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10-31-2002, 11:36 AM | #11 |
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There's only one solution: go and learn ancient
Hebrew yourself. Then come back next week and tell us which translation was correct. Cheers! |
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Nebuchadnezzar, that's a really cool name.
When I get another dog I'm going to name him Nebuchadnezzar. Here Nebuchadnezzar here boy good boy Nebuchadnezzar! |
10-31-2002, 05:33 PM | #14 |
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Offa;
Leonarde, "C'mon!! Tyre and Sidon were/are on the Med. Sea Coast (ie in today's Lebanon). They were not in "Judea". I can see not knowing, but why make up stuff?????" Offa, my dear Leonarde, I do not make things up. You are a prototype of the typical fundie. I read Josephus. Here is Josephus' Antiquities, Book 13, chapter 11, verse 312. That it was good for him to die now, since he had spoken falsely about Antigonus, who is still alive, and I see him passing by, although he had foretold he should die at the place called Strato's Tower that very day, while yet the place is six hundred furlongs off, where he had foretold he should be slain; and still this day is a great part of it already past, so that he was in danger of proving a false prophet. As he was saying this, and that in a melancholy mood, the news came that Antigonus was slain in a place under ground, which itself was called also Strato's Tower, or of the same name with that Cesarea which is seated at the sea. This event put the prophet into a great disorder. Offa, to update you on what had happened, Antigonas was slain in Jerusalem at a place called Strato's Tower (which is located on the Mediteranean (sp) Sea). Josephus is revealing a secret about multiple locations with the same name. [/I] Offa; here is a Josephus skit on Tyre; Book 12, chapter 4, verse 233. Moreover, he built courts of greater magnitude than ordinary, which he adorned with vastly large gardens. And when he had brought the place to this state, he named it Tyre. This place is between Arabia and Judea, beyond Jordan, not far from the country of Heshbon. And he ruled over those parts for seven years, Offa, now, my fundie dude, I do not make this stuff up. If you want a lesson in higher education, Josephus is telling you that Arabia is a pseudo identity as well as is the Jordan. The moral of the story is there is more than one Strato's Tower as well as more than one Tyre, Arabia, and Jordan. |
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Gee, there's a Bethlehem in Pennsylvania too (oops, I just revealed what a "fundie" rube I am!)!!!
But offa has the "secret knowledge" so let's pretend that no maps of 1st Century Palestine exist, okay?!? Cheers! |
10-31-2002, 06:20 PM | #16 |
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Anyone really interested in the location of Tyre
and Sidon should look at a Biblical atlas-type book (220.91 under the Dewey Decimal System). Cheers! |
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Does anyone remember that book called "The Bible came from Arabia"? Its been a while since I read it but the title tells you what the thesis was about!
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Offa;
Leonarde, "I repeat, I do not make this stuff up!" I am simply trying to enhance your ability to comprehend that the Judeo religion is a ruse. |
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