re: In case you missed it (like I did), archaeologists discovered ancient city of Sodom

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Barabbas was Yeshua bar Abbas (Yeshua, son or Abbas) in many Greek transcripts.

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And Bar Abba (in Aramaic) means “son of the father”. So, the criminal to be executed with Jesus the Messiah, was Jesus son of the Father.

Weird, until one realizes this is a re-telling of the story of the day of atonement (absent from 2nd temple Judaism, but central to first temple theology). The day of atonement practices is detailed in Leviticus (but absent from Deuteronomist literature). According to the Deuteronomist, Yahweh told Moses that no one could atone for the sins of another - that each person was responsible for their own sin. That is counter to Jesus’ message of “taking away the sins of the world”. On the day of atonement, two identical unblemished goats were selected to be sacrificed. One goat was sacrificed to free the people of sin, and the other was released back into the wild to carry those sins away from Israel. Jesus the messiah was the sacrificial goat, while Jesus bar Abbas carried those sins away to AzazEl.

Who was AzazEl? He was an another Elohim (divine spirit, lesser god, demon) whose domain was the wilderness and chaos. All detailed very nicely in Leviticus chapter 16.

Thanks for bringing up this subject Hank.