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But I'm speaking here as a minimalist and I know not many will go that far, certainly not without a lot more evidence than I can give here. But there are yet more plausible explanations for the origin of the idea of the 12 tribes. One might even ask if the zodiac division into 12 (as opposed to 13,...

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My German is so bad that I can not read and comprehend with insight languages often requires. But I can get some kind of idea of content and elements that interest me, or in some sense trigger my curiosity. Ich wird ein versuch zumindest machen

I have been on the lookout after Gymnasticus by Philostratus ever since I first found some citations from it about Pankration. Have anyone by any chance read it, or in some way familiar with content? Even more important, does anyone know about any translation of it available online? I know about the...

You could have used Israelites true meaning from people who wrote near the time the concept was created, but that doesn't show what you want, so you dishonestly go 600-700 years later to some Hellenist who state what you want. I have little to contribute in relation to this ongoing dispute. It caug...

Although I agree with the Lazarus-Osiris relation seems like a shot in the dark. I must admit it is my opinion, without really having some authority to back up either the one or the other possible view on subject. When stating the difficulties with claiming to know much with any certainty, I find it...