Re: Joshua 5:13-15 and Mark 16:8: midrash?
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2018 10:01 am
The parallel is like this:
God is the form for Moses
Moses is the form for Joshua
God is the form for Moses
Moses is the form for Joshua
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this is fallacy of a false difference.
Detering would agree with you (I think), since his point (I assume) is that just as the Terapeutae adored a biblical crosser (Moses) so the early pre-Christians adored a biblical crosser (Joshua).Secret Alias wrote: ↑Thu Apr 12, 2018 1:43 pm The point here is that there is nothing in the description of the Therapeutae that would suggest a contact with Jesus or Joshua. Any arguments to the contrary of this reality - or any argument which claims otherwise - are likely prompted by an overzealous scholar hoping to make that connection.
Your fallacy of the false difference is so evident that I find that the same ''river'' becomes a great ''Ocean'' (!) according to the Naasseni:Secret Alias wrote: ↑Thu Apr 12, 2018 12:50 pm So a river is the same thing as a sea? Remind me that next time when I chose between buying a pound of perch and a pound of sea bass.