Posted on 12/12/2013 2:13:36 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The city of Caesarea has been in the news recently, for the lavish lifestyle of certain contemporary residents. Yet the people of the seaside city also seem to have lived high on the hog in ancient history. Archaeologists have found surprisingly detailed records of sumptuous eating, drinking, dressing and housing customs of the wealthy though it seems women only got to partake of the luxury within the home.
Rich then was like rich now a matter of means. In a discussion on who is rich in the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Shabbat (25b), Rabbi Meir simply said a truly wealthy person is satisfied with whatever he has. Unarguable, that. The famous Rabbi Akiva said wealth was having a pleasant wife (and he should know). But the more prosaic Rabbi Tarfon defined wealth as 100 vineyards, 100 fields and 100 servants.
The practical Rabbi Yosi defined a rich person a whoever has a toilet near his table. At Sepphoris in the Galilee, archaeologists discovered just such a toilet near the dining hall of a wealthy Roman villa.
In fact the Jewish sages themselves were usually wealthy, which allowed them to ponder the fine points of Jewish law all day long....
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
Thanks. I could not recall ANYTHING being mentioned in that passage about a woman’s hair...and sure enough it is NOT mentioned.
Whoops, three in a row, just catching up. Make that four.
It’s been a long long time since I’ve studied the bible. It is highly probable that I did confuse Nazarene with nazarite.
Which part isnt in the Bible?
Actually, Jesus had a thin braid on the back of his head. The Shroud of Turin’s image is of a man with long hair. In fact, the image shows one long braid down the man’s back. But that doesn’t mean the image isn’t of Jesus. Jewish law allowed an exalted teacher to wear such a braid so that others recognized the teacher as a special rabbi. It’s difficult to know the true length of Jesus hair.
“No, it sounds like a Jewish person trying to be polite to his fellow Freepers who happen to be Christians in a theological discussion I was pinged to, and would not join otherwise, as Orthodox Jewish people have a profoundly different view regarding the Nazarine than you.”
Seems hypocritical, as you just got done blaming Christianity for atrocity committed against Jews. How is that polite? Do you think that we want to kill you?
Have a nice Sabbath.
“Have a nice Sabbath.”
I guess trolling is allowable on the sabbath, eh?
1 Chr 11:10
You totally misunderstood what I said. I said that it's a parable. The hair represents the knowledge of Christ for a woman. I didn't say men with long hair are gay, I said if the fallen angels are attracted to a man he is probably gay. They like women.
Gen 6 is clear to me. The sons of God saw the daughters of Adam and found them attractive and had kids who became the mighty men of old (not normal humans). These offspring filled the world with wickedness and so God flooded the earth to kill them all. Why flood the earth to kill normal humans and then immediately tell Noah to replenish the earth? God would just have to flood the earth again. No, these were fallen angels.
Women should keep their head covered with Christ to keep this from happening again. The fallen angels are coming coming back.
Like I said, it's a deep study. You have to know the parables to equate hair with Christ.
You said what I said was mythology. See my previous post, it happened and will happen again. They will be giving and taking in marriage just as in the days of Noah. See Matt 24:38
How did you think that even came close?
And I didn't say "possessing" them, it was sex.
I meant Corinthians, not Chronicles. How would hair or a cloth keep a fallen angel from being attracted to a woman? If a woman covers her head with Christ, then she knows what the angels want and can fend them off through the power of Christ. Christ gave us power over the demons (fallen angels). Luke 10
The imaginary connection you made about hair and demons and you insisted it was in Genesis 6...
Also, demons or evil spirits are never referred to as angels in the New Testament.
"My post has nothing to do with Jesus. It was a response to Absaloms long hair mentioned in the post I responded to. Period."Then why did you reply to this thread on "long hair Jesus" and mention Sampson:
"Do the story of Samson ring a bell?"That's what threw me off...
This isn't my major peeve regarding misrepresentation of biblical facts. It's pretty insignificant in the grand scheme of doctrine.
But, for everyone who has an interest in what the scriptures say about the appearance of Jesus - they already know the excellent points that Freepers documented in previous posts:
Post #23 from Amendment10 quoting Isaiah "is no beauty that we should desire him" andpost #4 from RaceBannon that Paul said long hair is a shame to a man
plus post #25 from Jewbacca citing numerous scriptures
“Then why did you reply to this thread on “long hair Jesus” and mention Sampson:”
I often read threads without commenting if the title intrigues me. It’s called curiosity. Sometimes what other people have to say is quite interesting.
In this case, if you read the post I was responding to, it was about Absalom’s long hair. My response was a bit tongue in cheek. Like, “Do the name Ruby Begonia ring a bell?”
And that is all I have to say about that.
If you think the bible tells you to get a crew cut then go ahead and get one. See if I care. :^)
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