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Why not?

Josephus, Sadduc, Paul, Jesus all Pharisees?
Could this possibly indicate something?

DCHindley gave excellent sources. To add a small comment, rabbinic literature (at least portions of it) appears to agree that Pharisees were lest strict in legal interpretations than Sadducees (for instance in their comparison of Hillel and Shammai, taken, more or less, historically or not linked o...

[ quote="Secret Alias" post_id=133833 time=1646349175 user_id=6998] (Zakkai abbreviation of Zecharya) No etymological link. Zakkai comes from a root which means to clean or purify. Zachar = to remember [/quote] Are you sure? https://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Zaccai.html Pure: by ...

Is this assumption crazy? John the Baptist from the Gospels is actually Yohanan Ben Zakkai (Zakkai abbreviation of Zecharya). Yohanan Ben Zecharya has been given safe-conduct with another Jewish non-anti-Roman opposed factions (eg Notzri-Nazarene?) from the Romans (and Josephus and the remaining &qu...

Could it be that Pilate was sent in 18 CE as praefectus, so not as procurator-prefect (that was Valerius Gratus then), by Sejanus Praefect of the Roman Praetorian Guard to sort things out militarily and with knowledge of military engineering (aqueduct-building) and to act as prefect to Gratus to rel...

What strikes me is that all the persons Elymas/Etoimus/Atomus/Magus/Saul can have a connection with the great Philosophy school of Tarsus. With a lot of attention for the Stoic School and the Jewish Philosophy. Synchretic philosophy? Tarsus is less than 1 day boat trip from Cyprus... Josephus mentio...

Changing one(!) letter in Chrestian sacred texts to adjust the context, appears to have happened more than once.

See:
https://cista.net/Origins-of-Chrestiani ... ition.html

what means "Ἰάκωβος ὄνομα αὐτῷ(dative) ?” (The brother of Jesus who) "(gave) himself(dative) the name James" what means “tοv λεγομένοv Χριστοv” (“ the called (by others Mashiah” or (in case it was Χρηστοv: Chrestus / the Zaddik, the Just, the Righteous One. (Chrestus used by Flavius J...

Addendum:
Punctuation marks were not used in koine greek of that time.

Another topic : "ατομος <-> ατοπος" "atomus/little <-> atopos/wicked" ... (Josephus about Felix "Simon/atomus)) ???