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LOL. Helen, you are quoting from Josephus to prove a point about Jesus being a literary figure, but Josephus mentions Jesus twice in Antiquities as being a real figure. Can't have it both ways. Haha - the Josephan writer is no better than those gospel writers - writing pseudo-history alongside hist...

The standard translation of Cassius Dio on the end of Antigonus is These people Antony entrusted to a certain Herod to govern; but Antigonus he bound to a cross and flogged, — a punishment no other king had suffered at the hands of the Romans, — and afterwards slew him. The Greek is ἐκείνους μὲν οὖ...

Whoo-wee! Haven't seen or heard from Greg in a long long time. Last I knew he was teaching at a community college. We just might, possibly, hear from Spin on this matter. DCH That might be interesting..... ;) In case you missed my earlier reference to Greg Doudna - on the Ehrman thread - here it is...

Just having read what you posted above, even if the bones are Antigonus', it's hard for me to see how burial of an executed king would serve as a paradigm of treatment of corpses of other executed people. My first impression is that, once again, inerrantists have to rely on "it might after all...

When I am at the library on Monday I'll see if the latest issue of IEJ is in. Here is the abstract from the journal's website: http://israelexplorationsociety.huji.ac.il/IEJ%2063-1%20TOC%20with%20abstracts.pdf I would really appreciate that - thanks. I gave up googling the article....ended up just ...

For some time now I have maintained that the last King and High Priest of the Jews, Antigonus, was the historical model for the crucifixion element of the gospel Jesus story. (I view the gospel Jesus as a literary composite figure). I have previously made reference to Cassius Dio: Roman History, boo...

One of the points raised in some of the anti Ehrman book reviews is in connection with Ehrman’ position that there was no normal burial, hence no tomb. Ehrman referencing Crossan. One of those traditions, which the resurrection narrative itself presupposes, is that Jesus received a decent burial, ei...

Oh, my, the fundamentalists really have it in for Ehrman' new book...and for Ehrman himself.... Editor’s Preface The purpose of this volume is to offer a critical response to Bart Ehrman’s book How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee. Ehrman is something of a celebrity...

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Wasn't the "How God" book published before or around the same time as Ehrman's "How Jesus" book? If so, in what sense is it a "response" to Ehrman's? Neil, the How God became Jesus book was published as a response to Ehrman' book. In what may be an unprecedented publis...