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I think that you have not read my confession here , where I have given up to doubt about the authenticity of the Baptist Passage in Josephus. Ah, yes, my apologies; I was coming back to the thread after some considerable time and had forgotten that you had added that post. Regarding List's article,...

Hello! My apologies for taking so long to respond. Hi Ken, Thanks for this. While it's not impossible, it does sound like a very roundabout, complicated, improbable explanation for something that can surely be explained much more easily by the 'brother of Jesus called Christ' line being original to ...

If I are correct that Origen confused the book 18 of Antiquities of Josephus with the same book written by 'Hegesippus', then what an interpolator had to do, after Origen and without having read Origen at all (but only the same Hegesippus' s book read by Origen), is to place in the original Josephu...

Quick question: Why would Eusebius have wanted to make this interpolation? DrSarah, You could look at my previous response to you on this: Good point; I do owe you a couple of responses which I need to get to. Meanwhile, answering this: Dr. Sarah, 4) The theory I am proposing is that Eusebius, who ...

I don’t even know where to start with this. How would inventing a trial and sentence that didn’t happen have anything to do with proving that Jesus was the Messiah or the son of YHWH? The two things have to be separated. The Roman trial was the "technical" translation of the celestial eve...

Quick question: Why would Eusebius have wanted to make this interpolation?

Why would an ancient religious writer have transformed a myth into such a sober, brief, and seemingly historical account? because the first need of the propaganda among gentile masses required that the original myth was understood in clear sober, brief and seemingly historical terms. Why? It's not ...

https://i.ibb.co/NLBxF4v/plt.png If in a story (assumed to be symbolical for a lot of other reasons) it is said obsessively that "Pelet releases someone", then one can't fail to remember that "Pelet" means "deliverance" therefore (i.e.: not coincidentially) he is portr...

As Aaron releases (פלט) the goat for Hayom Kippur (= the day of atonement) so Pilate=פילטוס releases (פלת) Barabbas for the Pesach. [/box] Once again: I cannot find any place in the description of the release of the goat that uses the PLT root. If you've found such a place, by all means give me the...

Now I come to the affair of the "coincidence". Is it a coincidence the repeated emphasis on the verb "to release" in Mark: Now it was the custom at the festival to release a prisoner whom the people requested. 7 A man called Barabbas was in prison with the insurrectionists who h...