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Just following up on this --- seems that some early Christian writers felt that the spirit of god had to depart-- do you think I am on the right track here with jerome? None of the gospels mention voices crying out when Jesus died other than Jesus himself. Later-- I think Josephus used the symbology...

But if that is the case---- how could Alexander have read about himself???

Just giving you a hard time!!

I like what I am reading here--- in some previous posts on this site, I was trying to figure out why Jesus was supposedl crucified in the thirties--- or there abouts. I saw Daniel as a possible catalyst and had heard that there was some evidence that the Dead Sea scroll writers expected the messiah ...

The entire article can be found here:

http://www.etsjets.org/files/JETS-PDFs/ ... urtner.pdf

I might have a little more insight as to why Jerome may be conflating Josephus' temple voices with the time of Jesus' death. I ran across a Christian site that talks about the history and legends of the temple rending-- and one part of it gets into Jerome and his damaged lintels. It appears he may b...

I hadn't read this entire thread yet so forgive me if this has been addressed but I just ran across an assertation on the web that Gamaliel wrote a parody of Matthew which was mentioned in the Talmud? Some are trying to say that this means that Matthew was written earlier than 70ad? I couldn't find ...

Here is a weird quote that I found that kind of relates to christians trying to tie josephus and his "let us remove hence" to jesus' crucifixion: Also in the Historia passionis Domini we read likewise: “Also in the Gospel of the Nazarenes we read that at the time of Messiah’s death the lin...

DC--- yes, I have seen fundamentalists sites try to tie the Pentecost that Josephus talks about with regard to the priests in the evening (and occurring in the 60s ce) to the day of Pentecost cited in Acts that occurs in the morning. They say they are linked-- the Holy Ghost left the temple and then...

That is very interesting stuff Ficino. It is hard to imagine how archaic things were back then. It sure seems like there could have been opportunity for a few errors and miscalculations.

Ok thanks for your input. I really think Josephus was talking events in the timeframe of 60sad and Eusebius may have accidentally put them in the wrong time frame somehow.