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by stephan happy huller
Wed Apr 02, 2014 4:09 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The Strategy for Mythicists Going Forward
Replies: 25
Views: 32428

Re: The Strategy for Mythicists Going Forward

Nah, Justin Martyr's Dialogue was clearly reworked in the late second century by Irenaeus. There are clear references to a geographic designation for Arabia which only came into existence at the time of Septimius Severus. And Blood's reference to Philippians only says that the nomen sacrum interpret...
by stephan happy huller
Wed Apr 02, 2014 4:06 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Does Cephas mean a "pointed rock"?
Replies: 21
Views: 31393

Re: Does Cephas mean a "pointed rock"?

They may well be able to bring up some twisted examples where a word which naturally means 'stone that can fit in your hand' can be construed to mean something else but the proper Hebrew word for rock is צור. In Aramaic the correct word is shua http://cal1.cn.huc.edu/showjastrow.php?page=1538 rock J...
by stephan happy huller
Wed Apr 02, 2014 3:47 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Does Cephas mean a "pointed rock"?
Replies: 21
Views: 31393

Re: Does Cephas mean a "pointed rock"?

They have no Sprachgefühl. Why don't they look at what Sokoloff's book is called - A dictionary of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic of the Byzantine period. I would not be surprised if over the course of time terminology changes. It means a stone that can fit in your hand. Look at some of the fucking ref...
by stephan happy huller
Wed Apr 02, 2014 3:22 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Does Cephas mean a "pointed rock"?
Replies: 21
Views: 31393

Re: Does Cephas mean a "pointed rock"?

Here is the entry: כיף n.m. stone, rock (CPA ܟܝܧ LSp 92, SA כיף Ham 575:152) sg. ארון דכיף a stone coffin VR 116:5 [expl. בסלע משכן לו Is 22:16]; חד כיף דשייש a rock of marble Hag 78d(26); כיף שמיר טנרה rock of flint-stone TN Dt 8:15; ib. 32:13; והוה ידע היי דין כיף מקורר מיא והיי דין כיף אית בי שרב...
by stephan happy huller
Wed Apr 02, 2014 1:31 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The Strategy for Mythicists Going Forward
Replies: 25
Views: 32428

Re: The Strategy for Mythicists Going Forward

Here is a fuller account of the ceremony (with confirmation among contemporaries about the accuracy of the reporting): http://books.google.com/books?id=vzS2AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA561&lpg=PA561&dq=%22olma+d'nhoora%22&source=bl&ots=S_9PDdOPNO&sig=bWf4LVVCnA4HoiLbBtgmIMnUaO8&hl=en&am...
by stephan happy huller
Wed Apr 02, 2014 1:19 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The Strategy for Mythicists Going Forward
Replies: 25
Views: 32428

Re: The Strategy for Mythicists Going Forward

Hi Neil I don't know what more there is to say than what I said. Robert Kraft (*cough*) once argued that Joshua was a messianic name among the Samaritans. It is not (despite what one sixth century Alexandrian bishop said). Jews and Samaritans never named themselves after angels until the Khazhars I ...
by stephan happy huller
Wed Apr 02, 2014 1:16 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The Strategy for Mythicists Going Forward
Replies: 25
Views: 32428

Re: The Strategy for Mythicists Going Forward

Robert Tulip has attempted to ram foreign traditions of 'astrotheology' into the Biblical texts. I think assuming that the Mandaeans are a surviving form of Marcionitism has more going for it. The Marcionite interest or veneration of a 'dog star' is well attested. http://books.google.com/books?id=6j...
by stephan happy huller
Wed Apr 02, 2014 10:33 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The Strategy for Mythicists Going Forward
Replies: 25
Views: 32428

The Strategy for Mythicists Going Forward

I have been informally corresponding with two rather prominent 'mythicists' and I have come to several conclusions many of which I think my find broad disagreement with people here at the forum. The first is that the name 'Jesus' is still a problem for those who want to argue that the founder of Chr...
by stephan happy huller
Tue Apr 01, 2014 8:55 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Loaves and Fishes
Replies: 322
Views: 234984

Re: Loaves and Fishes

To challenge your blank assertion that Adam is not astral, Adam is sometimes interpreted as the avatar of the Age of Taurus, with Abraham/Moses as the avatar of the Age of Aries, Jesus Christ as avatar of the Age of Pisces, and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ as avatar of the Age of Aquarius. You...
by stephan happy huller
Tue Apr 01, 2014 11:27 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Earthly Stranger vs Heavenly Stranger
Replies: 66
Views: 57204

Re: Earthly Stranger vs Heavenly Stranger

After the curse which followed the sin, and immediately before the expulsion in Genesis, we read that, "And the Lord God made for Adam and his wife garments of skin and clothed them" (Gen. 3:21). The Hebrew for "skin," or, is written with an ayin as the first letter. If an alef i...