functioning for two and a half centuries, at the time of emperor Diocletian, why don't we find some kind of building somewhere, to support that supposition? It is difficult to understand the rationale for persecuting a group so small that they ...

"radiocarbon dating of scrolls and linen fragments from the judean desert"
https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index ... /1642/1646

DCH

For comparison, Jason BeDuhn, The First New Testament (2013) pp 260ff It's a pretty complete analysis and footnoting system, and readily available in English. However, one thing I have learned while fanning between the footnotes of von Manen, Detering and Mahar, the citing the references is an art,...

FWIW: Someone (sorry to have forgotten whom) challenged my assertion that Latin Rhetoric was more complicated than Greek rhetoric. I was trying to make a point that Paul, a Greek speaking person from the Greek speaking provinces of Asia Minor and Syria, would be more likely to practice Greek style r...

Clive wrote:And looking at that table I do not see utter chaos but broad agreement!

I'll believe that when I see someone has downloaded the spreadsheet ...

DCH

Pretty complicated stuff ... ... One could develop his whole life's study around this and not be right. Do you agree we should keep a rhetorical lens on Paul while using moderation? By "with moderation," do you mean "without engaging in flame warfare"? I could get into that ... ...

To illustrate the utter chaos that exists among quite competent classicists when it comes to classifying any rhetorical methods/style Paul is thought to have presented in his works, here is a list of the analyses of several critics restricted to the book of Galatians: Hans Dieter Betz (1975, Galatia...