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A lot of reasons, with none of them having historical truth as a goal. Most of it is political- with feminism rising to the for. The Jesus Seminar was put together partially to be an semi-scholarly answer to the right-wing fundamentalists. And some people just don't like religion. So they debunk wha...

Thanks for re-iterating what should be very basic stuff for all historians on source analysis.

Josephus is very clear about the Sanhedrin being illegally convened in A.D. 62 for the purpose of eliminating the Christian leadership in Jerusalem. Josephus says nothing remotely of the kind. Josephus also placed the ex-High Priest Ismael squarely in Rome in A.D. 62, and it is not a stretch to see...

Have you read Josephus? Have you read Acts of the Apostles?!! Yes and Yes. Josephus probably says nothing about Christians at all. Acts is 2nd Century fiction. You're probably thinking of Tacitus and the alleged scapegoating of Christians for the fire of Rome. This is a possible example of a locali...

Have you read Josephus?

Have you read Acts of the Apostles?!!

It seems that the politically correct view of the crucifixion is that the Romans killed Jesus. Technically, yes. Of course. But, as was observed, Pilate could have cared less about Jesus except for the urging and veiled threats from the High Priesthood, who couldn't get the job done with their own S...

This thread is like someone trying to make a cow out of hamburger. Beowulf- actually, a case can be made that the Jewish royalty- both Hyrcanus or Aristobulos (the sons of Alexander) were tyrants enslaving the people with ritual and tithing. The theocracy was crypto-subjugation at its best. And Taci...

"Either way, whatever post 40 b.c. date one goes for re the 3 year coins - these coins, with their symbol of a staurogram, raise questions over the implications of that symbol for Herod himself - and for the later use of that symbol by the early christians to depict their crucified JC figure.&q...

If you had money, you could do anything.

Pay off an official and you got the body.

Maybe that's what Nicodemus did.

Or was he a myth too?

I doubt it.