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I didn't xerox the article, so I can only go by what I remember. Elitzur does a calculation to come up with an age of about 25 at death for Mattathias. I don't remember where Elitzur gets a birth year. I don't see anything in Josephus about how old the child was when Pompey took him to Rome in 63. ...

Thanks, David, for the history summary. This Abba Cave topic is interesting, in and of itself. It only came up on this thread because two writers are using it against Ehrman's argument re no tomb for the crucified JC. Quotes below: To counter Ehrman’s argument (and Crossan) one of the authors of “Ho...

I didn't xerox the article, so I can only go by what I remember. Elitzur does a calculation to come up with an age of about 25 at death for Mattathias. I don't remember where Elitzur gets a birth year. I don't see anything in Josephus about how old the child was when Pompey took him to Rome in 63. ...

Hi Maryhelena, I'm at my other library w/ IEJ in hand. Most of what's in Elitzur's article is already reported in earlier posts on here. He makes a fascinating case but does not remove my doubt because, p. 92 n. 14, he reports two conversations he had with Patricia Smith in 2012. She insists that s...

By the term "the Josephan writer" do you mean Flavius Josephus? Is this a backhanded way of suggesting that his works were authored by someone else, or maybe by a group of people? The Josephan writer? "Josephus" - could be a pseudonym. The writer has already changed his name onc...

In a previous thread ( Doudna: Antigonus: Wicked Priest hung up alive on a cross ) I made reference to a view that I have proposed a number of times on this forum and on FRDB. My position that the execution of the last King and High Priest of the Jews, the Hasmonean Antigonus II, was used by the gos...

ficino wrote:
The issue in question (IEJ 63.1, p. 87ff) is not on the shelf in Periodicals. Whenever I get to the other library I usually use, I'll see if it's there. sorry, F

Thanks for trying......

I have not been able to get a copy of the article by Yoel Elitzur. However, I did find, on the Bible and Interpretation, site a new article on the Abba Cave by Joe Zias A Jerusalem tomb, ‘blind leading the blind’ or just another Day in Paradise? http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/2014/04/zia388008...

MH, I am finding the political history of the period between Alexandra Salome (widow of Alexander Janneus) to be very hard to fit together. The WIKI articles are so fragmented and use such stilted language and rely so heavily on secondary sources that they are virtually useless. The intensity of th...

In fact, what really is that Josephan writer claiming with his name: Joseph ben Matityahu. Is he claiming decent from Antigonus II Mattathias (known in Hebrew as Matityahu) ?? If this is so, then are we not dealing with, in the Josephan writings, a retelling of Hasmonean history alongside later Her...