... I read this book several years ago and was impressed with it. As I recall, it presents the scenario I have occasionally mentioned: the major Pentateuch...
... Thanks, I'll look into an interlibrary loan... ... Is that "rapid loss" assertion based on the interpretation of the verse in Ezra, or is there more...
Gabe, I believe you are correct. The 3-way discussion is a post-exilic discussion.... specifically from the period of time when the temple was being built. ...
Gabe, You write: Is that "rapid loss" assertion based on the interpretation of the verse in Ezra, or is there more evidence? This point is very murky to me,...
I was reading material about the deity called Agni, also known as Atar or Adar. He was also called "Apam Nabat" ("Child of Waters"), and some sources even say...
[Sorry this is kinda long.] ... Whew . . . I've just seen this much-hyped movie. Afterwards I was silent for a long time, and went for a drive, thinking...
... It is distinctive. If it is really an account of text-based religious teaching, then it seems quite early – for we would expect such teaching to...
Gabe, You write: "99% George! Remember that number! The differences between SP, Qumran, LXX and MT are, for all practical purposes, a matter of spelling...
Hi George, I have often proposed that the whole Chronological schema of the Bible, of the period of an Anno Mundi culminating in the Second rededication of the...
John, You write: "You might like to revisit my posts on the Biblical caendar, it would fit your version of born-again minimalism very well." Indeed, I have...
Eye Mage asked ... In the Western Calendar the Date of Easter is the first Sunday after the first Full Moon after the 23th March (the Equinox by one set of ...
I have just done a "major" revision on my article on Mose's Shattered 10 Commandments and the archaeological evidence. If interested cf. the following url : ...
... Agni was sent by the vedic gods to bring the self sacrifice to man. He is born out of the waters. Fire and water are connected in the sacrifice as Agni is...
Rich, You write: " I have seen it but cannot locate the reference that a baby who ... This would be consistent with the Isis/Osiris material where Isis was...
Walter, Thanks for the reference to the Shattered Stones article of yours. But I passed by your articles about the Bull Calf. One you wrote said they were...
Walter, This conclusion still seems awfully interesting to me! Regards, George Conclusions: http://www.bibleorigins.net/GoldenCalfnotEgyptian.html "Jeroboam...
Dear George, I understand that a "fusion" exists of calf worship from Haran of Mesopotamia and from aspects of the Egyptian cow-goddess,Hathor, who gave birth...
Walter, It may be that a "fusion" of Egyptian and Mesopotamian elements can be MOST easily found and explained during the Persian and Ptolemaic period, when...
Walter's writings mention "Jeroboam, Son of Nebat". There is only ONE Nebat in the whole bible. He is mentioned 25 times. And he is always the "Father" of...
Dear Walter On your excellent webpage you write "The reader is advised that my research "presuppositions" are those of a Secular Humanist. Humanists understand...
George In the Indo-Iranian language of the Mitannite Hurrians, Nebat also neant "Nephew" (our word Nephew is derived from this source, as is the Latin word...
Hi George, ... there is also a Persian image of "god dwelling in the fire" in the Exodus story of the burning bush.... are we really to believe that this TOO...
Hi George, I think, to summarise the first half of your post, that Davies is primarily concerned with the (for want of a better word) amalgamation of writings...
I wrote ... George replied ... I await it with interest! ... George, I regard the Hasmonaean scribal schools as the source of the Millennarian hopes of the...
Richard wrote ... Richard this is precisely what the documentary hypothesis shows so clearly. Richard Eliot Friedman in "Who wrote the Bible" clearly shows...
John, How very fascinating! I find it interesting that you use the term "nephew", and "Dadua" meant Uncle. Could it also have meant nephew? You point to the...
As Richard Abbott has quite rightly noted, the notion of gods being "feiry" is NOT UNIQUE to the Persians, it precedes them by two millennia. Cf. the following...
Walter and Richard, And yet, we find "Yahweh dwelling in fire" in only ONE instance! Why would that be? If it is common and widespread for FIRE to be the...
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