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The funny thing about the James ossuary was that the engraving was in Greek. Anyone knowledgeable about the period knows that the Jews hated the Greek-Syrians. Josephus, an educated Priest, had to learn Greek just to write his books in the accepted intellectual language of the day, Greek, when he wa...

LOL.

You guys break me up.

Who said he finished it?

Acts ends in Rome pretty much in limbo in A.D. 63.

A very reasonable case can be made that Luke, Paul, Peter and the boys got rounded up by the Roman mob and executed.

Lucky that Luke's manuscript survived at all.

Charles Wilson wrote:Steve43.
I take your Post as complete acceptance of my Post, since you refute none of it.

Thank you.

CW

LOL.

Don't take it that way at all.

Give me one simple aspect of your "theory" and I'll look at it "critically."

My time is limited and your theories are confusing.

Hi Steve43. It might mean that or it could mean 40 years, 70 years, 120 years, 900 years or an unspecified amount of time. Because of the ambiguity of the meaning, it cannot be used to date the gospels. In Matthew 24, we have Jesus talking about "this generation" in answering the question...

Once again we get into theories and hypothesizes derived from a variety of sources and cut-and-pasted into some conclusion presented by someone who may or may not have an agenda. Well and good. It is a free society and the internet is a great source for people to explore all sorts of interesting sub...

Generation usually means 20 years- which is the generally accepted age where a man can reproduce.

Where is your source for saying people in ancient Rome did not keep track of the age at death?

Seems a very basic human metric and for the emperors they certainly did.

I didn't know that John Holmes wrote a Gospel.

Today, at least, there is no nearby spring that serves Bethlehem. Steve43- John 4: 10 -12 (RSV): [10] Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, `Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water." [11] The wom...

If Bethlehem had an Artesian water supply, that would be de facto proof that it was always inhabited- such as was the case for Nazareth. Interesting sites I stumbled across: http://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-jerusalem-temple-mount-threshing-floor-aqueduct.htm "The water conduit th...