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Thanks Martijn. You bring up several things: With regard to Tacitus, and the possibility of it being an interpolation: There are some strange elements in Tacitus' passage. For instance, he calles Pilate "procurator", although his actual title was prefect. Also the name "Christus"...

Hi, I recently realized that the link to my article "Jesus and the 'Egyptian Prophet'" had stopped working when my webpage (lenaeinhorn.se) was redone. This has now been fixed. An updated link is https://lenaeinhorn.se/21/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Jesus-and-the-Egyptian-Prophet-12.11.25.p...

I read through the last section of this discussion, especially the segment concerned with ”holes” in the theory of Jesus and the Egyptian being the same person (Ulan, Ben C. Smith, Hakeem, Secret Alias), and I realized I may not have been very clear in my response. Yes, there are on the face of it b...

Also relatively surprising is the name θεοδωρος . Doesn't it mean 'gift of God' ? Just as Dositheos . Coincidentially (!) a disciple of the Baptizer. Not only that, but what does "John" (Yochanan in Hebrew) mean? "Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names does not treat Johanan...

Giuseppe wrote: ↑Fri Dec 07, 2018 8:20 am The link above to Wikipedia refers the source of the info.

I saw it, Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary. I looked it up. Hitchock's just gives the translation "flowing with water". But it doesn't give any other info. Really curious ...

Scholars attribute to his name a Greek etymology[1] possibly meant as “flowing with water”,[2] although with a Hellenist-styled ending. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theudas But I wonder how they trace that. I would have expected the translation of the name, which according to Strongs NT likely is ...

Lena had found a list of interesting similarities between Theudas and John the Baptist. Here i find another striking 'concidence' that may support better his argument: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4757&p=94532#p94532 Really, I start to suspect that John the Baptist was modeled on Theudas. Already Le...

lsayre wrote: ↑Thu Nov 29, 2018 11:55 am Perhaps Paul is both Jesus and the Egyptian?

Paul, and Jesus, and the Egyptian, and Jesus Barabbas ("Jesus son of the Father"; Matthew 27:16-17)

MrMacSon wrote: ↑Thu Nov 29, 2018 1:04 am It could throw the cat among the pigeons if it could be shown that the Titus that Paul took along in Gal 2:1 was the Titus (b. 39 AD/CE), even if a young one

That would be an interesting one ...

Ulan wrote: ↑Thu Nov 29, 2018 12:15 am @Lena: The post you quoted is mine, not hakeem's.

Yes, sorry!