David Cook wrote, " I guess Horace here should be Horus." I thought Re/Ra was the Sun God. Best Wishes -- JOHN E STATON (BA Sheffield; DipTheol. Bristol) ...
A little reading (I'm no Egyptologist) suggests Horus as a sky-god, with the sun as his eye. Yes, I reckon Re is the sun god - but I suspect the Egyptian job...
Ken, I don't know about those two particular theories, but you might take a look at: B. M. Metzger, “Methodology in the Study of Mystery Religions and Early...
The Egyptian pantheon changed from dynasty to dynasty and nome to nome. Often gods would be merged to produce Amon-Ra or Ra-Horakhte, Ptah-Atum or even...
... And by all means, run, don't walk, to the library to get Smith's _Drudgery Divine_. Jeffrey -- Jeffrey B. Gibson, D.Phil. (Oxon) 1500 W. Pratt Blvd. ...
It will probably se some time untill we know if the "Gabriel Revelation" stone is genuine or fraudulent. Patina studies surely play a role, though that appears...
... From: <goranson@...> To: <crosstalk2@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 5:08 AM Subject: [XTalk] Gabriel, Ephraim and stone ... I have just...
All, On a different list someone raised a question about the possible historic influence of Buddhism or Buddhist teaching on the teaching of Jesus or the...
... From: "Timothy E. Kennelly" <timothykennelly@...> To: <crosstalk2@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 11:54 AM Subject: [XTalk] Question ...
We agree completely on sentence one (except I would say it IS impossible to sort out this from the loony stuff, because it is loony). And with sentence two,...
Of course it is unsubstantiated, Jim, but Jesus scholarship seems, to me, to assume Jesus lived in a cave or a society similar to some of the deep bush tribes...
Is now available (as of July 15) at the Hartman Institute website: http://www.hartman.org.il/SHInews_View_Eng.asp?Article_Id=162 Jim -- ++++++ Jim West, ThD ...
Apologies for cross-posting. Thank you to everyone who responded to my post, "Are e-lists dying?" This is my follow-up post, and it will be my final public...
I think it fair to say that the more 'specialized' a list is, the more likely it is to have fewer participants and therefore fewer conversations. Remember...
Since the discussion has turned to Judaism and Christianity in India, I hope it is not inappropriate to mention that an article of mine just appeared in print...
... From: "McGrath, James" <jfmcgrat@...> To: <crosstalk2@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 9:51 AM Subject: [XTalk] Acts of Thomas ... ...
... Well, one needn't go over to biblica-list for an example; you can find your test case right here. XTalk, originally CrossTalk, was born in 1996 as an ...
http://jwest.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/rainer-riesner-on-gabriels-vision-or-the-messiah-tablet/ if you're interested. if not, well then don't go look. ;-) -- ...
In essence, my article argues that the Acts of Thomas is a novel, what we might call a "historical fiction", but the occasional accurate details suggest that...
From 1 Thess 4:13-18 it is clear that some members of the Thessalonian church had died. What killed them? The commentators rightly reject the idea that these...
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I don't think that it is relevant how they died. The point here is that somehow the Thessalonians had a false notion about the dead in relation to the second...
Wieland Willker wrote: <<I don't think that it is relevant how they died. The point here is that somehow the Thessalonians had a false notion about the dead in...
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Two notes on a Jerusalem Report/Post article, "The Qumran Quandry" By Ziv Hellman ...
After receiving zero replies to my last question, I will ask a different (though related) one - are there any books (other than those by the Jesus Seminar)...
Hi Richard, I'll respond to the second paragraph: ... From my perspective the "Five Gospels" most especially stands as a major achievement that will continue...
Hi Richard and Gordon, And I'll respond to the first paragraph: Standard scholarly commentaries take a pericope-by-pericope approach. See these series: Sacra...
