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Rosie wants to claim Jews didn't have priests. lol and of course inject some inane gibberish about Da Evul Catlicks' no matter what the topic is.
as for the Peanut Gallery, re Daniel, it is one of only two books written substantially in Aramaic, up to chapter 7, and a clear division from the rest of the book. From 7 on, the Apocalypses section, the stories are obviously about the Maccabean period and Antiochus IV.
Chapter 8 is an allegory for the transition from Persian to Greek rule, and mostly concerned with Antiochus IV's 'helenization'; 'the little horn' is code for Antiochus throughout the book.
Chapter 9 is a revision of Jeremiah's predictions re Babylonian captivity, Jeremiah 25:11-12 and 29:10.
The apocalypse of chapters 10 through 12 are the military campaigns between the Ptolemies and Seleucids for the control of Palestine, in detail. And, the prophecies didn't come to pass as 'Daniel' claimed they would. It was written much later than 400 B.C., when the main bulk of prophetic literature, aka the 'Writings', was considered 'closed'.
Pic suffers from the CATECHISM PHENOMENON (an illness about which I learned MANY YEARS ago from a "DIVINITY STUDENT" from Seton Hall college). He imagines that the people called "priests" in the Jewish social
structure are something like the Medieval catholic priests who controlled and
extorted the masses. In the minds of the catechism afflicted----the jewish "priests" are confused with the Pharisees, tax collectors and rich guys who "hated" Jesus-----and were the official crucifiers of the realm. Just what
was the Sanhedrin----also confuses him
More rubbish from Rosie. Priests is a generic term, but Rosie is barely literate and doesn't know that sort of stuff. And Pharisees sect is a late development and have nothing to do with most of Jewish history until a couple or three centuries before Jesus time.
Roise's hole in her head is leaking again.
Pic remains confused. For elucidation----talk to a bright catholic child---or---for that matter, a catholic divinity student and ask a simple question---
"WHO IN ROMAN CONTROLLED JUDEA---2000 years ago "hated" Jesus
and why? " As to the "Pharisees" I would not style them a sect----but will accept that PIC thinks so. Their ideology is very old-----longer than 200 years BC ----in fact it would be logical to call EZRA AND JEREMIAH functionally "Pharisees" and even Daniel.------More importantly; JESUS WAS DEFINITELY a "PHARISEE" The person NOT a Pharisee in the
"passion play" ------is, clearly, NOT the "high priest"-----CAIPHAS.
John the Baptist was probably associated with one of the "monastic"
type groups that hung out in the remote places-----but consistent with
"PHARISEE" The ideology of Pharisees REMAINS a force----which is
why capital punishment is excluded from present day Israeli jurisprudence.
(try swallowing that one---Pic dear----IL PAPA just declared himself a
"PHARISEE------sorta...)