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1. that there were many ethnarchs in the Empire associated with or appointed by client kings or kings - i.e. that the Alexandrian ethnarch of the Jewish community was associated with King Agrippa in the manner that the ethnarch of Damascus is alleged to have been associated with Aretas or is this j...

If you think 2 Cor 11:32 is not an interpolation, but the Aretas in question being Aretas III, then that would put Paul's apostolic episode way earlier (about by one century). Before I go further, I have to ask you: Is it what you think? If not clarify. I don't really know what to think of the vers...

2 Cor 31:33 an interpolation (likely an attempt to harmonize Paul's letter with Acts) If that would be the case, why did the interpolator substitute Jews for ethnarch of Aretas? Jews, being after Paul, makes sense. Why change that to ethnarch of Aretas the king? Why change from killing Paul to seiz...

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spin wrote:... it is worth noting Grant himself mixes the notions of myth and docetism.

Isn't it lucky we have spin here to correct Michael Grant on matters of history.

They are not, in themselves, matters of history.

This makes a case for the separatist nature of the Jews in the lands of Egypt and Cyrene and it is on account of this that the Jews were given a "governor" (ethnarch, according to Josephus). There is no reason to think that such a position, if it were indeed called an "ethnarch"...

Here is a description of the function of the Jewish ethnarch in Alexandria, from Strabo being quoted by Josephus: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=J.%20AJ%2014.7.2&lang=original Was that ethnarch nominated by the Jewish king of the time (Herod the Great & Agrippa I), if any? Why...

One needs to stop dithering in semantics and deal with the Michael Grant quote, which basically presents the case in question. No dithering here, mountainman. I'm trying to get you to cut back on the confusion. When you misapply terms you not only confuse your reader, but you confuse yourself. Your...

According to Josephus (Ant., XIX, V, 2-3), the Jews of Alexandria (Egypt) were represented by an ethnarch under Augustus. Bernard, ich verstehe Sie nicht. Sind Sie ein Atheist oder Sie sind sehr kirchlich? Naughty, Genghiz, naughty, very naughty. And not sehr wohlwollend. I can't fathom why you per...

Michael Grant 2004, :goodmorning: When you cite sources one usually includes the name of the work so one knows what the fuck you are citing from. Grant died in 2004 at the age of 89. Are you citing from his 1977 book on Jesus ("Jesus: An Historian's Review of the Gospels") in some more re...