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From: deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Do Zeus and Jupiter derive from `light' ?
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In article <09JUL95.11186536.0031@music.mus.polymtl.ca>,
Alexander Kiefer  <KA00@music.mus.polymtl.ca> wrote:
>In article <DBD7Gn.3HL@midway.uchicago.edu> deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff) writes:

>>For the record, "Yussef" and "Yussif" are both romanisations of the
>>Arabic "Yusuf", which is a borrowing from Hebrew "Yosef."  And there is
>>no historical reference to a Messianic figure of this name.  There *is*
>-----------------------------------------------------------
>
>There is absolutely no *historical* evidence to *any* messianic
>"figure". All it is just faith!

	I'm sorry, are you saying that there is no historical evidence
for Muhammad, the Bab, the Ba'al Shem Tov, "the Younger Brother of
Jesus" (both of them), and so on, or are you saying that none of these are
"messianic figures"?  Please clarify your statement.

>>one to a certain "Yeshua ben Panthera" who was executed by the Romans
>
>Certainly not a messianic "figure".

But a historical one who may be the basis for a messianic figure.



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