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Alcimus, the Aaronic priest in Maccabees, may be, in a streamlined history, Joiakim

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    by   Damien F. Mackey       “They trusted Alcimus, who was a priest descended from Aaron, and they thought he would not cause them any harm”.    I Maccabees 7:14     Introduction   The name Alcimus is probably a Greek rendering of the Hebrew name Eliakim, which is a variant of Joiakim (Joakim). In the Book of Judith, the high priest of an earlier era is variously named, Joakim (Judith 4:6 NRSV) and Eliachim (4:5 Vulgate).   And, in the name Eliakim, we can clearly discern the variant (Grecised) name, Alcimus.   Now if Alcimus was, indeed, the son of the former high priest, Jesus (Joshua), then he was the son of a truly esteemed man. For this Jesus was, so I have argued, the great and learned Ezra who lived a very long life.   Ezra is famously a man who was miraculously plucked from the Burning Fiery Furnace of the Chaldean king, Nebuchednezzar – thereby saved from certain death. ...
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If you can’t see the sea, then the tomb can’t be Maccabee

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  480 × 360 by   Damien F. Mackey     There may be a reminiscence of the Maccabean tomb in the story of the priest, Jonathan ben Uzziel, a semi-legendary character of whom little is known.     Archaeologists in their enthusiasm for the location, Horbat Ha-Gardi, at Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut in central Israel, as being, potentially, the site for the tomb of Jonathan the Hasmonaean, priest-brother of Judas Maccabeus, and of Simon, who built the elaborate tomb, are making some significant geographical (topographical) mistakes, so I believe.   One of these is, as I have insisted in my article:   Must look elsewhere for Maccabee town, Modein   (3) Must look elsewhere for Maccabee town, Modein   that the grand tomb had to be in the sight of sailors in the sea (I Maccabees 13:29):   “… and beside the suits of armor carved ships, so that they could be seen by all who sail the sea”.    This de...
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Venerating the god Sin common to Nebuchednezzar’s main alter egos

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  480 × 360 by   Damien F. Mackey       Some of my major alter egos for King Nebuchednezzar ‘the Great’ share in common a passionate, even fanatical, devotion to the moon god, Sin.   Recalling my alter egos for King Nebuchednezzar   In the course of various articles, now, I have proposed these alternative ‘faces’ for the Chaldean king, Nebuchednezzar ‘the Great’.   The great king, Nebuchednezzar , so-called II, was, all at once:   (firstly folding Middle Babylonia into Neo Babylonia)   1.        Nebuchednezzar so-called I :   The 1100 BC Nebuchednezzar   (3) The 1100 BC Nebuchednezzar     (Folding Middle Assyrian)   2.       Ashur-bel-kala :   Ashur-bel-kala as Ashurbanipal   (3) Ashur-bel-kala as Ashurbanipal   3.       Ashurnasirpal :   A...
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