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In Flacc. 74, that a council of elders was appointed by Augustus to manage Jewish affairs after the death of the genarch. Who is that Genarch? Looks to be Herod the Great. I do not see a conflict here. A Jewich ethnarch can still preside over that council. But Philo chose to talk about the council ...

Another point of contact between the Pauline letters and the pre-70 AD period occurs in 2 Cor 12:31-33, which has the passage about Paul being let down in a basket through a window in the wall to escape the "ethnarch under King Aretas," the last known Nabatean king by this name having die...

I guess we can forget this basket case.

ἐν Δαμασκῷ ὁ ἐθνάρχης Ἁρέτα τοῦ βασιλέως ἐφρούρει τὴν πόλιν Δαμασκηνῶν πιάσαι με, (2Co 11:32 BGT) You're correct that epi (the Greek for the Latin "sub" in the creed) doesn't appear here. But there is something strange about the usage of the verb φρουρεω. The following citations are YLT o...

ruled by Nabatean kings Peter, on my blog post on the matter, I never said Damascus was ruled by Aretas at that time. http://historical-jesus.sosblogs.com/Historical-Jesus-Blo-b1/61-About-the-mention-of-the-ethnarch-of-Aretas-the-king-in-2-Corinthians-1132-33-b1-p65.htm The assumptions expressed in...

Another point of contact between the Pauline letters and the pre-70 AD period occurs in 2 Cor 12:31-33, which has the passage about Paul being let down in a basket through a window in the wall to escape the "ethnarch under King Aretas," the last known Nabatean king by this name having die...

Another point of contact between the Pauline letters and the pre-70 AD period occurs in 2 Cor 12:31-33, which has the passage about Paul being let down in a basket through a window in the wall to escape the "ethnarch under King Aretas," the last known Nabatean king by this name having die...

You've reminded me of a scene from Fellini's Satyricon, close to the beginning where the protagonist is walking along an internal colonnade that passed rooms in a huge building and in each room there is a separate scene, a sort of tableau of life in the space, prostitutes, families, all sorts of oth...

Beside the common misunderstanding of Gal 1:19 (which certainly does not say that James was the brother of Jesus), you are outlining Paul's ontology, which in itself says nothing about the historicity of Jesus.. How can you be so sure its 100% ontology? The statement you respond to and the answer t...

With an outlook as depressing as the one you've expressed here, Stephan, you make me wonder why you chose to thrust your genes forward. In what era before the present could you have had both the contemplative life and the family life? The contemplative life requires a certain education, not obtainab...