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MrMacSon asked: How much was Jerusalem really destroyed ~70 ad ?? In addition to Dio Cassius (as Michael BG noted), Josephus also says that except for three towers and the wall on the western side of the city, Jerusalem was otherwise razed to the ground in War 7.1.1. Caesar gave orders that they sh...

Bart Ehrman writes, “In the Greek the passage literally says that “those who were beside him came forth” in order to seize him, because they were saying, EXESTH.” The Greek is: “καὶ ἀκούσαντες οἱ παρ' αὐτοῦ ἐξῆλθον κρατῆσαι αὐτόν, ἔλεγον γὰρ ὅτι ἐξέστη.” (http://www.greekbible.com/index.php). When I...

I thought that the Greek does not have punctuation and so there is no comma in the Greek. I also read that the word order in Greek is not as important in Greek as in English. Therefore it could be translated as ‘he said to Peter Simon, “are you asleep?”’ and it means the same as ‘he said to Simon P...

1. How much was Jerusalem really destroyed ~70 ad ?? … 3. If the main or only record of what happened ~70 ad is Josephus eg. " De bello Jud .", could aspects of his literature have been later redacted or embellished, perhaps by transplanting aspect of the 2nd Roman-Jewish War into account...

(In John 21 it is implausibly unexpected given the previous appearances). I don’t see any statement that the resurrection appearance in Jn 21 is particularly unexpected. I see the normal resurrection motif that the disciples do not recognise Jesus (Jn 21:4, cf. Lk 24:16, Jn 20:14) because the earli...

From Hebrews 13: 11 The high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Place as a sin offering, but the bodies are burned outside the camp. 12 And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood. 13 Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, be...

outhouse wrote:

Michael BG wrote: (Good quote) Who are you quoting and from where?

wiki

I generally have an academic quote behind much of my opinion, less a few details I make obvious

Your bad then - when quoting Wikipedia you should provide the link.

Wikipedia is not an academic source but often it has references to them.

I have been reading The Gospels in Context Social and Political History in the Synoptic Tradition by Gerd Theissen and have reached the section on the Passion narrative. He concludes that it was written in Jerusalem between 41-44 CE. In the early 1980’s I concluded that the pre-Marcan empty tomb sto...

The openings addressing Theophilus are obvious interpolation to trick us into thinking the two books were written by the same guy. Anyone can tack on a mythical address to a character from Josephus, that's not a solid dating method. Why do the ascension stories between Luke and Acts not line up if ...

For me the appointment of the disciples is when he calls them as disciples. The commissioning of them as apostles is a variant reading (A D λ etc.). … (incidentally, D is not one of the manuscripts which has "apostles" there). I am surprised as I was quoting from a footnote to Gospel Para...