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Perhaps we should distinguish the difference between "Myth" (stories created to explain commonplaces such as the cycle of birth & death, the changing of the seasons, or the existence of evil, involving supernatural beings in the explanatory process) and "Legend" (stories of e...

Gnostics were said to have a special fondness for "wedding night" imagery in which the woman, and most likely a man, washes up and is anointed before "doing the deed" to consummate the marriage. They saw these as analogues to initiations required to allow the mystic to achieve &q...

Here is the take of a contemporary on the newspapers existing in Smyrna: Report on Smyrna by George Rolleston (G.E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode, 1856 - İzmir (Turkey) - 123 pages) Of the educational development of the middle class of any population, the character of their favourite journals may be take...

Here is a link to Steven Avery's posts on the CARM discussion board: http://forums.carm.org/vbb/search.php?searchid=2036656 About The Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry CARM is a 501(c)3, non-profit, Christian ministry dedicated to the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ and the promotion and ...

To bring it back to Judaism, there is one interesting question I often revert to. How many different stories am I actually reading? Or to be a bit more specific. Am I actually reading many different stories at all? Several. The problem is that each succeeding version of society has re-interpreted t...

http://eu.greekreporter.com/2014/11/11/mosaics-revealed-at-ancient-greek-city-of-zeugma-in-turkey/ I have to say that those mosaics are probably of the best quality that I have ever seen (admitting everything I have ever seen has been in the form of photos). They are truly pieces of art, not just a...

Steven,

With all that you have said so far, what exactly is your point?

Are you saying codex Sinaiticus is a hoax and worthless for text critical purposes? What does that say about what codices or mss you *do* think have value.

I'll be honest, I have a hard time telling what your agenda is.

DCH

Balderdash, Lucius!

I have found Mani's true seal:

My objection to this discussion of euhemerism is that Euhemerus suggested , in a fictitious story, that certain gods commonly worshipped were in fact mortal men who benefited mankind, and in turn came to be revered as gods. Edit: His purpose had been to justify the apotheosis of Cassander, king of M...

It looks as though the earliest (though I may have missed something) is an inscription from the Catacombs of Lucina/Commodilla, near San Paolo fuori le Mura. It is the epitaph of a youth, Eutychius, who died in his 19th year. There are two loaves and two fishes carved below the epitaph. I am not qu...