On Jesus the Christ and the Mystery Cults
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Similarities between Roman, Greek, and Etruscan mythologies
Roman Religion:
Parallel Mystery Cults
The Life Of Apollonius of Tyana
Mithraic Cults in Rome
Roman Religion Gallery
Greek hero cult
The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English
Social World of Jesus and the Gospels
Pagans & Christians: The Personal Spiritual Experience
The Concise Oxford Companian to Classical literature
The Power of Myth
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings
Role of the Roman Imperial Cult During the Augustan Age
Imperial cult (ancient Rome)
"Mark's Incipit and the Priene Calendar Inscription: From Jewish Gospel to Greco-Roman Gospel",
The Bride of Christ (Ephesians 5:22-33): a problematic wedding.
Roman Devotio
Decius is instructed to dress the toga praetexta and to cover his head, which, as we have already seen, are usual procedures of a standard sacrifice Romano Ritu. The only elements not found elsewhere are the use of a spear laid on the ground and the act of touching the chin. While the detail of the spear is surely specific of the devotio (for Livy says later that the spear could not be captured by the enemy), the act of touching the chin may or may not be specific of the devotio. In fact it resembles the adoratio (kissing of one's right hand used to salute a deity [Plinius, Historia Naturalis, 28.25]), and it might well be a variant. But it can also be a symbol that Decius was also an offering to the gods as he was about to give his life in the sacrifice.
Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice
Decius Mundus
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wayman29 (March 27, 2008 at 8:22 am)
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codej0 (March 27, 2008 at 4:27 am)
I say that the Gentiles had no frame of reference to the Jewish concepts taught by Paul or which they read in the Gospels, so they just viewed them through their eyes of their pagan mythos and got it wrong. Dead wrong!
ichomer (March 29, 2008 at 7:29 pm)
code, and I say you are using Talmudic texts which you don't understand and are applying them to the New Testament, and are getting it wrong, dead wrong. There are differnt types of annointing, for differnt offices. To be annointed a King, is differnt in context then annointing yeledim or giving a bracha.
codej0 (March 30, 2008 at 1:37 am)
I'm not saying that these schoolchildren were being anointed in order to become "the Anointed King over Yisrael." I'm stating that they were regarded as being "Anointed Ones" - "holy, sanctified, blessed, set apart," etc. Or do these concepts have nothing to do with becoming a Holy Nation and a Kingdom of Priests and a light to the Gentiles? If this was not the purpose, then give me the proof-text from the Rabbinic Literature, please.
ichomer (March 31, 2008 at 12:11 pm)
We are not talking about Rabbnic Literature, we are talking about the Tehilim, which far predates Mishna and the concept of Oral Torah. You seem to be grouping 3 sources togther, which are unrelated, with the sole purpose of bashing Gentile Christians(and I am guessing you most likely are one-if you are, stop hateing yourself)-my responce was to show that you are wrong for doing this and your thought seems confused.
codej0 (April 12, 2008 at 10:31 am)
Who brought up the Psalms?
So, you're telling me that the historical Yeshua and his worldview and his belief-system was not grounded in both the TaNaK and the Oral Traditions of his day and age?
Read Prof. Shmuel Safrai's article entitled, "Jesus and the Hasidim" and Dr. David Bivin's "Jesus and the Oral Torah: Written and Oral Torah" and Prof. David Flusser's "Excerpts from David Flusser's Jesus." The Oral Torah can illuminate the teachings & events recorded in the Gospels.
So, you're telling me that the historical Yeshua and his worldview and his belief-system was not grounded in both the TaNaK and the Oral Traditions of his day and age?
Read Prof. Shmuel Safrai's article entitled, "Jesus and the Hasidim" and Dr. David Bivin's "Jesus and the Oral Torah: Written and Oral Torah" and Prof. David Flusser's "Excerpts from David Flusser's Jesus." The Oral Torah can illuminate the teachings & events recorded in the Gospels.
codej0 (April 12, 2008 at 10:34 am)
P.S. I'm a student of comparative religions. I'm not a Christian or a Messianic or a Jew or a Muslim or any other religious label you want to pin on me. Comparative religions is my bias. What's yours?
goni27 (November 8, 2008 at 8:04 pm)
Hmm. Paul himself was from Tarsus so he had Graeco-Roman training and his works mirror stoic thought. AS for the gentiles, before christianity there were many gentiles that practiced Judaic rituals, these people were known as "God fearers". so it is possilbe that these Gentiles would have had some frame of reference to the jewish concepts.
codej0 (March 27, 2008 at 4:25 am)
Yeshua said, "Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven - Matt. 19:14. The school children were not only seen as being "Anointed Ones," they were anointed on the head by a "prophet," a disciple of the Sages, before leaving the House of Study & were given bread (or other food) to take home with them. That's how these plebeian Chasidic-Separatist sages got the Am Ha-Eretz parents of the kids to allow them to go to their schools.
codej0 (March 27, 2008 at 4:21 am)
Rab Judah said in Rab's name: What is meant by. Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm? Touch not mine anointed' refers to school children; 'and do my prophets no harm', to disciples of the Sages - Shab. 119a.
The Kingdom of Heaven is comprised of Anointed Ones (plural).
The Kingdom of Heaven is comprised of Anointed Ones (plural).