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But if we can still see the inscription and if the inscription has something to do with the NT why couldn't someone in the second century have seen it and used it as a basis for his addition to the original letter in the Marcionite canon (Origen makes clear chapter 16 not in the Marcionite canon).

The editor of the Catholic NT [Polycarp?] was obsessed with Corinth probably because he lived there for a while

The analogy was the Taliban is to Bieber what a Pharisee was to Roman Antiquities. Whether or not that's a good analogy is open to debate. Perhaps the Taliban becoming a contributor to Fox News would be more appropriate

But Josephus started out as the fiercest of Taliban and then ends up covering Justin Bieber all to prove that Judaism was compatible with Justin Bieber and moreover contemporary Judaism and its interest in Daniel was wrong. Doesn't require a conspiracy of sorts? Isn't that implicit in your comments?.

Greco-Roman culture was superior to barbarian Jewish culture, to the better part of the people of Rome anyway, and the gig paid well. But such a proposition was explicitly denied by contemporary Pharisees. Think the Taliban cheering on the 2008 implosion of the stock market (and what religious type...

"I don't think" happens to be the starting point for academic thesis including the disproving of the authenticity of the Pastorals. At a discussion board it should be okay to say A doesn't match B. It isn't proved but these discussion groups are by their very nature the beginning of someth...

What we have here is a mistake by the author of 2 Corinthians. Trajan had annexed Nabatea in 106 AD. King Aretas, king of the Nabateans, had minted coins in Damascus. But this was in the first century BC. No, this was your mistake. You mistook AD for BC. I don't think that an ancient writer could h...

Truly the only thing stranger would be a Christian feigning to be a Jew writing after the manner of the Romans. Not really. The Pharisees eschewed foreign influence. That's the part we have to get over. What would make a (former) Pharisee give up what was essential to his tradition and embark on a ...

From Turner's article in the Journal of Theological Studies. The existence of a chronographer of the tenth year of Antoninus Pius (AD 147-148) has been assumed in explanation of the curious coincidence that both Clement of Alexandria (once) and Epiphanius (once) employ this year as a term in chronol...

It is a curious fact about Josephus that while he delights in narrating stories about portents and miracles, 'when it comes to expecting concrete extraordinary actions of divine salvation in the present, he was reluctant.' This same reluctance characterizes his approach to Nebuchadnezzar's dream .....