Again, I am not interested in the unsupported opinions of anonymous posters here. Your comment that "Iabe has a link to Jove" is total nonsense. They don't sound or look similar or alike. And OBTW I am not aware of anything that I have posted which you have proven false. If Gordon is such a great scholar quote him or quit mentioning him.
When I post I am not posting for your benefit alone but also for anyone who is interested in the topic.
Research it yourself then instead of using a 120 year old source that has been proven wrong since it was published lol! I did not make it up! They are exactly alike! What do you think Yeshua meant in John 4:22? I HAVE quoted Gordon and others NUMEROUS times, but you will not accept it LOL! None of your posts are benefiting anyone but you lol! BTW, Theodoret didn’t even know Hebrew.
Josephus Flavius, “Antiquities of the Jews,” written in the 1st century, Book 12, section 258. “So they sent ambassadors,” meaning the Samaritans sent ambassadors, “to Antiochus, and an epistle, whose contents are these.” So we have a letter that the Samaritans sent sometime around 168 or 175 BC, some time in that period, to Antiochus Epiphanes IV. BTW, the Seleucid Emperor, his name was Antiochus Epiphanes. What does Epiphanes mean? It means, “the one who reveals himself”. He claimed to be a god, Antiochus. So they write to Antiochus an epistle, whose contents are these: “To King Antiochus, the god, Epiphanes,” meaning, “the one who reveals himself,” “a memorial from the Sidonians who live at Shechem,” meaning straight off they’re saying, “We’re not Israelites. We just live here.”
Our forefathers, upon certain frequent plagues,” mentioned in 2 Kings 17, “and as following an ancient superstition, had a custom of observing that day which by the Jews is called the Sabbath.” In other words, what they’re saying is, “We only worship Shabbat because we were attacked by lions, and it was the Jewish superstition, and this isn’t really something we believe in, we’re just doing it.” So according to Josephus, this is a letter that was sent sometime around 168 BC. “And when they had erected a temple at the mountain called Gerizim, though without a name they offered upon it the proper sacrifices.” What does that mean, “without a name?” What that means, “without a name…” Verse 261 in Josephus “We therefore beseech thee, our benefactor and savior…” referring to the king, “to give order to Apollonius, the Governor of this part of the country, and to Nicanor, the procurator of your affairs, to give us no disturbance, nor to lay our charge what the Jews are accused for, since we are aliens from their nation and from their customs.” “But let our temple, which at present has no name at all, be named the Temple of Jupiter Hellenius.” The Samaritans from Josephus rededicated their temple to Jupiter. Well, what’s Jupiter called in Latin? In Latin he’s not called Jupiter. First of all, there’s no J in Latin. In Latin, he’s called “Yupiter”. . So today in Latin they say, “
Yov”, or “
Jov,” for Jupiter, and that’s where you get in English where Sherlock Homes says, “Oh, by jove. I think I’ve got it.” He’s saying, “By Jupiter.”