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Very interesting stuff, David. FWIW I have always thought that the 'tax' in question was the religious half shekhel redemption. Interestingly Celsus never mentions taxation as a 'problem with Christianity.' I think the editor of the Catholic gospels misrepresented the original argument.

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Schwartz on 21 CE = "the seventh year" of Tiberius http://books.google.com/books?id=rd5OB4PtlCUC&pg=PA184&lpg=PA184&dq=%22seventh+year%22+tiberius+%2221+ce%22&source=bl&ots=6ffqbnFG4c&sig=dINtgnAiNIsosqQn5jBYDrH3Eek&hl=en&sa=X&ei=nBB5U7SxIcSYqAbU6IL4BQ&a...

The fact that ideas come to a particular person doesn't mean it's "their idea." We are merely conditioned to open ourselves up to certain pieces of evidence. Its intellectual determinism. The pure soul just happens to be more open to truth. It just comes down to not being personally attach...