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Old 08-16-2008, 03:21 AM   #1
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I opened this thread to give way to those who do not have the cultural level of Jeffrey Gibson to express their views on the various aspects presented the subject "origins of Christianity."

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Jeffrey Gibson has written:

"...And what is your level of competence in Greek, Hebrew, and Latin. Have you had formal training in these languages?.."
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Littlejohn has written:

Whatever be my level of educational attainment, I am sure that your is greater than mine. However, I have been able to arrive there where would you can't arrive ever without my particulars: namely the indications of a "child of a lesser God "....
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Jeffrey Gibson has written:

Which Catholic apologists say that the references to Jesus in the Talmud are nor references to Jesus of Nazareth. Please give names and text citations.

Littlejohn:

...... Do you want to denounce them?....

Jeffrey:

I want to determine if there is any merit to your claim by seeing whether or not you actually have any evidence that backs it up. Apparently you do not.
What should I do ?.... To put to "turn upside down" the entire my archive to trace my posts in which those exhilarating people appear? ... I can only tell you that among them there were also prelates.

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Littlejohn:

I did not believed that an "agnostic" was so close to its heart the fate of Catholics apologists ...

Jeffrei:

One sure sign, I've learned, of the fact that people are laying claim to knowledge they do not possess, and do not wish to show that they do not know what they are talking about, is when they reply to a request for information not by giving the information requested but by speaking, as LJ has now just done, about the character of the one who asked for it.
"..One sure sign, I've learned, of the fact that people are laying claim to knowledge they do not possess.."

What would be the knowledges that I do not possess?.. Those on Greek language?..or Jewish? .. or Latin? ... Apart from all this, into Internet there are writings of people who, without any doubt, about what they know MUCH more than you! Today, fortunately, in Internet one can find everything you need to undertake any research: this is technological progress, that MUCH feared by your references....

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Jeffrei:

I take it you haven't read Peter Schafer's Jesus in the Talmud, correct?

Littlejohn:

I have not read Peter Schäfer. My "forsennate" (without pause) researches don't consent me to read the opinions of others, unless they are strictly functional to my researches.

Jeffrei:

Shaffer isn't "functional" to your researches about whether Jesus is spoken of in the Talmud?
In network there are many opinions on the content of the Talmud, about references to Jesus. There are also the amenities written by Gil Student (http://talmud.faithweb.com/). If the thesis of Schäfer is aligned with that of Student, then I can also do without reading his text. If not, nobody prevents you from outline, at least in broad outline, his thoughts on the Talmud. (save me the credentials of Schäfer: I am already informed through the site:

http://www.princeton.edu/pr/news/98/...2-schafer.html) (*)

However, for all that regard me and no matter what they have written the various Schäfer, Student and others of like, I can at least provide ONE proof (but there are many other and with devastating character for the "sacred" lie) that what is reported in the Talmud about Jesus is reliable. I found the key to solve the mystery of the origins of Christianity precisely because of rabbinic scriptures!

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...And anyway, always a matter of time, I can only read electronic texts.

Jeffrei:

Good gawd. Another Pete Brown! splited
I do not know Mr. Pete Brown (mountainman?). However, if he followed my research method you can say that is not a "split"! (italian concept for "silly")

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As we've all seen here, a sure indication of a poster not having the linguistic expertise he/she has intimated he/she has (weren't we supposed to accept as authoritative and true John's claims about Iaso and the root of Iesous and what Jerome was up to, etc. etc.?) is answers like the dodge above to direct questions about the nature and extent of their training in the languages they comment on and make claims about.
"..weren't we supposed to accept as authoritative and true John's claims about Iaso and the root of Iesous and what Jerome was up to, etc. etc.?...

Again I did not understand well what you want to know about Iaso ... However, in order to clear the field from any misunderstanding, the following quote is NOT a my statement, but, in fact, a mere quote taken from the site:

http://www.eliyah.com/forum2/Forum1/HTML/001510.html

"Among the dialects spoken in Greek how is Iaso rendered in the Ionic dialect? Ieso. Now what is the male form of Ieso? Iesous, which is exactly what is rendered in Strong s Greek /New Testament Dictionary #2424." "This is a grave error, since the name Iasous is the masculine form of Iaso, the Greek healing g-ddess."


However, as I said, I am preparing a post to answer your questions.

