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Based on Mason's essay.. The problem is that in referring to scenic elements in his two-volume work, the author of Luke-Acts (whose name we don’t know) mentions just a few things that happen to be things featured by Josephus. So there’s been a long discussion about the best way to explain this. The ...

maryhelena wrote: ↑Mon Jul 29, 2024 10:54 pm

JarekS wrote: ↑Mon Jul 29, 2024 1:30 pm ....and most recently Mason's work last year.

Do you have a link to Mason's work last year ?

No, I don't.
I have summary.

For years I was convinced that TF was an interpolation mainly due to Goldberg's findings, based on a statistical comparison of Luke and TF that was performed using a computer. Hard statistical data ruled out a coincidence. Goldberg concluded: The conclusion that can therefore be drawn is that Joseph...

It is one thing to draw an argument from existing evidence and another thing to create evidence to draw an argument. Are you saying I created evidence? If so, could you say specifically where? Did he write +60 years before Constantine? How old was Eusebius when he wrote if he was born in 264 and di...

It is one thing to draw an argument from existing evidence and another thing to create evidence to draw an argument. Did he write +60 years before Constantine? How old was Eusebius when he wrote if he was born in 264 and died in 340. Constantine became Augustus and Caesar of the western provinces in...

What would be the purpose of an interpolation inserted in the 4th century into a work from the end of the 1st century? No one questioned the historicity of Jesus. Neither pagans nor Jews. There was no need to argue for the historicity of Jesus either in the 2nd or 3rd century. Why in the 4th century...

Historical fiction is not just about inventing a narrative. It is often about a creative way of presenting actual historical figures and events that differs from known facts. Historical fiction was practiced by Henryk Sienkiewicz, whose books were loved by all readers and hated by historians and cri...

Ken is wrong about this. Jospehus is not a historian, he is not a Pharisee, or anything else he claims to be. He wrote TF to please the audience, as usual, and used dramatic big words to achieve the desired effect. He is simply an author of historical fiction for a mass audience. In a simplified ver...

Robert M. Price does not believe in the authenticity of the Testimonium. And that's where it all started. The story from 65 years ago was accepted by part of the audience as a dream come true. Early Christian writers supplemented it by inventing Paul and gospels - the Passion narrative with an incr...

Robert M. Price does not believe in the authenticity of the Testimonium. And that's where it all started. The story from 65 years ago was accepted by part of the audience as a dream come true. Early Christian writers supplemented it by inventing Paul and gospels - the Passion narrative with an incre...