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Peter Kirby—I have not followed all the discussions on the Ant 20 James passage but I wonder if the following explanation could be a possibility on the table. Assume Hegesippus draws from Papias on the real tradition of James the Just’s death actually occurring during the Revolt. (Side comment one:...

And if we've worked out our (alleged) psychological issues with it and are still wondering to what extent it's true? What would be convincing evidence to you? This reminds me of the old "sell me this pen" interviewing question. The correct answer is you're supposed to first ask, "wha...

Acts of Paul?

Although I feel like the meme: I'm not sure what makes a Paulinist, and at this point I'm afraid to ask.

It's kind of exciting--once the Herr Professors can get past the natural aversion to saying that the canonical gospels were based on Christianity's most dangerous heretic, we are going to see a paradigm shift of major proportions. And if we've worked out our (alleged) psychological issues with it a...

Thanks for sharing the additional images and asking questions on the subject of ligatures. I'm not able to comment on the ligature subject without further study. I'm okay with bracketing the ligature stuff and the accent stuff as beyond my paygrade currently and inconclusive, respectively. I am not ...

While the theory that Josephus Antiquities 20.200 has been interpolated may be attractive to mythicists, it is certainly not a solely mythicist argument, if that's what you are suggesting. In the late 19th and the first half of the 20th century it was quite commonly thought to have been interpolate...

Thanks Ken!

And thank you to Viklund and Hedrick.

I wasn't commenting on the other considerations. From the perspective of your outline as a whole, perhaps it's at most a minor flaw. I was commenting specifically on the point where we have in effect excluded the data from the Pallas example, with respect to mentioning someone with reference to anot...

And I am really just skeptical that it's even possible to justify the premise mentioned at all. It seems like a major flaw.

Most likely a satisfactory answer to that question moves beyond a mechanical search through the text of Josephus. By which I mean that the scope of data considered would have to be wider, not just Josephus, or that the consideration would have to be motivated by some other knowledge by which we can ...