Pesach and Matzo

For Americans the upcoming few days will be difficult such that I deem unwise (say) to drink them out. So I am taking this time to revisit the two Darius "pesach" pages. Because the Jews in Darius' fifth year, although noting Pesach, did not relate this to The Unleaven. Darius had a different holiday for that, in Nisan: the new-year holiday.

Pesach was a Psalm 91 thing, a ritual to ward off the divs (as a Persian would name them). 11Q11 will collect quite a bit of these.

Another interesting substitution - before the Ebionites and saint John would think of it - is the replacement of animal sacrifice with this bread. I read here that this was done first in Iran before the Jews, and not necessarily their Christian subsects, thought of it.

I am come to -

h/t to ZR's Carnival: Gathercole presents Jesus as Herald. That is: not as Christ.

Gathercole uses an Armenian translation of a misattributed homily. Which is all manner of problematic but too-often As Good As We Get. I'm not here to dispute Gathercole's support for its antiquity. I am come to dispute its relevance.

See what I did there? I just announced my intention to deliver a message. I didn't even claim to be an angel. You don't have to be an angel to announce the start of a message. You don't even have to be a herald.

Jesus does not have to be an angel sent from Heaven; although admittedly saint Mark - by starting his mission at the Jordan - rather implies this. But still, "I am come" presupposes that Jesus is not himself the King. Or at least has not yet revealed that He is; a skeptic would argue the Messianic Secret has not been revealed to Jesus yet.

Another skeptic may wonder if the ghost of John the Baptiser be lurking behind these accounts. The Infancy Gospel ascribed to Thomas is lately mused to be about John, but redacted to refer to Jesus.

BACKDATE 11/5

Self-healing solar

Solestial has a solar panel as will self-heal at 65° C, on up. That is good for inner-system operations where hooked to a radiator; just turn down the radiator and the panel should just ... get there. Or at least the other operations, when losing heat, can shift to using the panel as a radiator for a bit.

Flexibility will help too.

HATTIP: ToughSf 11/5.