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So it looks like what we have in "LittleJohn" is an Italian Pete Brown.
Despite what you may think, I not feel me at all offended by such juxtaposition ... (I also hope that it is not Pete!)

One day Deng Xiao Ping said: "... no matter what color the cat is, the important thing is that catch the mices!"

You not only are you raising a fuss of unnecessary controversy, to mask your inability to respond with logic to my propositions (which under I put forward again), but uses on an "industrial scale" an of the most abused and well-worn polemical device, that goes under the name" ad hominem attack "!

This is a device to which the Catholic Italian apologists use very often, to try to dismiss the credibility of their opponents, as the arguments proposed become stringent and feel themselves with the "shoulders" at the wall!

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And what on earth are the "indications" that one is a "child of a lesser god", let alone the bases (and more importantly, the proof) of the claim that being one gives one greater insight into, and knowledge of, matters Ancient Greek and NT than is possessed by those who are not one such child?
Your reasoning to "sophistries" could be expressed so an way much more simple and clear .... A tribute to Brooke for its clarity and simplicity!

The "children of a lesser God" have no means better than those of the "superior" God, to do their researches and to highlight the attained results. Simply them, thanks to their "no-stupidity", to their intuition and sensitivity, can offset inequalities of the school level, and, for "some" cases, even exceed the various "solons" with the "stench under the nose!"

I now you place again my propositions which are still waiting from you a LOGICAL comment widely shared:

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In the meantime you should take note of the following points:

1) - Neither the English nor in the Italian the Joshua of the Old Testament was translated as JESUS;

2) - In the anciente greek the term IHSOUS is ABSENT, while in the modern one the term is present but it has another meant (the "living-bread"). If in the greek Ihsous meant "savior" or "God saves", as the hebraic Yehoshuah, then it is absurd that it is not more existing. In fact, the concept of savior in the Greek language is expressed by the term "SOTER." This makes us understand that it was not a translation but, at most, a transliteration;

3) - The phonetic difference between the term IESOUS and the IOSUE, with whom Jerome has translated more than 110 times the Hebrew word Yehoshuah is "abysmal";

4) - we have by the patristic writers serious indications that the name Jesus was not the real one of the Nazarene;

5) - The Arabs call Jesus ISA, which is very similar to the hebraic Y'SHAY, which is found in the "Scroll of Safed", in which the it is narrated, in romanced form, the Virgin Mary's (Stadea) story and of its two twins Yehuda and Yeshay (Judas Thomas and Jesus);

6) - Y'SHAY is translated into English with Jesse, while in Italian and Latin it is translated as "IESSE." In the works of Epiphanius of Salamis, we find a quote where he says that the first Christians were called (at least according to him) IESSEI! (*)

All this does not mean anything to you? ... All that are simple "coincidences"?
and..

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In addition you should clarify me whether, from your point of view, the IHSOUS that we find in the LXX's Bible is the translation of Yehoshuah or its phonetic transliteration. Because, you see, if one insists on claiming that this is a "normal" phonetic transliteration, then we can "jump" the phase of glottologist and go directly to that of psychologist!

Greetings

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(*) - From a review on the book:

"...In this lucid, richly detailed, and accessible book, Peter Schäfer examines how the rabbis of the Talmud read, understood, and used the New Testament Jesus narrative to assert, ultimately, Judaism's superiority over Christianity"

If this is really a view of Schäfer, then I have clear his "objectivity" about what he wrote! According to him, therefore, the rabbi of the first centuries WOULD READ the NT before writing their quotations about Jesus! ... Crazy!

In another site such David Duke exposes this other review:

"A new book, Jesus in the Talmud, that exposes the shocking truth about the position of Judaism toward Jesus Christ. It was written by none other than Dr. Peter Schaefer, head of Princeton University Judaic Studies Program and one of the world’s most famous academic authorities on Judaism. Once again my research and writings have been verified by the most respected of academics.

The facts are clear. The Talmud, which is the highest authority of Judaism, not only makes hateful and pornographic attacks against Jesus Christ, it even boasts that the Jewish community, not the Romans, arrested, tried and executed Jesus. In fact, the Talmud exudes so much hatred against Jesus that it claims the Jewish priests subjected his body to a series of four different torturous executions. It is not anti-Semitic to state these facts, it is simply the truth. It is not anti-Semitic to expose Jewish extremism and hatred, again, it is simply the truth. "


Apart from the blatant anti-Semitism of Catholic mould, everything, at least, should make silenced all those who still argue that references in the Talmud are not directed to Jesus (and moreover TRUES!)


