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I don’t think that Acts verse proves what you wish. But good day.

Only if those words are taken out of context could you imagine such a thing. My broader suggestion is that you may be deluding yourself, and maybe wasting time.

Is to deny that “one of them” ordinarily means a human by claiming it is an “invention”—for no other given reason than that it contradicts your presupposition—circular “reasoning”?

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Though I do not have a copy at hand, Shaye Cohen’s 1979 book (based on his 1975 dissertation), Josephus in Galilee and Rome: His Vita and His Development as a Historian, as I recall from reading in the 1980s, does not deny that Josephus wrote Antiquities, but as the title suggests (his development f...

Though maybe not relevant for the OP, Secret Alias wrote, “…I think Morton Smith's student Shaye Cohen presented evidence that your beloved corpus of Josephus was likely a forgery or at least an original Aramaic hypomnema of Josephus was heavily interpolated into the existing Greek texts we now poss...

printed and open access electronic versions Fakes and Forgeries of Written Artefacts from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern China Series: Studies in Manuscript Cultures, 20 Edited by: Cécile Michel and Michael Friedrich De Gruyter | 2020 DOI: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://doi.org/10.1515/978311071...

In 1912 Charles Dawson claimed that he found important early human bones, known as Piltdown man. By faulty logic he could be called the sole eyewitness, and therefore “innocent.” Decades later this was proven to be fake. We know that others witnessed the ms. Including Guy Stroumsa and David Flusser....

Morton Smith was a hard-working researcher, but that was not one of my questions. Karen King was a hard-working researcher. She contacted the NY Times and others to cover what she claimed was an important ancient gospel text. Morton Smith contacted the NY Times and others to cover what he claimed wa...

The recorded, freely available (LMWsymposium.com) presentation by Geoffrey Smith is recent (a month old) and makes relevant claims. Is such news unwelcome here to more than one?