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• Political Power and Ideology in Early Jewish and Early Christian Literature (2011), conference
  ...eir views can be gathered from the great rhetorical images employed by the authors to manifest their conceptions on the nature of the relation between the dei ...Jewish uprising of 115-117 CE, which led to the widespread destruction of Egyptian Jewry, all tend towards an understanding by the Jewish community that they
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• Ninth Enoch Seminar (2017 Camaldoli), conference
  ...cient Jewish/Judean traditions and in light of broader influences, whether Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Greek, Roman, Persian, etc. As this meeting follows and buil *0: Authors of major papers
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• Tenth Enoch Seminar (2019 Florence), conference
  *0: Authors of major papers ...to Hermes is significant, possibly influencing James Bruce’s assessment of Egyptian origins.
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• Category:Maccabean Revolt (subject)
  ...The report sounds genuine, as it contradicts the view that the same Jewish authors previously offered of the Maccabean crisis as a religious persecution promo ...their enemies to side with the Ptolemies. After the failure of his second Egyptian campaign, Antiochus had a strategic interest in strengthening his military
  9 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 03:27, 27 July 2012
• Twelfth Enoch Seminar (2023 online), conference
  ...Mesopotamian astronomy, and the diachronic standardization of Greco-Roman-Egyptian zodiacal art probably account for this close connection. ...n magico-hemerological texts (Helen Jacobus). It can be assumed that their authors and their environment were also familiar with the ideas of astral magic abo
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• Category:Maccabees (subject)
  ...The report sounds genuine, as it contradicts the view that the same Jewish authors previously offered of the Maccabean crisis as a religious persecution promo ...their enemies to side with the Ptolemies. After the failure of his second Egyptian campaign, Antiochus had a strategic interest in strengthening his military
  257 members (1 subcategory, 9 files) - 13:22, 22 December 2020
• Category:Historical Jesus Studies
  ...onal specialists, as well as selected fictional and non-fictional works by authors who have influenced the development of scholarship in the field. ...[[Jesus]] -/- [[Andrew]] -- [[Annas]] -- [[Barabbas]] -- [[Caiaphas]] -- [[Egyptian Prophet]] -- [[Herod Antipas]] -- [[Herod the Great]] -- [[James]] -- [[Joh
  216 members (1 subcategory, 34 files) - 10:09, 12 September 2023
• Category:Enochic Studies--Pre-Modern
  '''Enochic Studies in Pre-Modern Times--Works and Authors''' ...gins of alchemy prepared the path for the identification of Enoch with the Egyptian god of knowledge wisdom and writing, "the three times great" Thoth, whom th
  1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 13:03, 17 August 2015
• Category:Letter of Aristeas (text)
  ...een deified, and yet they would never come to worship them. The makers and authors of these myths think that they are 138 the wisest of the Greeks. Why need w ...iping the one Almighty God above the whole 140 creation. Hence the leading Egyptian priests having looked carefully into many matters, and being cognizant with
  43 members (0 subcategories, 1 file) - 06:37, 14 June 2021
• Tacitus (sources)
  ...hey are wont to bury rather than to burn their dead, following in this the Egyptian custom; they bestow the same care on the dead, and they hold the same belie ...or any cloth stained by the menstrua of women. Such is the account of old authors; but those who know the country say that the bitumen moves in heaving masse
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• Category:Enochic Studies
  ...ibrary, Card. Sirletus. Urreta's position was popularized in the works of authors such as [[Samuel Purchas]] (Purchas His Pilgrimes, 1613), [[Nicolao Godinho ...r mythical figures of ancient wisdom. Kircher viewed him as the founder of Egyptian Wisdom and identified him with Hermes Trismegistus. The Jesuit [[Joachim Bo
  233 members (0 subcategories, 61 files) - 07:58, 13 May 2023
• Fifth Enoch Graduate Seminar (2014 Montreal), conference
  ...ir post-temple situation, like Moses spoke to the Israelites following the Egyptian exodus. Ezra takes the definitive role, the only prophet left, and sets up ...y interpreting 3 Maccabees as a product of the late Ptolemaic (100-30 BCE) Egyptian Fayum (Arsinoite nome). To do so, I illuminate the narrative’s antagonist
  53 KB (8,169 words) - 08:40, 26 July 2016
• 2020 Enoch Seminar Online
  ...maso] -- ''2. What was the nature and extent of Zoroastrian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Greco-Roman influences on the diverse notions of evil in Second Temple The last session of the first day focused on Mesopotamian, Zoroastrian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman sources of influence on Jewish literature in this period.
  101 KB (15,969 words) - 05:45, 3 July 2020
• Nero (sources)
  ...wish to throw living men to be torn to pieces and devoured by a monster of Egyptian birth, who would crunch raw flesh and anything else that was given him. Tra ...not soon seize upon Veii as well." He made no effort, however, to find the authors; in fact, when some of them were reported to the senate by an informer, he
  80 KB (14,740 words) - 08:06, 19 February 2012
• Tiberius (sources)
  3 - - 36. He abolished foreign cults, especially the Egyptian and the [[Jewish]] rites, compelling all who were addicted to such supersti ...ning that the grammarian Seleucus inquired of the imperial attendants what authors [[Tiberius]] was reading and so came primed, he at first banished the offen
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