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From the Wikipedia page on James the Just (too busy to draw from other sources): In describing James' ascetic lifestyle, De Viris Illustribus quotes Hegesippus's account of James from the fifth book of Hegesippus's lost Commentaries: After the apostles, James the brother of the Lord surnamed the Jus...

But Rey your assumption about what the gospel was (= an eyewitness account of an actual historical event) determines for you what language you presume the narrative was written in. Even if Hebrew was the exclusive domain of the priesthood (and thus accounts for the high percentage of Hebrew texts at...

The over-arching concern here is whether a text equal to the Torah (= the gospel) could have been written in any other language other than Hebrew for Hebrews (Jews, Samaritans): http://books.google.com/books?id=Vs9YXAB_axYC&pg=PA170&dq=%22aramaic%22+torah+gospel+hebrew&hl=en&sa=X&...

But to sum up, your citation of Eusebius does nothing to further the claims of the existence of an Aramaic proto-gospel as invented by neo-Protestant 'myth-makers.' The text never existed outside of the imagination of those wanting to create our 'Jesus of history.'

The statement in Eznik in itself doesn't distinguish between a preference between the Syriac and Hebrew recension of the Pentateuch: "But first, where did Marcion get the idea of three heavens? It was because Moses said two heavens, but as the sectarians wander in all things, so also in this (p...

Andrew, I am not sure how this statement in Eusebius on its own disproves what is now the clear testimony of Origen and Jerome as to the existence of a specifically Hebrew 'proto-gospel.' Yes certainly if Eusebius was our only statement on the matter ... I am not sure what that would prove either wa...

Keep digging until you get to the Dialogue with Heraclides, Peri Pascha and then look at the date. http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/manuscripts/tura_papyri.htm This has nothing to do with the topic at hand. Why are you wasting everyone's time with this? Sad that your buddy Pete isn't around to join...

I never realized how utterly contrived the argument for Aramaic gospel primacy really is. I have Casey and this stupid debate to thank for that cloud being finally dispelled. Here's my final take away from this. Scholars sit in a high chair and they look down at the rest of us (sometimes rightly) wi...

Justin could distinguish between Hebrew and Aramaic: For the word (Satan) in the Jewish and Syrian tongue means 'apostate' (= שָׂטָה Hebrew, סטי Aramaic, both roots incorrectly identified in Osborne) and the word satan is a name from which 'serpent' (= נחש) is interpreted. From these two together co...

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