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I think the major difference between the Bruno Bauer influenced Monist and Marxist positions is that one thought that the salvation scheme was formed among the proletariat in 2nd century Rome in the fictional context of 1st century Jerusalem, while the other (I forget which) said that it actually ca...

Without the ability to compare the fingerprints recovered from the NT with known Flavian fingerprints, the process will become tediously speculative and essentially moot. Heh. The sad thing about this statement is that NT research will always stay "tediously speculative" to some extent. F...

mh, Why not turn my attention to proving that Obama's birth certificate is legit and not the product of a long running Islamic plot to take over the world? I just don't care for sheer speculation or fanaticism of any kind, left, right or even center. If one were to ask me, the Marxists Engels and Ka...

"The Flavian fingerprints" - like that's discernible Yes, I demand to know whether these Flavian fingerprints are Loop, Whorl or Arch patterns. The first two can be identified by the presence of "deltas" (only one per fingerprint on a loop pattern, two for whorl pattern), or lac...

Every male Jew over the age of 19 was required to tithe to the second Temple the amount of one half shekel every year- during the first fruits day of the Passover. A measure of the first fruits of the field, and livestock, was also required- usually brought by a delegation from the town, who usuall...

In later rabbinic Judaism, there was a patriarch who resided in Galilee and he was granted the right to continue to collect the goodwill offerings for the poor in Judea. Those who collected the contributions were known as "apostles" because they were sent overseas for the purpose. Prior to...

This isn't 'authentically Jewish' enough for you: Jesus replied, "Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning. Plato would have preferred to share wives in common ... no need for divorce. None of that sort of thing in Juda...

With the Samaritans it is based on an overlapping system of (a) Anno Mundi i.e. from the date of creation and (b) 'entry' i.e. when the Israelites came into the Promised Land. Not surprisingly Joshua enters Canaan in a Jubilee. The Samaritans link the concept to that of 'divine Favor.' Mighty conve...

I'm still a bit unclear about the starting point for these 7 and 49 year cycles of land and debt rest. The quote above (on Jubilee years) says the biblical text does not say how the original holders of the land came into possession to it. I have to wonder whether these cycles may not be arbitrary, e...

This is what Norman C. Habel has to say about Jubilee years in The Land is Mine: Six Biblical Land Ideologies (1993): [104] ... THE LAW OF JUBILEE The law of jubilee, which follows the land sabbath law, introduces a unique social institution designed to incorporate further regulations that will gove...