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One thing I can point to is that with the loss of a Roman fostered society education died except in closed religious contexts which slowly opened up to the elites and cathedral schools eventually gave birth to universities. Education has generally come out from under the shadow of the religion, but...

To counter Ehrman’s argument (and Crossan) one of the authors of “How God became Jesus” has referenced the Abba Cave and a new article regarding the bones found. How God Became Jesus: Chapter: ‘Getting the Burial Traditions and Evidences Right’ .Craig A. Evans A recent study by Yoel Elitzur has con...

Personally, I am inclined top think that Cassius Dio was wrong about the method of execution. He may have heard that the method used "had never before been done to someone of royal family" but not knowing that it was by beheading, may have thought that it was by scourging. Beheading was t...

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. I...

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 sh...

I didn't think I needed to read much more after I got to this of Witherington's: "It is the disciples he sends out into the world, and later of course Saul of Tarsus." This is not, in my opinion, the way to phrase things if one means, "later of course Saul of Tarsus claims to have bee...

Fascinating, brando_slc, and very useful. Many thanks.

This might be from the dig I mentioned in the OP, can't quite tell. No mention of coins, though:

http://www.hadashot-esi.org.il/report_d ... mag_id=118

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...

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...

Wasn't the supposed letter of Clement copied onto one of the flyleaves of a manuscript? If so, and if Smith forged it, he would have had to have done that in situ - unless he spirited the manuscript away to his room when he was staying at Mar Saba and later spirited it back to the library. Maybe pos...