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carpetbagger

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5. They didn't speak Lithuanian in Galilee.

Wed Nov 15, 2023, 01:20 AM

Nov 2023

Lithuanian is more closely related to Sanskrit and English than to Hebrew (or Aramaic), which is not Indo-European.

Magdalene means "of Magdala". Magdala is a village on Lake Galilee, it comes from the Hebrew word for tower (migdal), and the Aramaic name meant "tower of fish", i.e. it was named after piles of salted fish.

I am not fluent in Hebrew, but the closest Biblical Hebrew words for distribute and magic are chilek and kesheph.

Mary Magdalene was one of the leaders, so maligned by patrician history that her story, and with that the story of Jesus, is forever lost, but I see nothing in the gospels or in archaeology to say that they were a band of sorcerers.

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They didn't speak Lithuanian in Galilee. carpetbagger Nov 2023 #5

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