Peter Kirby

Toto,

The Greek of Strabo refers to the "Albanians" with the Greek word *)albanoi\.

best,
Peter Kirby

Toto

So Strabo's Albania is not the modern Albania. It seems to be described <a href="http://77.1911encyclopedia.org/A/AL/ALBANIA.htm" target="_blank">here</a> as "a district in the eastern Caucasus." No reason for them to speak Greek.

I'm still waiting for someone to link "tekton" and "teacher".

Peter Kirby

Toto writes: So Strabo's Albania is not the modern Albania. It seems to be described here as "a district in the eastern Caucasus." No reason for them to speak Greek.

Thanks for the info. Of course my main point is that the twenty-six tongues of Strabo's Albanians were probably not Greek dialects.

Toto writes: I'm still waiting for someone to link "tekton" and "teacher".

You may be waiting for a long time.

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Peter Kirby

Answerer

Sorry for the late reply as I just had an intense weekend. Anyway, I'm no expert in language but just happens to get curious and read some books and websites on some translation errors.
If I'm not wrong, the word 'Tekton' actually translate to the English word 'craftsman' which could equally be re-defined as learned man or teacher during the ancient times(a better example will be found in the Freemasonry guilds in Europe). Furthermore, given the fact that Jesus's father was of loyal status(even though powerless) and his relationship with the Nazarenes, I found it hard to believe that he had to live out his life just as a skilled but ordinary carpenter during that time.

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Geoff Hudson

Eisenman has a habit of referring to the Talmud and other Jewish literature without giving references. On page 218 of JTBOJ he refers to "The most famous of these stories about Jacob of Kfar Sechania in the Talmud" with no reference.
Does any one know if the Talmud is on-line?

Geoff