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Vermes wrote that Jerome read the 18th book of Antiquities of the Jews : Eusebius, Hist. eccl. iii 9, 4, asserts, in enumerating the works of Josephus, that 'On the antiquity of the Jews' (i.e. Contra Apionem ) was written 'against the grammarian Apion, who had at that time composed a λόγος against ...

And as I've noted already, 4Q266 has a first century CE carbon date. ... the radiocarbon date from Tuscon for 4Q266 was BP 1954 +/- 38, which after calibration is 4-82 CE at one sigma (44 BCE-129 CE at two sigma). https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Dead_Sea_Scrolls_After_Fifty_Years_V/7vCaDwA...

Recommended reading that challenges the above dating for Pilate: Daniel Schwartz: Reading the First Century ((2013) and Studies in the Jewish background to Christianity, (1992) I'd like to summarize my arguments against the Pilate 18 CE hypothesis: - It contradicts Josephus' dates for their reigns ...

StephenGoranson wrote: ↑Thu Aug 22, 2024 4:48 pm Again, the Damascus Document predates Jesus.

I just want to be sure, does 4Q266 mention Teacher of Righteousness explicitly (not a reconstruction)?

Ben C. Smith found only one reconstructed (from CD) reference in 4Q266, fragment 2, lines 6b-21a.

Ken Olson wrote: ↑Thu Aug 22, 2024 2:17 pm I agree with Peter Kirby, the OP is well considered.

Thank you.

Ken Olson wrote: ↑Thu Aug 22, 2024 2:17 pm So Pilate's governorship began no earlier than 25 CE and ended no later than 37 CE; so c. 26 to 36 CE is correct.

I fully agree.

Pontius Pilate — An Aqueduct Builder? — Recent Findings and New Suggestions Kenneth K. A. Silver here Thank you for another great article. I naively thought that aqueducts were made of lead, from start to end. But according to Lönnqvist, this wasn't the case: ... in standard Roman engineering terms...

The Chronology and Tenure of Pontius Pilate, New Evidence for Re-dating the Period of Office. Judaea and Rome in Coins, 65 BCE - 135 CE. The Numismatic Circular, pp. 1-7. Kenneth Lönnqvist. here Whatever explanation is offered, the substitution of lead in the coin alloy must have been intentional d...

I was not claiming that the ratios are impossible in an authentic work of Clement's, or even remotely near impossible, merely highly unlikely. How convincing one finds this sort of argument for inauthenticity will depends on factors such as ones prior estimate of the probability of authenticity. Al...

The only records of Pilate's aqueduct incident are from Josephus Flavius. He doesn't date this incident directly, so we only know that it happened during Pilate's reign (traditionally dated to 26 - 36 CE). However, I argue, that Josephus wrote in The Jewish War that this incident happened at the sam...

The project "The Hands that Wrote the Bible" made 30 additional c14 tests. Using c14 and paleography and AI, they have preliminarily reported that some Qumran mss are earlier than previously estimated. Thanks, it looks interesting, I didn't know about that. I'll check it. If anybody else ...