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Note 10 of the same my article reads: It is curious that the other names occasionally omitted in favor of a patronymic (see above) also had patriotic undertones: Johanan (cf. John of Gischala, one of the oustanding leaders of the First Revolt) and Eleazar (cf. Eleazar ben Dinai, who led an uprising ...

Giuseppe wrote the following, which is not true: “Because it evoked the name of Simon bar Giora, the name of Simon was prohibited after the First Revolt.” Stephen, my source is academic: However that may be, it seems certain that in the first century and perhaps for some time afterwards the use of ...

If the "Egyptian Prophet" was defamed by Josephus by being called 'Egyptian', could Simon bar Jora be defamed by being called 'the Samaritan Simon' ?

Hence we have the passage, for effect of that defamatory anti-Zealot propaganda, from Simon bar Giora to Simon of Samaria.

If then Simon bar Jora == Simon Peter == Simon Magus == Simon bar Abbas,

...how could the passage happen from an enemy of Rome to an enemy of YHWH ?

Because it evoked the name of Simon bar Giora, the name of Simon was prohibited after the First Revolt. This may give a reason for Peter's change of name (from Simon to Cephas). A scholar has argued that the name of Barabbas could be not "Jesus", originally, but Simeon . A Christian scribe...

Unfortunately there it is reported the usual interpretation (a descent, not a birth).

Where is a birth reported, in connection to Capernaum?

I remember somewhere that I had read that Marcion placed the birth of Jesus in Capernaum, and not merely his descent from above already adult.

If someone can help me to remember, I will thank him in advance.

Thebutes, or Thebuthis All that is known of this person is the statement that Eusebius ( Hist. Eccles . 4:22) quotes from Hegesippus to the effect that Thebutes made a beginning secretly to corrupt the Church of Jerusalem, because Simon the son of Cleophas was appointed to be bishop of the Christian...

I should add: the Jews and scribes and Pharisees fear too much the power of persuasion by James, in Hegesippus Herod fears too much the power of persuasion by John the Baptist, in Josephus James "was not killed by the fall", but later by a club, in Hegesippus John the Baptist was not kille...