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Problems with Coins of the Jewish Revolts

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  by Damien F. Mackey   The City of Jerusalem by Colonel C. R. Conder (1909), stating that “the forgery of Jewish coins is still common in Palestine”, Conder wrote that “the theory according to which [Bar Kochba] struck coins in Jerusalem demands notice, in connection with the history of the city, but it appears to be one of those learned fallacies which are very long in dying”. ”     Introduction   Claude Reignier Conder is remembered fondly by the author as one who had, against the academic trend, recognised the story of the Jewish heroine, Judith, as being based on fact, and who had plausibly identified her home town of Bethulia. I wrote of this as follows in my article: Location of Judith’s Town of “Bethulia”. Part One: C. Conder’s Choice   https://www.academia.edu/27321406/Location_of_Judith_s_Town_of_Bethulia_._Part_One_C._Conder_s_Choice Bethulia itself, which Simons identifies with sheih shibil, I shall identify, foll...

Neanderthals as Antediluvians

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  by   Damien F. Mackey     “Dr Cuozzo's conclusions are that Neanderthals, the brutish 'cavemen' depicted in movies and textbooks, were post-Flood (Noah's Flood) humans”.     I have only very recently become aware of the extensive research on Neanderthal skulls by US orthodontist, Dr. Jack Cuozzo, and the important conclusions that he has reached. One writer who has given Cuozzo’s findings some positive airing is Creationist researcher and speaker, Anne Habermehl, whose bombshell article on Babel and the geography of early Genesis I had cause to draw attention to in my:   Tightening the Geography and Archaeology for Early Genesis   https://www.academia.edu/8608280/Tightening_the_Geography_and_Archaeology_for_Early_Genesis   Habermehl this time, in her article, “ Those Enigmatic Neanderthals. What Are They Saying? Are We Listening?”, written in consultati...