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Because that post doesn't answer the question. Or better, it provides speculations on your part that are not plausible. I have already posted why those are not plausible. There is not really any theoretical reason I could think of that makes this setup for a census fulfill any purpose at all. It do...

Ulan wrote:

Mental flatliner wrote: I've already posted above an explanation of how taxation worked in the empire under Mark Anthony and later under Augustus. You may want to read it.

You could have just posted that you have no idea.

If you really want to know, what was it that stopped you from referring to the post I mentioned?

spin wrote:
(After thinking about it, as Mental Flatliner is such an intellectual coward I have placed him on ignore. Y'all can stimulate his ego.)

THANK GOD IN HEAVEN!

Maybe some of these discussions will have fewer completely useless tangeants.

You don't need to see it. Many different census efforts have already been posted in this thread by Tiberius. It's unreasonable to think they would have stopped at just these, and it's unreasonable to believe there were no more. It's far more reasonable to believe more were conducted and we've lost ...

I shortened this to the relevant part. I still haven't seen any reason for Romans collecting data like that for Galileans of Judaean ancestry. You don't need to see it. Many different census efforts by Tiberius and other emporers have already been posted in this thread. It's unreasonable to think t...

Judea was never under his jurisdiction and he never imposed a census or tax there There was no Roman census in Judea until 6 CE. That's a fact. If Luke thought otherwise, Luke was wrong. Luke was wrong about a lot of things. That's not remarkable. Each of these statements was simply made up on the ...

You can stop reading wherever you like. It helps you not to learn anything. That's why you know nothing about philology, as demonstrated by the previous post here I responded to. Crap about "phonetic spelling", inanities about how Babylon should have been spelled in Hebrew. Any convenient...

I guess we were so overwhelmed by your brilliance and erudition that we were reduced to unjustly convicting you of stupidity. Isn't this always the case with the greatest among us. Or you could have read my posts, where I repeatedly explained in clear terms. The only conclusion I can come to is tha...

Well, I'm taking you up on that challenge for I seek knowledge. At the start of this thread Mental flatliner was quoted as saying: For an advanced discussion, ask me how I isolated most of Luke's sources and named a few of them. Peter Kirby then challenged Mental flatliner to do just that. Mental r...

I don't know about motives You're trying to tell me why I mentioned the alternate spelling of Babylon. I've told you my motives several times. Any attempt on your part to alter my reasons is dishonest. You have two choices: --You can take my word for my reasons --You can continue to lie about them