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Hi, Ken

Good discussion. I'll need a day or so, since today is an election day here in the trackless wilds and I'll be standing out in the rain holding a sign. I'm told this is vital for the health of the republic. How can I say no?

Additional Notes on early Christian transmission of the passage about James in Antiquities 20.200. Eusebius Demonstratio 3.5: Greetings, Ken I don't have much to say about the absence of Josephus from the Proof 's mention of James in III.5 beyond wondering what Josephus would have added to the argu...

So, too, with Origen. He cites Josephus, and I have no difficulty locating a similar passage in Josephus. That's why I think Origen misremembered something about that passage, because I can compare what nearly matches what he's talking about, found where he told me to look, with what he said. Do yo...

Greetings, Ken Occam's Razor I don't see this forum or this thread as a likely venue in which to do justice to the issues involved. So long as we can agree that the Razor isn't a demonstrative (truth-value preserving, necessary, ...) inference rule, then I can live with your enthusiasm for it and en...

I'll just restate my earlier view that the absence of textual support for the OP hypothesis (comparing with the Mark 16 situation) adds strongly to the view that references to Jesus in the Pauline Corpus are original. I hold no brief for the OP (who is, after all, simply asking a question) and I be...

Philippians 2:8-11 (ESV) RE: Someone was awarded the name 'Jesus' post obedience leading to death on a cross. I don't see that as being what is on the page. God bestowed "the name above every name," which is an oxymoron (nothing can be above every instance of its own kind), so we may infe...

@Ken Translating ἐφάνη γὰρ αὐτοῖς as 'for he was seen by them' is possible. Indeed, Alice Whealey has argued the phrase has 'a subjective cast' ('Josephus', 95). But we should not lose sight of the fact that Christians used ἐφάνη of Jesus' post-resurrection appearances, as in the longer ending of Ma...

I sense that you have a quarrel with CNN for reasons other than its usage of the verb to invent . I will leave you to it. Amusing story: although I don't mistake a dictionary for something legislative, I do take it as a curated record of attestation. So I asked Google what is the definition of inven...

I just thought about a detail in the testimonium flavianum. “And when, upon the accusation of the principal men among us, Pilate had condemned him to a cross, those who had first come to love him did not cease. And the tribe of the Christians has still to this day not disappeared”. Theologians say ...

The CNN article does not say that Galileo invented "the telescope" but rather "the telescope ... which enabled him to discover that Jupiter has moons." Not the first telescope ever, but the specific device with which he made the discovery mentioned. It is uncontroversial that Gal...