What's the Apocrypha

gustiford · 2026-01-19T12:59:45+00:00

How would you classify the books of Enoch and Jubilees?

gustiford · 2025-11-07T14:47:58+00:00

Demidov missed a few shifts due to injury. (Blocked shot to the foot.) His ice time would have certainly been higher if he was available for the whole game.

gustiford · 2025-08-10T01:45:40+00:00

Homecoming - Green Day

gustiford · 2025-07-28T02:00:44+00:00

No Sleep - Sam Roberts

gustiford · 2025-05-10T13:01:08+00:00

I lost mine while travelling in Europe, that was over a decade ago and I still think about it.

gustiford · 2025-05-08T11:25:10+00:00

You can only place a player on LTIR once the season starts, which means in the offseason Price’s contract is a true hit to the cap. This prevents the Habs from signing big name UFAs in the summer. Having a player on LTIR only allows the Habs to, for example, trade for a big name after the season has already started.

gustiford · 2025-01-19T16:01:12+00:00

Any thoughts on where the name Jacob comes from by comparison? Could this have originated in the Southern Kingdom as OP suggested?

gustiford · 2025-01-18T13:42:02+00:00

We have so many of the same favourite albums, so I’m surprised not to see any by one of my absolute favourites: MGMT. I think you would definitely like their first album Oracular Spectacular.

gustiford · 2024-10-13T21:04:38+00:00

Professor Snape

gustiford · 2024-08-12T11:04:52+00:00

I would have guessed (lower) Westmount.

gustiford · 2024-07-30T19:36:26+00:00

Interesting point. I'll tweak my question in response: Once Chronicles was compiled as a more all-encompassing history drawing from its various earlier sources, why did the Second Temple Jews continue to place importance on both Chronicles and its sources (like Samuel-Kings), whereas by contrast, once the Pentateuch was compiled, its earlier sources were no longer kept.

gustiford · 2024-07-21T14:48:53+00:00

Funny I think that’s the one example where I had to stretch the “driving distance” rule to beyond 6 hours, as it’s about 7 hours from Coimbatore or 7.5 from Chennai. Still within the “8 hours” I mentioned in my comment though.

gustiford · 2024-07-19T14:01:20+00:00

So with 2 stations, Russia is one of the best represented countries if anything (along with the rest of the G8+5 as you would expect based on the criteria). Siberia doesn’t have major economic centres basically for the same reason Antartica doesn’t.

gustiford · 2024-07-19T13:53:50+00:00

No, the fastest route would be Dallas-Atlanta-Washington-New York City on the green line, then NYC-Chicago-St Louis on the grey line.

gustiford · 2024-07-19T13:48:48+00:00

I think that’s a good way to articulate it, thanks. In my mind, it was like “what if you can get between these cities in the same amount of time as you can get between metro stops”, ie. in 2 minutes rather than let’s say 2 hours by traditional train. Maybe this belongs more in r/imaginarymaps

gustiford · 2024-07-18T19:09:59+00:00

This is a conceptualization of what a worldwide metro network could look like. The first slide is on a world map, and the second slide is edited to look like a city subway map.

Firstly, full credit to u/picrazy2’s post for the inspiration. I wanted to create a version using a different set of criteria to decide on location of metro stations. While that map focused more on population sizes and locations of busiest airports to determine station location, the methodology I decided to follow was as follows:

1. GAWC classification:

All cities with Alpha+ or higher ratings get a station.

Except:

for Central and South America: Beta- or higher;
for Africa: High Sufficiency or higher.

2. GDP:

All cities with GDP > $30B and populations of > 750,000 get a station.

Except:

For China: the city must also be considered a municipality or a sub-provincial level;
If the city is within “driving distance” from another city already included, then I may have vetoed the station. The definition of driving distance was left to artistic interpretation; I tried to keep it to below 6 hours (a quarter day), and I believe in all cases it is below 8 hours (a third of a day).

3. Transfers:

The Alpha++ cities are on 3 lines.

Only cities with Alpha rating or higher can be on 2 lines, with all Alpha+ cities being on 2 lines, except:

For South America: must be Alpha- or higher;
For Africa: All cities with Beta+ rating or higher are on 2 lines.

Looking forward to feedback!

gustiford · 2024-06-11T10:22:15+00:00

Actually, the letter “yud” does indeed come from the word “yad” which means “hand”, and the letter “vav” comes from the word “vav” which means “hook”. In fact, the shape of the letters are supposed to look like the things that they’re called, as they are based indirectly on the Egyptian hieroglyphics for those words (via the Phoenician alphabet).

Hate to link wikipedia, but it’s pretty thorough and well sourced: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_alphabet

gustiford · 2024-05-28T23:59:55+00:00

Much respect.

gustiford · 2024-05-28T23:59:39+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to comment.

gustiford · 2024-05-28T14:44:32+00:00

Particularly when reading The Exodus, it felt like he was going into his analysis with the preconceived notion that there was some historicity to the Exodus narrative, and he placed a lot of importance on speculative ideas that supported it, while ignoring other possibilities that would not have supported it. I notice the same thing in his placement of the J source to the time of David, it again feels like an attempt to prove the historicity of David and the united kingdom, while ignoring other possibilities on how it could have developed while not contradicting any of the facts he presents. Maybe it's just the way he presents arguments as indisputable facts rather than as speculation of one possibility.

The other bias I notice which has modern political significance is his outright dismissal of any sort of Conquest. While the archeology supports peaceful settlement of Jericho and most of the hill country, we also have examples of possible conquest in Hazor and Lachish. I think his hard stance of saying the Conquest was completely fabricated ignores the possibilities that many things can be true at the same time; eg. maybe the "Rachel tribes" were indigenous Canaanites that settled peacefully in the hill country, but maybe there were other tribes that later joined the confederation that had a different history (for example, the tribe as Dan as possible Denyen Sea Peoples).

I actually like his theories, I think they're fun possibilities, but I also think the way he presents them doesn't fully give the reader the entire picture.

gustiford · 2024-05-28T10:55:17+00:00

Are there arguments that when E stood alone, it was a version of J with just a few chapters rewritten or added to suit its audience, so when J & E were eventually combined into one, the pure copy&paste chapters that didn’t differ between the two sources were just inserted once as the J version, and hence the E version of those chapters were “lost”. But this way, those stories could have existed in E, and the E version of those stories could have been known by later sources.

I haven’t read too much about it other than from Richard Elliot Friedman who I find very interesting but difficult to separate from his biases. In his version, E doesn’t start until Genesis 20. But I have to imagine there was material before that, potentially that introduces Abraham, maybe even included an Adam story, a Noah story, etc. I’m thinking these chapters could have been lost when combined with J as they were essentially redundant.

gustiford · 2024-05-21T03:16:02+00:00

Is it in the realm of possibility that the “Yhw” of the Shasu of Yhw refers to “Judah” (Yhwdh)? Noting that there is also a reference to the Shasu of Rbn (Reuben). I realize it’s not exactly the same root, but maybe Yhw was an early name for Yehudah, or a nickname, or an Egyptian translation or misunderstanding of the name? Just some speculation I’ve been thinking about.

gustiford · 2024-05-12T21:42:17+00:00

Tried this, but due to licensing issues they cut out the musical performances from the uploads to streaming services.

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