volgadon

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  1. I thought someone would bring that up. there are just as many differences as similarities between the coming forth of both books.
  2. Snow is dead wrong. Here is something for you to ponder, the Dead Sea Scrolls brought to light things about Bible texts that we could not have known before the scrolls were discovered, so to assume that the current errors we know of are all of them, well that is rather naive and hasty.
  3. There are various Jewish traditions.
  4. I've been asked in the past not to debate anything with you, so Ii won't press the issue.
  5. Well, a work that appeared in the last decades of the 13th century. It purports to be the work of Rashbi.
  6. No, I'm not aware of that. Full documentation for that far-fetched claim, please.
  7. Can you provide the original texts? No, all we can do is compare various manuscripts within a manuscript family, plus whatever scattered comments there are by early church fathers, so to answer you the way you would like is not feasible. And no, it is not smoke and mirrors either.
  8. Becuase such a stringent study is impossible without having the sources. It is however quite conceivable that this is exactly what happened. Makes just as much historical sense as your suggestion.
  9. I was just thinking about that the other day. I miss good old 2d cartoons, they are a lot richer, IMHO.
  10. Simple common sense, which is how most theories start out. Was Mark the only written or oral record about Christ? How do we account for the unique material presented by the author of Matthew? Did he merely make it up? That option seems to me as much a guess as mine is.
  11. I think they are showing the first one on Sunday. When did they finally broadcast it?
  12. I was wrong about the moon thing, that was Oliver Huntington, but isn't George Laub the sole source for many of these wilder claims?
  13. Isn't George Laub the one who claimed that Joseph Smith said that there were men on the moon?
  14. Pastrobob, I am a native Israeli. Kolob has never been Hebrew for Mercury, neither has kokob in and of itself, which means star or planet. In modern Hebrew, Mercury is Hama (with a chet not hey). The nsimplest explanation of kolob's etymology is that Joseph Smith heard the r as an l and the word is actually korob, that is, NEAR. And for an interesting ancient parallel with Abraham 3, check out my blog post. Calba Savua's Orchard: And We All Shine On
  15. On the issue of dark skin, there was a Jewish tradition of dark skin being a punishment for sin, a tradition which seems to be found in the first chapter of the Song of Songs where the girl has to make excuses for being swarthy, that it is a natural result of working outdoors. Said tradition also forms the basis for the medieval Ladino romance Morenika (shecharchoret).
  16. Yet not every time peace is mentioned does it equte covenant. Who says that the peace in Jerusalem was peace in God?
  17. A covenant of peace is a specific covenant, not that peace means covenant in its primary usage. So even the Hebrew folk etymology does not mean a covenant, rather, like folk etymologies do, it developed because words sound similar to others.
  18. Another possibility is the gate of the chase, shaar-ritza if you like, meaning a place with good hunting. Though gate is shaar, there are some ancient place names like Besherey (a variant of Beit-Shearim), which lend support to the idea. It could also the gates of acceptance. Something else to consider is that sher here means flesh, or rather, people, a variant on shear. All in all, none of my proposals here seem that strong to me. As for sheretz, there is the term sheritza, which meant teeming.
  19. Any sources for that? Sounds like folk etymology of your, frankly.
  20. You must not have read any aggadic or midrashic material, not to mention things like Jubilees.