Letter of Hadrian to Servianus in Historia Augusta Where is this from From Hadrian Augustus to Servianus the consul, greeting. "The land of Egypt, the praises of which you have been recounting to me, my dear Servianus, I have found to be wholly light-minded, unstable, and blown about by every breath of rumour. There those who worship Serapis are, in
The following work was written by the Hungarian Jewish scholar of Islam Ignaz Goldziher. Living during the period of German romanticism and unification of Germany, Prof. Goldziher was subjected to incredible anti-semitism and Teutonic supremacist abuse. The academy, being a product of European civilization, with the first university established at Bologna in 1093, and at Oxford in the 1200's, the
BY JACOB, SON OF AARON High Priest (HaKohen HaGadol) of the Samaritans at Shechem, Palestine Edited with an Introduction by WILLIAM ELEAZAR BARTON, D.D. Translated from the Arabic by Abdullah Ben Kori Introduction By William Eleazar Barton, D.D. THE author of the following history, Jacob, son of Aaron, is high priest of the Samaritans at Nablus, Palestine, the ancient
Modern religions are so-called "Scriptural Religions" - that is to say - depend on a written text of some kind as "holy scriptures" by which man is to know God. They are said to have been "revealed" religions, where "God revealed" himself, his path, his law, his truth, his orders... The problem with this is: if nobody could read and
Diodorus Siculus, "The Library of Antiquity" FRAGMENTS OF BOOKS XXXIV AND XXXV 1. When King Antiochus, says Diodorus, was laying siege to Jerusalem, the Jews held out for a time. But when all their supplies were exhausted, they found themselves compelled to make overtures for a cessation of hostilities. Now the majority of his friends advised the king to take
Before I analyze the etymology of the word Torah, which in the common dictionary meaning is said to come from the Proto-Semitic for "teach" or "instruct" and sometimes, "the law," I would like to direct anyone interested to an excellent book that will add to everyone's historical understanding and chronological spacial reasoning: Book Recommendation Anthony, David (2007) The Horse, the
The following quotes are from writers throughout the ages, church fathers, rabbis, ministers and theologians, in which they admit to the trick of religion or which suggest their collusion to put forward a deceptive system for purposes of social and political control. "I find no other means to prove myself to be impudent with success, and happily a fool, than
It may surprise you to learn that there was no such language in the ancient world called Hebrew. The Canaanites, from whom Jews emerge at least in some number, spoke a language called Canaanite, Canaan, Qana'an, or by the Greeks, Phoenician. In fact, the Torah itself tells us that the language it is written in is called SFT QNN or