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The Aesop fable of the boy who cried wolf occurs to me, if I am allowed to mention it here. I wrote that one therefore-mythicism-concluding post seemed to me not to logically follow from the reasoning offered for that assertion. If I may suggest this, here, offering weak or irrelevant justifications...

This is not the quote that I remember, which was by a professor. But Jacob Neusner's son, Noam, could be considered an expert witness: "And then there is his father's television habit. "He watches a lot of junk TV," Noam says. "He's seen every episode of Murder, She Wrote at leas...

iirc, Neusner was said to be a television watcher, according to a comment about his over-productivity.
Something of the sort: he did all that, but still watched TV at night.

No. These are common names.

Is this the reference? Yeshou dans le Talmud. Étienne Weill-Raynal 1970 French Book Book 16 pages 21 cm Paris (7e), Cercle Ernest-Renan, 3, rue Récamier, Get This Item Availability: Check the catalogs in your library. Libraries worldwide that own item: 8 Find this in your library Connect to the cata...

Has anyone before proposed that
"Misdating Jesus to Jannaeus' era may be due to a confusion of Jesus with the Qumran Teacher of Righteousness, who did live during the time of Jannaeus" ?
Thanks.

Readers did not have to know a priori that Capernaum is in Galilee, since they are told so.
Your "Therefore" does not logically follow.

Christianity imo did not begin "with imperial sponsorship."

Though I have published on the three contemporaries, Jannaeus (Wicked Priest), Absalom (the acquiescent brother of Jannaeus), and Judah the Essene (Teacher of Righteousness), the proposal, "Misdating Jesus to Jannaeus' era may be due to a confusion of Jesus with the Qumran Teacher of Righteousn...

No, not clear.