Category: Jewish history
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Dr. Dustin Smith on the Embodiment of Wisdom
Dr. Dustin Smith has recently released two videos regarding the portrayal of God’s wisdom in Jewish literature, and how it relates to the famous prologue of the Fourth Gospel. I’ve found Smith’s work especially accommodating to my own position on John 1:1-14, and I believe his evidence is worth considering. As I laid out in…
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Artapanus and the Egyptian Moses: Jewish Syncretism in Alexandria
In the study of historical Gnostic religions, one is inevitably drawn towards the period of Graeco-Egyptian syncretism occurring in the wake of Alexander’s Egyptian conquest (c. 300 BCE). My upcoming (and currently under-wraps) research project has been especially dependent upon such study. One surprising element I have regularly encountered in this research is the participation of…
Kegan Chandler, PhD 