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Here's a link to the book, if anyone's interested:

http://tinyurl.com/lkl5ewt

Another possibility: the rich man who places Jesus in his family tomb is called "Joseph" because the story is based on Gen 47.29–31, 50.14 (Joseph and the Cave of Macpelah).

Who else would James, the brother of Jesus in a passage about high priest Jesus ben Damneus, be?

I would note that if Mark had access to Josephus' Wars but not Antiquities (as I suspect), he might not have known who was high priest under Pilate's tenure. Wars does not mention Caiaphas, but it does mention Pilate.

I've toyed with the idea that Caiaphas was Paul's Cephas, and some other priest (James ben Damneus?) was his James. In other words, the "Pillars" were simply Jewish (not Christian) leaders whose approval was sought by Paul and other leaders of the nascent "Hellenistic Judaism" mo...

If you mean the original Tacitus used a tampered-with copy of Josephus, the timeline doesn't work. It was probably Pamphilus (as Carrier believes) or Eusebius who created the TF.

But let’s suppose for an instant that a Messiah named Jesus had charged Peter with creating a Church and being its leader. How would events have proceeded? Peter would have undoubtedly obeyed, but having received his instructions from Jesus in Jerusalem, it is in Jerusalem (seat of the first commun...

@Neil: I wasn't aware of Salm's translations, but this book is not among them.

That's right.

@MrMacSon: Yes, there was an English translation of the first edition of Ory's book, which was printed in the journal Cahier rationalist 1961. However, the English edition is not available by any means that I could find, and the 1963 French edition has additional material. @Outhouse: Thanks for the ...