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I certainly did not say that here was no relationship between the Emmaus narrative in Luke 24 the Testimonium Flavianum ...and yet your conclusion is that two authors (the forger of the TF and the author of *Ev/Luke-Acts) arrived independently one from the other Again, that was not my contention. I...

About the relation between the Emmaus episode and the TF, Richard Carrier writes: On this much I agree with Goldberg: his previous demonstration that the TF is just mindlessly, uncritically, and slavishly copied from the Emmaus narrative in Luke is in my opinion conclusive (see Gary Goldberg, “The ...

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...

What, if anything, has been documented of this — Rome was also burned and ransacked multiple times — after, say, 250 CE ?? (to, say, 600 CE ?) I'll try to answer this, though I'm not sure how relevant it is. Rome was sacked by the Visigoths under Alaric in 410. Rome was sacked again by the Vandals ...

I am denying that it is used in Josephus to introduce a single person getting executed. It is, however, used to introduce a single person being executed in Eusebius Martyrs of Palestine 9.6: 5. Thereupon Firmilianus, being greatly enraged, sentenced them to capital punishment without inflicting tor...

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...

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 centur...

A TLG search returns 10 instances of γίνεται δέ in the Antiquities: the three cited by Thackeray, the Testimonium Flavianum (Ant.18.63-64) and six more. have you checked that all the other 6 instances happen to be exactly "overtures" of an episode? Thackeray has pointed out just a such fu...

Now, what has recently converted me to Dr. Eisler's view is the very opening of our passage—the two little words γίνεται δέ, commonly translated, as I have myself previously translated them, "Now there lived." I always felt I was taking a certain liberty in so translating them, and now it...

May I ask for an example of an obviously Christian passage that the compiler of the Separated Edition left in? Here's one: Slavonic Josephus - Lazarus.PNG The Greek text of the Jewish War mentions Mannaeus, the son of Lazarus (i.e., a Hellenized form of the fairly common Hebrew name Eleazar). In th...