He's afraid of getting stoned for his/her lifestyle. It's ok to sodomize because it doesn't hurt anyone.
I have read one opinion on it that suggested his name was Zakariah based on some clues in the Gospels. The Dead Sea Scrolls used cyphers for leader‘s names likely to avoid charges of blasphemy. Pharisees were itching to throw stones so it was prudent not to hand them the stones they would use. Now, do you have something intelligent to say or are you going to make more vain comments and unfunny jokes?
What clues?
Interesting because it was the Sadducees that tracked down the early Christians and Saul/Paul was part of that.
Did you know Harvey?
For you, Nada! You are the enemy of Christ.
Your opinion is noted.
Nope.
Of the antichrist, yes.
As are yours. But Paul did work for the Sadducees, had people killed, etc.
I'm shocked.
By the way, why aren't the 490 years in Daniel allegorized, symbolic, since that's the approach you take for everything else?
It seems unlikely that Torah explicitly bans all sacrifices outside the Temple, because of the Hasidic Kapparot sacrifice of chickens.
Because they are compared in the chapter to Jeremiah's 70 years, which were literal?
Those aren't temple sacrifices and are merely done as a symbol. I don't do that.
OK. Thanks.
Jeremiah 29:10, 25:12; Isaiah 44:28-45:1,13; Ezra 1:2-3; 2 Chronicles 36:22-23; Daniel 9.
Once established, sacrifices were limited to Jerusalem and the altar at the temple.
Thanks. I meant my Hebrew question about Dan. 9:25 in Message #114:
Kaparot is controversial.
Besides the 70 years of Jeremiah being literal, another argument can be made based on whether you believe that Daniel was written in the 2nd century BC. In this second argument, one imagines that Daniel was written in response to the Maccabean period and rule of Antiochus the Seleucid ruler. Thus, one would look for a counting of years that ran to the Maccabean period. Daniel's Book actually gives several different countings of years for apocalyptic events and some of them, if treated literally, do count to the Maccabean period of the early 2nd century AD (Daniel Chapter 8 being one chapter). This second argument brings in the concept of countings of years being literal in Daniel.
I mostly wanted to look for a pretext to get people's attention to get back to the Dan. 9 context.
This is true, which is why I've said there are two anointed in Daniel 9. One after 7 weeks, and another after the other 62 weeks.
It's not a sacrifice. That's the difference.
There's a couple factors that give me pause however on this topic, one being the Jewish ancient translations putting 7 weeks with 62 weeks.
He repeats the verses three times, and then places his hands on the rooster’s head, in the manner used for a sacrifice in the Temple, and slaughters the rooster. It is customary to give the rooster to the poor to atone for one’s soul (by doing charity), and to throw the intestines on the roof to feed the birds (of prey).”
Seriously, Fellow Jews: Stop Swinging Live Chickens Around Your Head.
Kapparot is a customary Jewish atonement ritual practiced by some Jews between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Traditionally, a person waves a chicken around his or her head and recites a penitential text. The chickens are then donated to the poor. In Tur Orah Haim, laws of Kippur (chapter 605)...forward.com
Kapparot (Hebrew: כפרות, Ashkenazi transliteration: Kapporois, Kappores) is a customary atonement ritual practiced by some Jews on the eve of Yom Kippur. This is a practice in which a chicken or money is waved over a person's head and the chicken is then slaughtered in accordance with halachic rules.
Kapparot - Wikipedia
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Amram Gaon explains that male Jews took a rooster and female Jews a hen on the day before the holiday of Yom Kippur. He writes: “He places his hand upon the head of the rooster, as a sort of s’mikhah [the biblically required placing of one’s hands upon as animal that is being brought as a sacrifice in the Temple]. He lays his hands upon it and slaughters it immediately, following the rule prescribed for sacrifices, which is that the slaughtering of the sacrificial animal must follow immediately the ceremony of the laying of the hands.”
Why is Kapparot Seen as a Sacrifice?
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Originally, as previously stated, the ceremony was seen as a bribe that was offered to Satan, similar to the Azazel bribe described in Leviticus 16. A rooster was chosen for the bribe because (1) it was an animal that was not allowed to be sacrificed to God, and therefore an appropriate sacrifice for a devil, and (2) the masses thought that this bird resembled Satan: it had horns like Satan and its feet resembled the demon’s feet. The rooster was slaughtered with the sacrificial formality of laying of hands so that it would be accepted as a suitable sacrifice/bribe by Satan to induce the demon not to disparage Jews before God during Yom Kippur when Jews believed that their future fate was being determined by God in a heavenly judicial proceeding in which Satan served as prosecutor.
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Commenting upon the Babylonian Talmud, Hullin 95b, Asher ben Jehiel (known as Asheri, c. 1259–1328) states that the ancient custom of kapparot was to toss the entrails of the sacrificed rooster on the roof of one’s house. Like the water, the masses were convinced that the roof was a dwelling place of demons.
The Non-Jewish Origin of Kapparot
From the blog of Israel Drazin at The Times of Israelblogs.timesofisrael.com