Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

A new (2018) book, Philo of Alexandria: An Intellectual Biography, by Maren R. Niehoff, proposes that he had a change in philosophy after his mission to Rome. A review is here: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2018/2018-05-36.html I have just received a copy of the book. Though I have not always agreed with...

...with abstracts is online and searchable by keyword. https://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=33 For example, the abstract for T.C. Schmidt, Yale University The Testimonium Flavianum in Light of Jewish and Greco-Roman Reports about Jesus (30 min) may look interesting...

The Egyptian Exploration Society has very kindly placed the Mark 1 papyrus fragment (p.Oxy. 5343) edition online. The link is here (at "available here"):
https://www.ees.ac.uk/news/poxy-lxxxiii-5345

Perhaps one factor among others, at least within rabbinic Judaism, was eventual increased reliance on Aramaic language, especially in Babylonian Talmud?

According to Antonio Frova, L'Iscrizione Di Ponzio Pilato A Cesarea (Rendiconti Istituto Lombardo, accademia di scienze e lettere, classe di lettere 95). Milan, 1961. Pp. 419–34, I plan and 2 plates, the inscription was discovered in an archaeological excavation found and photographed in reuse in si...

http://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/j ... %80%94-doa
or the Jordan Times, "'Jordan Codices' proven fake" via google news

I did read that assertion, but was unpersuaded.

I may have missed something, but I think the question--"Why can't there be both a literary gospel Jesus and a historical Jesus crucified under Pilate?"--still stands.
For example, perhaps we can agree, Alexander the Great was historical, and there are literary tales about him.

There is more than one Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible. Language is more than lists of words. Some words change meaning over time. Perhaps these Hebrew to Greek to English selections follow some personal preference.

Now available online (thanks to Charlotte Hempel) is an illustrated lecture by Eibert Tigchelaar. "The lecture, titled 'Beautiful Bookhands and Careless Characters: An Alternative Approach to the Dead Sea Scrolls', focused on his recent work on the scribal hands of the scrolls and what they mig...