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  1. John D. Brey

    "Priapus in a Cucumber Patch."

    Professor Boyarin's statement lends itself to this study. The Jew is seeing God when he's looking at a body part. The part he's looking at when he spies God is none other than the fleshly analogue to Priapus; and more than that, when he's allowed to look at this body part (the Talmud forbids...
  2. John D. Brey

    "Priapus in a Cucumber Patch."

    . . . It's more likely the 99.9% who can't spread the legs of their ears to receive the revelation in the seeder will consider the name of the thread the basis for an acronym labeling the inspiration for the thread: PCP. :) John
  3. John D. Brey

    "Priapus in a Cucumber Patch."

    The Milstein Edition, The Prophets (Isaiah 1:8), record that Rabbi Hirsch differentiates between "daughter of Jerusalem," versus "daughter of Zion." According to Hirsch, the latter refers to the temple, while the former refers to the nation. This being the case, the "Branch of Zion" (the Branch...
  4. John D. Brey

    Isaiah 1:8.

    The first statements are difficult to parse. I don't think those cells retain memory. I think they access memories stored safely outside the body. That way if the body is blown up by a bomb lobbed from some hummus-eating Palestinian the memories are safe and sound awaiting uploading to the new...
  5. John D. Brey

    "Priapus in a Cucumber Patch."

    The metaphor of a "Priapus in a cucumber patch" comes from the apocryphal Letter of Jeremy alleged to have been written by the prophet Jeremiah. Verse 70 of the letter (where the metaphor is found) relates directly to Jeremiah 10:5, a passage paralleling Isaiah 44:10-20, both of which deal with...
  6. John D. Brey

    Isaiah 1:8.

    There's a mythological idea that's come down through philosophy as the "Sea of Lethe": i.e., that we're all thrown into the sea of forgetfulness such that though we're conceived all-knowing, we forget it all at birth and must relearn it. Plato showed something of this in a number of his Socratic...
  7. John D. Brey

    Isaiah 1:8.

    . . . Similarly, one might read the Gospel of Thomas 77 to be saying that when the Roman cleaved the Branch on the branch, the I Am was there. But since He unleashed his power at an unknown hour that no one knew (Dylan), the I Am was lain in a grave/sepulcher, such that if you move the stone...
  8. John D. Brey

    Isaiah 1:8.

    Quid est veritas? Truth isn't an inductive phenomenon. Which means the moment you collect it, and hold it for more than a day (except on the eve of Sabbath) it rots and turns into maggots or serpents. We could paraphrase the Gospel of Thomas 77 (quoted earlier in the thread) to say cleave...
  9. John D. Brey

    Isaiah 1:8.

    Excellent point. Problem being the relationship between the allegorical/metaphorical, versus the "real." Israel, Judaism, Jews, don't think of themselves as mere "signs" signifying something universally real outside of Israel, Judaism, and the Jews. And imo, they're correct. But that poses a...
  10. John D. Brey

    Isaiah 1:8.

    Contextual exegesis of the verse (some of it still forthcoming) implies that the Hebrew word בת translated "daughter," should instead be translated "branch." Though the consonants בת usually refer to a "daughter," nevertheless the lexicons all note that it is in fact read, in the plural (נוות)...
  11. John D. Brey

    Isaiah 1:8.

    You seem to be misreading what I said (or I said it wrong)? I'm convinced the city in Isaiah 1:8 is Nazareth. But the normal Hebrew spelling of Nazareth is נצרות (nun-tsaddi-reish-vav-tav) while the word found in the manuscript is נצורה (nun-tsaddi-vav-reish-heh). As found in Isaiah 1:8, the...
  12. John D. Brey

    Isaiah 1:8.

    You're onto one of the most important and unknown secrets in the scripture, a secret that might secrete into the fundamentals of this thread if it reaches its mark. In the same location you spied the PDF you refer to, there are eleven essays on Nehushtan. Nehushtan is not only the same rod...
  13. John D. Brey

    Isaiah 1:8.

    A second footnote would note that the word being interpreted "Nazareth," as in the "city of Nazareth" (בעיר נצורה), appears to be a copyist's error and an incorrect form (of נצרות). Isaiah 1:8 is the only place in the Tanakh this strange form is found. Part and parcel of the likelihood the vav...
  14. John D. Brey

    Isaiah 1:8.

    The key here, is partly verse nine, which claims if not for the refuge of the city of Nazareth, all of Israel would be annihilated like Sodom and Gomorrah. The Hebrew has the word "city" before the word "Nazareth" so that at best it would be "besieged city." Context implies that the city is none...
  15. John D. Brey

    Isaiah 1:8.

    I don't see the consonants nun-tsadi-reish נצר anywhere in Habakkuk 2:1? Nor in Habakkuk 2:4-6? John
  16. John D. Brey

    Isaiah 1:8.

    As a footnote to the idea that without Nazareth Israel would have been left like Sodom and Gomorrah, we have the irony that although the Christians have been antiSemitic from the start, nevertheless, without them, and their unique brand of antiSemitism, all of Israel would have been annihilated...
  17. John D. Brey

    Isaiah 1:8.

    ונותרה בת–ציון כסכה בכרם כמלונה במקשה בעיר נצורה And the daughter of Zion is left as a sukkah in a vineyard, a guard house in a cucumber patch: the city of Nazareth. Isaiah 1:8. The last two words in Isaiah 1:8 (בעיר נצורה) speak of the "city of Nazareth." The city is noted in this, the very...
  18. John D. Brey

    Isaiah 1:8.

    The Christian Messiah, so Judaism points out, is nowhere spoken of in the Tanakh. And yet in Isaiah 48:6, and this according to none other than the great Nachmanides, Isaiah reveals, though it's still "hidden" from Judaism, the name and face of God. Nachmanides (Ramban) connects Isaiah 48:6 with...
  19. John D. Brey

    Isaiah 1:8.

    Those familiar with the Oracle at Delphi ---and the stories related to it ----are aware that as history records it, the authentic oracles of the ancient world possessed preternatural powers that truly boggle the mind. Often times the oracle would give names that were impossible for the oracle to...
  20. John D. Brey

    Zechariah's Chiastic-Christology.

    The information above was composed in the thread on Exodus 34:7. But it stands alone and can be lifted up as a remarkable example of what's often hidden just beneath the surface of prophetic utterance throughout the Tanakh. In Zechariah 6:12, the prophet not only says that the future Messiah...
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