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I will try to post some parallels between these three pairs of people: Wicked Priest = Herod Agrippa I Teacher of Righteousness = Simeon of Jerusalem Man of the Lie = Paul Wicked Priest pursued Teacher of Righteousness / Herod Agrippa sent for Simon We have this scene in Josephus: However, there was...

Grafton discusses some very learned men who created forgeries, most notably Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536). Interesting. Did Erasmus wrote Julius Excluded from Heaven ? If not, maybe the author of Julius Excluded from Heaven wrote De duplici martyrio . I read here that the language is similar.

https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/photius_copyright/photius_04bibliotheca.htm#177 I cannot say with certainty whether the name of Aram which he gives to their chief is a name or nickname. This person, the author says, fashioned a fifth gospel which he feigns that he found in the libraries of Euseb...

Contamination can be eliminated. For details: Johannes van der Plicht, "Radiocarbon Dating and the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Comment on 'Redating'," Dead Sea Discoveries 14, 1 (2007) 77-89. Interesting article but I don't see any mention of how contamination can be eliminated. The article is ba...

When C14 tests are done by several labs on dozens of writing surface samples, they are mostly highly reliable. In this case they reliably show that some writing surfaces that contain mentions of the Teacher of Righteousness and the Wicked Priest are dated earlier than the first century CE. Can C14 ...

This is interesting. If you accept that the TF is probably a Christian work in its entirety, on what basis would you say it is probably not by Eusebius? Best, Ken https://chs.harvard.edu/chapter/5-a-eusebian-reading-of-the-testimonium-flavianum-ken-olson/ Eusebius just doesn't strike me as a forger...

To claim that "Carbon dating has some inherent uncertainties..." without identifying such nor showing that repeated tests should be ignored is not sufficient reason to suppose that first-century CE proposals are even plausible. I meant what you already said: "Plus, C14 dates are neit...

I'm a little confused here, ... are you saying that Agrippa (I) was somehow officiating as a (High) Priest on the day of atonement?? Regardless of distant relationship with Hasmonean line, that does not make him a priest, let alone the HP. Alright, maybe I was speculating too much. Maybe it wasn't ...

The claim is garbled, because neither Jerome in De viris illustribus 13, nor Josephus in Antiquities 18.8.1 / 257-60 say that Apion's book was directed against Philo, and Antiquities 18.257-60 is quoted in Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History 2.5.2-5, which is probably where Jerome got what he says abo...

They're all guesses and estimates. I wonder about that. Carbon dating has some inherent uncertainties and there is nothing I can do about it. However, I could study the paleography of Dead Sea Scrolls. And I want to do that because I want to know more about its reliability. It will take some time, ...