Forum: Religion and Philosophy
29th February 2024, 10:02 PM
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Thinking about this some more, I'm seeing how...
Thinking about this some more, I'm seeing how this might fit with my hypothesis.
The hypothesis (such as it is) posits the idea that the Qumran Yahad (Community) were using a genizah as their...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
29th February 2024, 07:12 PM
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
29th February 2024, 02:57 PM
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
16th February 2024, 04:12 PM
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
13th February 2024, 11:34 PM
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
6th February 2024, 05:35 AM
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Yeah, I think so.
Anyway, here's an...
Yeah, I think so.
Anyway, here's an interview with Prof Eisenman, presented by Dr Tabor, for anyone who is still interested in this topic:
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Robert Eisenman & the Dead Sea Scrolls:...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
18th January 2024, 03:58 AM
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
18th January 2024, 01:41 AM
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17th January 2024, 04:34 PM
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
17th January 2024, 06:21 AM
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I don't know, Steve. Maybe it's my accent.
...
I don't know, Steve. Maybe it's my accent.
Have you tried reading it in Australian?
I don't think there's a google translate for humour.
Take it from me, seriously and unambiguously, the...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
17th January 2024, 12:14 AM
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Does no one here understand how jokes work?
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Does no one here understand how jokes work?
That's what's weird.
It's also weird that people only seemed to get bored after it turned out that they didn't know what they were talking about.
...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
16th January 2024, 12:30 AM
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
31st December 2023, 04:31 PM
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
29th December 2023, 03:13 PM
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I dispute the idea that homeless people are...
I dispute the idea that homeless people are incompetent. I have been homeless myself and it has nothing to do with "competence". There are many factors involved in modern homelessness, also I suspect...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
29th December 2023, 01:21 PM
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But the historical figure of the Righteous...
But the historical figure of the Righteous Teacher is not found in the oldest scrolls. The older scrolls are the books of the Hebrew Bible, hundreds of them all, except Esther. That's why I think...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
29th December 2023, 12:36 PM
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
18th December 2023, 12:53 AM
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From page 1 of that thread:
I don't think...
From page 1 of that thread:
I don't think a Scribe in the 1st century BCE would be using a kind of handwriting from 100 years later. Same scribe also copied the Temple Scroll; when was that...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
14th December 2023, 09:02 PM
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
14th December 2023, 06:42 PM
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I mean, I've seen several people on this site...
I mean, I've seen several people on this site defending the ideas of Richard Carrier. Talk about "fringe" ideas, you don't get any more fringe than "Jesus didn't exist".
I'm not an expert in New...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
14th December 2023, 12:05 PM
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Thank you ahhell.
I have no problem with...
Thank you ahhell.
I have no problem with people questioning my arguments. I know that they go against the mainstream, but they're not really very far from it.
I might be wrong, but no one has...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
14th December 2023, 11:40 AM
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
14th December 2023, 10:17 AM
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
13th December 2023, 10:46 AM
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I can see what you are doing.
Why can't you...
I can see what you are doing.
Why can't you see what you are doing?
You are still pontificating about subjects that you know next to nothing about.
Engage with the substance of the...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
13th December 2023, 12:10 AM
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Not sure what I did to offend you, apart from...
Not sure what I did to offend you, apart from telling you to read my thread before dismissing it. How offensive was that?
You apparently continue to refuse to familiarise yourself with what it is...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
10th December 2023, 03:23 PM
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I got it Steve.
I also get that not everyone...
I got it Steve.
I also get that not everyone wants to read that thread. Not everyone wants to go down the rabbit hole, get lost in the weeds and devote serious time and effort to a subject that,...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
10th December 2023, 12:14 PM
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
10th December 2023, 11:15 AM
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
9th December 2023, 06:50 PM
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Your first post in this thread. Here you are...
Your first post in this thread. Here you are pretending to know all about the DSS. Wow, this acbytesla guy must be an expert on the Scrolls and 2nd Temple Judaism, right? Why else would he be so...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
9th December 2023, 05:16 PM
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I have made many contributions to this thread...
I have made many contributions to this thread ranging from meticulous presentation of evidence and logical inference, to ridicule and personal attacks (sorry about that). You may not have seen them...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
9th December 2023, 03:49 PM
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Thanks for that.
I'm not trying to prove the...
Thanks for that.
I'm not trying to prove the resurrection literally happened - I don't think it did. I think any post crucifixion appearances of Jesus can be explained by Post Bereavement...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
8th December 2023, 09:09 PM
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Yes, that's all well and good, but what I'm...
Yes, that's all well and good, but what I'm seeing you saying is:
"Brainache is the winner of the HJ debate. I am not able to counter all the evidence and arguments he has presented in that thread...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
8th December 2023, 06:27 PM
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
8th December 2023, 05:02 PM
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
8th December 2023, 04:35 PM
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Couple of points:
I'm not doing Apologetics....
Couple of points:
I'm not doing Apologetics. How many times do I have to say that I'm not trying to prove that Jesus was miraculous?
What I am attempting to do is called "History" and I...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
8th December 2023, 12:52 PM
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What offends me is people dismissing years of...
What offends me is people dismissing years of research and logical reasoning as "theistic nonsense" without even looking at it.
What offends me is people so confidently pontificating about...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
8th December 2023, 11:03 AM
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
7th December 2023, 10:27 PM
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
7th December 2023, 08:54 PM
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
7th December 2023, 07:43 PM
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Yay. I win.
My HJ has prevailed again.
You...
Yay. I win.
My HJ has prevailed again.
You saw it here folks; they have no reply to my not at all Crackpot Theory.
At first you said there could be no connection between the DSS and the NT....
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
7th December 2023, 06:58 PM
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
7th December 2023, 06:13 PM
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OK. Looks like I'm going to have to repeat my...
OK. Looks like I'm going to have to repeat my whole thread over here.
Could be anyone in the first half of the 1st century who:
Leads a community of "The Poor" in the region west of the Jordan...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
7th December 2023, 04:56 PM
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
7th December 2023, 04:32 PM
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Do you know what a Genizah is?
Can you guess...
Do you know what a Genizah is?
Can you guess why the "Congregation of the Poor" might be using a Genizah as their library of sacred texts, rather than a library of hundreds of shiny, newly minted...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
7th December 2023, 04:17 PM
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You really need to read my thread.
The...
You really need to read my thread.
The dating of the scrolls is not as you describe it.
That's a palaeographic dating of the Habakkuk Pesher (one I rely on a lot) to the mid 1st century CE.
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
7th December 2023, 03:38 PM
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I take it that you haven't read my thread.
...
I take it that you haven't read my thread.
OK then, please explain why Barnabas calls his community "Ephraim".
Explain why Josephus associates the name "Absalom" with Menahem The Essene.
Who...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
7th December 2023, 01:14 PM
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
7th December 2023, 12:58 PM
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Thanks for the serious replies, folks.
Of...
Thanks for the serious replies, folks.
Of course, Scholars all over the world regard the ISF Religion and Philosophy sub-forum to be the foremost publisher of rigorously peer-reviewed literature...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
7th December 2023, 10:32 AM
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OK. That is facetious, I presume.
In my...
OK. That is facetious, I presume.
In my "theory", Paul was telling ghost stories about the Righteous Teacher from Qumran.
He tried to tell his "Gospel of the risen Christ" to the original Jesus...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
6th December 2023, 06:02 PM
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What has happened to the Mythicist contingent...
What has happened to the Mythicist contingent that like to comment on these threads?
I was hoping for a substance-driven, mutually informative, positive and productive debate, you know, the kind...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
4th December 2023, 05:17 PM
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