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Thanks for the pdf. Interesting work. The authenticity of the letters is uncertain due to the condition of the historical material. The text itself cannot prove authenticity or inauthenticity without external verification factors. Biblical studies had to choose a solution because the story about the...

I have no education in the humanities and I approach problems from a practical perspective. A church organization, a corporation, an army, a political party, an administration have their leaders, managers, specialists, and rank-and-file employees. These structures are characterized by the division o...

I see I have to read it. I recently read Wipper and was impressed by his analysis. The guy was running away from the communists like Rostovtsev, but they caught him in 1940. Instead of losing his life, he was promoted high in the structure of the Soviet academy because Stalin loved his monograph on ...

Christianity began with Josephus' Antiquities and a short story called Testimonium Flavianum. It aroused religious enthusiasm among some of the audience, which was further exploited by the environment in which Josephus operated. Epaphroditus commissioned ghostwriters to continue the story of Jesus i...

What is the solution of the enigma? Please share. There is no enigma. It all started with the writings of Josephus, who worked for the Flavian family, and all three: Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian minted coins with an anchor and a dolphin. The oldest Christian symbol is the anchor and fish. The coi...

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Question1. Did Josphus just want to present a story he heard in a colorful way? (My slight difference is that for me the TF is a total interpolation but the Samaritan Impostor slain by Pilate played the same role attributed by you by the original TF). Hence my fun with Josephus is the following: 1)...

JarekS, above, in part: "2. Steve Mason proved that the writings of Josephus are the source for the evangelist Luke" Steve Mason proposed that Josephus was A source, not THE source for Luke. Obviously, not THE source. Why pretend that? Corrected. I always forgot. There is no equivalent of...

Since: 1. Gunter Zuntz proved that Paul's letters were always known only from the Pauline Corpus collection, which was created after 100 CE. We do not know of any evidence or any person confirming their alleged original circulation. 2. Steve Mason proved that the writings of Josephus are a source fo...

i think the views of the epistle author were clear and defined in their original form and were entirely based on a symbolic Jesus who played a role, the problem the author has is that there was a historical Jesus. It is this man he avoids to mention. But the epistles were soon combined with the ver...