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That´s an experiment: How would an ancient reader of Mark´s gospel imagine the world of Jesus - (who know absolutely nothing about the real geography, but read very carefully)? http://www.michaelturton.com/Mark/GMark09.html#9X One other consideration might be that Mark was originally a play to a so...

"Dalmanutha" can stand for Dalmatia in one section but for Alexandria in another section. Mark 8: 10 - 11 (Alexander Aramaic): 10. And at once he climbed aboard the vessel with his disciples and came to the land of oppression*. 11. And the Pharisees came out and began making demands to hi...

Ghost- What then is your analysis of Peter? Who was he and when did he live? When did he die? I am very intrigued with what you posit. Peter, however, is the lynchpin of the Stories that became the NT. I can place him at Passover in Jerusalem in 4 BCE and 9 CE. In 4 BCE, he is a child ("He who ...

VERY interesting insight. Julius Caesar has a place in the NT. The Tenth Legion was his "Favorite" and it was in attendance at the Fall of Jerusalem along with the star-struck Twelfth Legion - See Acts. I can place "The Release of Bar-Abbas" with the Eastern Crowd and a particula...

Well, sure, the KING'S tunnel. Of course. Steve43- Let me offer a few words in a peaceful demeanor. In re-reading one of my earlier Posts it may have come across as "If you don't read and understand Heisenberg in German and Feynman in Caltech, you can't understand any of this". Not what I...

Antiquities..., 15, 11, 7: "There was also an occult passage built for the king; it led from Antonia to the inner temple, at its eastern gate; over which he also erected for himself a tower, that he might have the opportunity of a subterraneous ascent to the temple, in order to guard against an...

Wrong. The Passover "slaughter" was in 3 B.C. after Herod had died and Archelaus assumed control. But so much is wrong about your post. So: TELL ME!! Prove that I'm wrong. Do it. Edit: I need to add to what I just wrote lest it appear that I'm screaming at the monitor and the nurses are g...

"The Sea" then becomes symbolic of all of those people who came from surrounding areas and countries who are surrounding the Temple for Passover. CW Hi Charles, I also think that the sea and the temple are connected on a symbolic level, but I haven't figured out in which sense. Your expla...

Mark 12: 1 (Alexander Aramaic): [1] And he began speaking to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard and put a waterway around it. And he dug into it a winepress and built in it a cellar, and he took on workers and went to observe from a distance. I believe that there is an entirely differe...

Update from Kenneth J. Dover, The Greeks , p. 10: In discussing the word "Amargi" => "Freedom", he states: "...But there are many different freedoms. " Amargi ", like the Akkadian word which translates it in bilingual documents, covers manumission of slaves, remiss...