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What should I do ?
You should stop claiming support from experts you cannot identify.
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You should stop claiming support from experts you cannot identify

[/Quote] negazionism

The term "Catholic apologists" is a completely generic and does not identify any legal entity or group legally constituted. These individuals (those to whom I was referring) with whom I confronted polemically some time ago on sites in Italy. I do not understand why should not I make hints to this aspect ....

However abound on Internet Catholic sites who make the "negazionismo" (relative to denial) their main theme. I hope that the complaint of all this does not create problems here in the forum Infidels.org


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Here's some advice for Littlejohn:

Do not ever quote David Duke. You instantly lose all credibility. Duke is a neo-Nazi sympathizer and an anti-Semite and a crackpot racialist.
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The term "Catholic apologists" is a completely generic and does not identify any legal entity or group legally constituted. These individuals (those to whom I was referring) with whom I confronted polemically some time ago on sites in Italy. I do not understand why should not I make hints to this aspect ....
So far as I can see, no one has said you couldn't make such hints. What's been asked of you is that you tell us the names of the individuals you claim to have confronted. Who specifically are the individuals "to whom [you were] referring"?

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Please stop wasting your time with facts or reason. Bow down to the superior and personal research conducted by Littlejohn. No matter how many times you ask him to backup his assertions with citations he will not deliver. It's just easier to say. My God, you do know everything and leave it at that....
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Please stop wasting your time with facts or reason. Bow down to the superior and personal research conducted by Littlejohn.
I though he said he arrived at his conclusions through intuition and the special sensitivities he possesses in virtue of his being a child of a lesser god?

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Please stop wasting your time with facts or reason. Bow down to the superior and personal research conducted by Littlejohn. No matter how many times you ask him to backup his assertions with citations he will not deliver. It's just easier to say. My God, you do know everything and leave it at that....
Watch you who one revises!....

"..Please stop wasting your time with facts or reason..."

I must inferred that Littlejohn's those are not nor "facts" or "reason" ... Better to rely on "sacred" Bible, where "facts" and "reason" there are an enormity ...

"..Bow down to the superior and personal research conducted by Littlejohn..."

I said to be a "child of a lesser God". You are a "child of Yahweh": means therefore that you are a Superior! ..

"..No matter how many times you ask him to backup his assertions with citations he will not deliver..."

I have already said and repeated a thousand times that I ARE NOT HERE to make proselytes or to convince someone about "my" truth, but only to provide ideas for research, along with some data, apologising not able to provide of more because of copyright. (the book I am writing still needs time to be completed: when it will be, then I will can to be more "generous" in providing data).

Another fundamental reason that has prompted me to post in the forums, was to make known to those interested, that besides the classic path of research (the one prepared by the clergy forger about 19 centuries ago) there are others who deserve to be explored. Who is not interested to one, has no reason to complain about what I say.

"..My God, you do know everything and leave it at that...."

Lucky you that you still have the ability to believe in Santa Claus and everything else ... I lost, along the way, this capacity. On the other hand, however, can sleep me peacefully, without fear of dying with my "sins "!....

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I though he said he arrived at his conclusions through intuition and the special sensitivities he possesses in virtue of his being a child of a lesser god?

Jeffrey
You forgot to add "tenacity" in research and study. For the rest, goes for you what I already told to HaRaKyRi .....

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Here's some advice for Littlejohn:

Do not ever quote David Duke. You instantly lose all credibility. Duke is a neo-Nazi sympathizer and an anti-Semite and a crackpot racialist.
I absolutely did not know who was this David Duke! Here's what I wrote at the end of my post:

"..Apart from the blatant anti-Semitism of Catholic mould, everything, at least, should make silenced all those who still argue that references in the Talmud are not directed to Jesus (and moreover TRUES!).."

As you can imagine that I am a Nazi sympathizer ??... My father was a partisan who fought against the Nazis and fascists. None of you hates the nazi-fascists more than I hate them! ..

However, I think understand that what I place here in the forum Infidels.org, create much disturbance, and this means that henceforth I will have much more time for my research and my studies.


Greetings to the whole company.

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