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Hi Ficino, Thanks for this. It is very interesting. In my self published book "The Evolution of Christs and Christianities" in 2005, I noted that Eusebius used the phrase “still to this day,” εἰς ἔτι τε νυν, and very similar phrases throughout his work. I think I pointed out six or seven i...

Hi EdwardM. http://images.nymag.com/listings/art/5greekroman.jpg The text is a little misleading as cross or stavros was not being used as it is used today. Stavros (Cross) did not mean the T-shaped symbol that it means today. A better translation than cross would be wooden pike. The clue is that Te...

Hi Metacrock, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sPVEBAtwmg Hi Nili, Could you offer two or three examples of Whealey's mental gymnastics, PJ? Sure. Twentieth century controversy over the Testimonium Flavianum can be distinguished from controversy over the text in the early modern period insofar as it...

Hi Nili, I was going to say that I was not distorting anything, but only making a joke. However, all jokes are distortions in some sense, so I cannot argue there. I don't know. If a man wants to present a menorah to his bride at their wedding, that's his right. Who am I to judge? Warmly, Jay Raskin ...

Hi Stephan, Tertullian knew Latin and Greek. He probably read all the Hebrew scriptures in Greek and did not realize that the Greek letter Tau and the Hebrew letter Tav are different. The mystery for me comes at the end of the passage: Now, inasmuch as all these things are also found among you, and ...

Hi Neil, http://i0.wp.com/www.jewishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Pope-Francis-052314.jpg?w=477 It is good to know that the Catholic Church is now liberal enough to accept that there may be good Jews in the world, at least as long as they, like Eusebius disguised as Josephus, proclaim Jesus a...

Hi Nili, Could you offer two or three examples of Whealey's mental gymnastics, PJ? Sure. Twentieth century controversy over the Testimonium Flavianum can be distinguished from controversy over the text in the early modern period insofar as it seems generally more academic and less sectarian. While t...

Hi Metacrock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHash5takWU Hi Roger, I remember laughing a lot at all the logical gymnastics that she was employing. I thought it definitely reflected the thinking of a Nun without very much critical thinking ability. The fact that the Testimonium was not challenged unt...

Hi Beowulf, Thanks for this. It is interesting the way she portrays this. It is an "intellectual controversy" that started when "in the sixteenth century the text was for the first time pronounced a forgery by some scholars." I would say that the issue started when Eusebius, circ...

Hi Roger, I remember laughing a lot at all the logical gymnastics that she was employing. I thought it definitely reflected the thinking of a Nun without very much critical thinking ability. The fact that the Testimonium was not challenged until modern times does not reflect modern historical revisi...