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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...

Am I now actually witnessing an apparition of the aerial battle between Simon Magus and Simon Peter over Rome?

DCH (working off a bit of "flex" time)

Because George Washington, the alleged first president of the Eu-Knighted States, was said to have chopped down the family's cherry tree and readily, almost gleefully, admitted it to dear ol' dad, because, it is alleged, he could not tell a lie, it is not right to categorically state that George was...

Are there folks here who are really suggesting that author of Zechariah 6:12 has in mind some sort of celestial being? Isn't the main proposal & argument that Philo proposed some sort of contemporaneous celestial being? No, actually I readily accept that Philo understood this to be an allegory ...