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JarekS: "The probability that Josephus invented Jesus is 50%. If he didn't make it up, he heard it from someone. The probability that this person invented Jesus is 50%. So 50+50%*50%=75%. If it turns out that Josephus' source learned about Jesus from yet another source, it will be 50%+50%*50%+...

Leucius Charinus wrote: ↑Fri May 31, 2024 6:07 am "A rank forgery, and a very stupid one, too" (1762)

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The idea that an entire Legend started from a historical document without a real historical connection between the founders of the Legend and the historical events related in a such historical document (which in short is the view expressed here by Jarek in the case of Jesus) is really followed by m...

JarekS wrote, above, in part: "...Therefore, the probability of Jesus existing is 25% or less." I don't follow your "math." The probability that Josephus invented Jesus is 50%. If he didn't make it up, he heard it from someone. The probability that this person invented Jesus is ...

The TF was omitted from the table of contents, which makes sense if it were an interpolation or at least interpolated, but less so if it were something written to drum up interest in the Antiquities. https://peterkirby.com/table-of-contents-josephus.html It might also be mentioned that you could ma...

?. Every free person who wants to convey a true account, who does not have to compete in the audience market, who does not have to create historical policy, who does not work in PR. :?: Hang on - you know the context in which I asked the question. You wrote that Luke was not writing history - hence...

?. Every free person who wants to convey a true account, who does not have to compete in the audience market, who does not have to create historical policy, who does not work in PR.

Luke's was focussed on the Story. Not History.

Only a question: the TF reconstructed by Dave Allen misses at all the name 'Jesus' but has the phrase 'he was believed the Messiah' or something of similar. Why can't the Samaritan Impostor slain by Pilate function in the same way? He also fits the minimalistic requisites for your theory: killed by...

Maryhelena:TF is in every manuscript we have. TF fits into the literary construct of folk heroes called Sign Prophets described by Josephus. Each of them has a common feature - they oppose the system and some religious prefiguration based on Tanakh is added to their actions. And at the same time, ev...