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It's Divos who's doing the babbling. Divos has come out on a previous page with this cockamamie idea that Josephus's secular chronicle of Jewish history during the 1st century c.e. -- Josephus's Antiquities -- somehow inspired all the gospels and various scriptural texts in the NT. Divos...

AND WHY IS THERE NO SCRIPTURAL PARALLEL TO THIS JOSEPHUS PASSAGE? STOP PLAYING GAMES AND ADDRESS THIS N O O O O O O O O W !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Operacast

You really are a piece of work. Nowhere in your previous do you show me any Josephan reference to a Jacob, let alone a James. You're just throwing up dust like all mythers. You really don't have a clue about the Ananus/James passage in Josephus. It's obvious. STOP WASTING MY TIME. I won't...

You do not reference here one solitary mention of James by Josephus. You're just wasting our time. You obviously have no clue what I'm talking about. Why am I not surprised? Operacast

Your response shows you are clueless as to the content of Josephus's account of James and Ananus. You first say that Josephus inspired the gospels(!). But then, when I point out that Jos's account of James and Ananus in Antiquities 20 has no parallel anywhere in scripture, you respond with...

How come no scriptural account of James tallies with the Josephan account of Ananus and James? Operacast

Get real. It's preposterous to think one translator would reference whites and blacks and the other wouldn't. Clearly, those are two different originals. We don't need know-nothing speculations here. We need to hear from scholars who know something about the originals. WHERE'S MUSLIMWOMAN...

Not. You didn't read the OP. One version says "All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over a black nor a black has any superiority over a white – except by piety and good...

Oh? How come no scriptural account of James tallies with the Josephan account of Ananus and James? Operacast

Josephus's Antiquities is NOT a gospel. You're merely circulating deliberate misinformation for propaganda purposes. Shame on you. Josephus wasn't even a Christian believer, and in fact, the description of James as Jesus's brother (in Antiqs. XX) doesn't even tally with Christian scriptural...

I'm a textual scholar. I always worry. :-) Seriously, though, what would be useful is knowing if there's any scholarly consensus right now on the derivation of the specific versions (i.e., along the lines of -- say -- Mohammed's secretary is known to have assembled the version where M. says...

I'm puzzled. I've now seen two different versions of a key passage in Mohammed's farewell sermon. One version reads -- "All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over a black...

[I have submitted this posting on another board, and if "seconds" are not allowed here, my apologies in advance] I wonder if there is ever going to be some really ambitious novelist/epic-poet/film-TV-director/opera-composer -- whatever -- who might be up to constructing an entire multiple-part...

And that is one of the best reasons not to be fatalistic about the evils of social dysfunction, whether from the caste system or something else. Thank you. Essentially, we each of us still have free will. And while humanity is around, it always has a moral obligation to ameliorate suffering...

Thank you very much. This has certainly clarified your point. With respect to Krishna's statement here, it's regrettable that the earliest (known) moment of human irreligion appears to be the philosophy of Brihaspati roughly a century before Buddha. And ironically, the few words we have from...

I'm sorry: I admit I'm confused on one point here. You say here ==========> ====================> that Kali-yuga starts 2000 b.c.e. Yet later in your posting, you say it starts a thousand years earlier =============> Please, what marks the start of Kali-yuga, and how is it defined? Thank...

Please bump this. Thank you.

What you're describing is varna, the aptitude of different individuals for different things, the different aspects of aptitude that make up the whole human family as described in the Purusha Sukta. Varna in the P.S. acknowledges that different human beings have different aptitudes. It also...

Actually, in Buddha's referencing the notion of a "non-caste", we seem to see a clear implication that there are already a fair number of other caste distinctions at that time, else the category of "non-caste" could not conceivably arise. There has to be more than just one in order for the...

As follow-up to my previous inquiry, I have been studying the Suttas in the Sutta Nipata, generally viewed by modern scholars as among the earliest collections of Buddha texts. In the Vasala Sutta, Buddha remarks -- ""Not by birth is one a non-caste; not by birth is one a brahman...