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- Mon Dec 11, 2017 10:04 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: A particular feature of the Testimonium Flavianum
- Replies: 3
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Re: A particular feature of the Testimonium Flavianum
Why would Josephus go out of his way to report such hearsay? The TF is a brief interjection on a man of a note who lived around the time frame Josephus was discussing. No need to get into the specifics of Christian belief, or even risk giving Christians credibility. And we can speculate that there's...
- Mon Dec 11, 2017 9:34 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The link between the interpolation "called Christ" and Simon Magus
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1566
Re: The link between the interpolation "called Christ" and Simon Magus
I think you're presuming/reading into completely unrelated events far too much. Instead of this rather convoluted chain of events, it's far more easier to posit that Josephus actually wrote "called Christ" to identify James, because his audience would probably be familiar with this Jesus a...
- Mon Dec 11, 2017 9:27 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Was John the Baptist invented?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6436
Re: Was John the Baptist invented?
. Lena Einhorn has also noted there are arguments against Josephus’ reference to John being authentic - John the Baptist is not at all mentioned in De bello Judaico , although when it was written in the 70s, John had been dead for several decades. The appearance of John the Baptist is very sudden, ...
- Mon Dec 11, 2017 9:17 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Galatians as evidence of a post-Gospel mythicist sect
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2112
Re: Galatians as evidence of a post-Gospel mythicist sect
I believe this all supposes that Paul wasn't the actual writer of Galatians, if I'm not mistaken. Am I wrong?