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B. Ing. | MA Biblical Studies (no thesis) | Revisionist historian | Author: An Everlasting Quid Pro Quo | Thriller in progress: The Inheritance of the Dead

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Every spring the Easter–Ishtar debate resurfaces — and every spring it gets dismissed before it gets examined. The meme is wrong. But the question behind it may not be.

I've been looking at the structural and linguistic evidence connecting Ishtar's mythological role — death, descent, and return at the threshold of spring — to the ritual complex that became Passover and Easter. The link, if it exists, runs not through a phonetic coincidence but through a Mesopotamian ritual specialist called the pâqidu, a Hebrew root that may have been misread for two millennia, and a goddess whose most important function has been consistently underplayed.

The piece is here: https://t.co/zCWxhif1c2

Genuinely curious what serious scholars make of the paqad hypothesis. @maklelan @ProfFrancesca @SethLSanders

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@maklelan Thanks for setting the record straight. Joel is such a pathetic misogynist…

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Dan, how long before scholars seriously engage with the possibility that YHWH emerged from an earlier Baal-Yah tradition, with Baal later removed from the name? If Beliya preserves the Akkadian "my lord," and Asherah derives from a deified Sarah (Aluf Sarah), then "b'l YH W b'lH" may preserve the original pair. Abraham's Lord and Sarah were deified and, under the auspices of El, became part of the Divine Council behind Israel's origins (Asherah-El). Everything else follows naturally...

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@TheSkepticalHe1 Listen to Jesus 😇. The crank is a patch to hide a more fundamental issue - not a fix. 😈

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@TheSkepticalHe1 Yes, it is dead. People aren’t curious anymore. Most are just here for ego, engagement, and likes.

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I’m writing a historical thriller that develops a new hypothesis about who wrote Mark, when it was written, for whom, and perhaps more importantly, why. While it’s a novel, it presents what I believe is the most coherent hypothesis addressing the major questions surrounding the historicity of Jesus and the origins of the four Gospels.

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@JoelMCurzon We’re guilty too. The last 50 years have been dominated by political correctness and the idea that every belief deserves automatic respect. That created a culture where even obviously irrational claims are treated as untouchable.

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@maklelan Sanger’s such a snowflake. He’s the only person who’s ever blocked me on Twitter just because I questioned one of his posts. Not worth engaging with someone who can’t handle disagreement...

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@KR3Wmatic Because the evidence shows Abraham's Lord was a Mesopotamian king:
https://t.co/3vgXistx0G

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@TheSkepticalHe1 When are you releasing E71?

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@RightWingWatch “We should only support free speech when it lets me speak freely. But people who disagree with me shouldn’t have free speech because it hurts my fragile ego.” - says Mr. Moron

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@M_Eashoo @TheSkepticalHe1 Great to see that you read it 'Yava.' Most people read it 'Yaweh,' but Yava is most likely... but would you know why?

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@TheSkepticalHe1 Unless you ‘select’ your reading of history, there is little chance you can remain a fundamentalist…

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@TheSkepticalHe1 Looking forward to it!

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https://t.co/F1pcZ0ivfq

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@TheSkepticalHe1 But… Your god looks like a powerul king! ☺️

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@TheSkepticalHe1 My world, exactly. This place is an echo chamber with zero curiosity. 😔

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I’m not a conservative, and I’m not arguing for Mosaic dictation. But I would gladly argue that the Torah is substantially older than many current late-composition models allow. The linguistic layers, covenant structures, legal forms, and deep ANE parallels point to traditions rooted far earlier than the Persian period. I’m writing extensively on this topic.

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@TheSkepticalHe1 Nah. That wouldn't fly in an article. Just bits & pieces to establish the groundwork to build upon.

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@TheSkepticalHe1 It's on the back burner for now. I am working on two critical articles that will hopefully go through peer-review process. 😊