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I wish people actually ... had some familiarity with the Jewish beliefs in the first century. It was common to believe that Yahweh = judgement, Elohim = mercy, goodness. What are your thoughts on the Melchizedek Scroll? (11QMelchizedek) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11Q13 That scroll cites Psalm 82...

In his reply of June 6, 2015 at 1:29 pm, Richard Carrier wrote: His original name could well have been Saul, its nearest homophone; although Luke might have just made that up for the same reason. Nope. Fail. The episode in Acts 13:4-12 (where Saul, Barnabas, and John meet the Jewish false prophet na...

Clive wrote:

He wasn't an angel for them

Were nephilim thought of as a type of angel?

May I recommend this article?

The enigmatic mystery of the Nephilim, the Rephaim, and the Titans

Does this make any sense at all? ... Or is it out there? Ben. Yes. Of course. It absolutely makes sense, and I’ve thought about that possibility many times myself. Another possibility is that the author recognized the distinction between El and Yahweh, and wrote his ‘hymn’ to provide an explanation...

But that's not necessarily logical. Stating 'I've got the biggest dick in town' doesn't necessarily mean that I know of someone better endowed than myself. I might actually have the biggest dick in town. Yes, it is completely logical – even when the conclusion is wrong. Methinks you are confusing i...

Where is this fucking Joshua expectation that Robert Kraft pretended existed somewhere but he could never quite demonstrate that it existed? Here. Deuteronomy 34:10 No prophet ever again arose in Israel like Moses, who knew the Lord face to face. Why would the author go out of his way to emphasize ...

Here’s an interesting reconstruction of Deuteronomy 32:43. It might shed some light on the question of how people understood Deuteronomy - back in the old days when ‘Jesus walked the earth’. :D :facepalm: The original text of Deuteronomy 32:43, as a whole, is notoriously difficult to reconstruct. In...

Fwiw, methinks Deuteronomy 32-33 is trying to explain how Yahweh came to be the god of Israel. Methinks the author was trying to say that Yahweh did not inherit Israel in the same way that the other gods (the sons of El) inherited their nations. Yahweh did not inherit Israel because he was a son of ...

... When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided all mankind, he set up boundaries for the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel. ... Deuteronomy 32:8 “When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided up humankind, he set the boundarie...

I was looking at Deuteronomy 32:12 - a line which seems to make absolutely clear that Yahweh was the only god of Israel: Deuteronomy 32:12 “Yahweh alone was guiding (Jacob and his people), no foreign god was with him.” Why would the author of Deuteronomy 32 go to such great lengths to emphasize tha...