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Sounds like a fascinating project.

The trial account in Mark 14 attests to false reports circulating about Jesus. vv. 57-58: Some stood up and gave false testimony against him, saying, “We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another, not made with hands.’” Ironically, the...

Sorry, the JSTOR remark was a separate thing. I remember doing a search last year and finding a few papers on the passage's Latin difficulties. The only one I have saved to my computer is F.W. Clayton, "Tacitus and Nero's Persecution of the Christians", The Classical Quarterly 41 (3-4):81-...

Jay, if you remember who originally made the case that 15.44 originally referred to persecution of the devotees of Isis, and that it's been transposed from an earlier part of the work, I'd be very interested in reading that person's publication. Since I brought it up initially, I figured it was my ...

Yeah, from the late second century onward, theological concerns about Mary's virginity directed the development of tradition about Jesus' so-called brothers. Thus, Eusebius, Jerome and others combed the texts at their disposal to find alternate explanations of James' parentage. Despite their theolog...

Thanks!

Does anyone know offhand in which of his writings Jerome proposed that James son of Alphaeus was the same person as James the Just?

Another weird one is that Thaddeus becomes Addai in Aramaic/Syriac.

Every time I come across a deliberate NIV mistranslation meant to fix an error in the text, I tell myself I need to keep a file of them to show Evangelicals. That's it, I'm starting one now!

Thanks, Andrew. I see it's very cheap to boot!