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There is huge doubt that in the first century CE the Sanhedrin had the power to sentence anyone to death. You need sources for this. … Now if you had some church father complaining about this not being a tradition, you might have something beyond the guesses your providing. I don’t need to prove so...

Luke only edited a pre-existent Hebrew Acts known to Epiphanius. The Stephen story is certainly older than Luke's redaction of Acts. Stephen exhibits typical Samaritan sectatian interests. His speech has been often noted to exhibit Samaritan traits Do you mean Epiphanius of Salamis born c 315? Is t...

In the recent past I thought that the author of Acts had source documents or traditions that he redacted in the same way he redacted the gospel of Mark and Q in Luke. I recognised that he created the Council of Jerusalem, but I accepted that he had a source or tradition about some meeting of apostle...

Firstly I note that you have not answered my question: Maybe our views on how to debate issues are so far apart there is no benefit in our continuing this discussion? I'm not trying to persuade anyone here. I wrote: I was truly interested in reading your case for your position and your examination o...

Michael BG, I understand and share your concern with the provenance of the Shem Tov Hebrew Matthew. Howard notes that it "reflects contamination by Jewish scribes during the Middle Ages" (pg. 178) and its "many revisions were designed to bring the Hebrew into harmony with the Greek a...

Then you argue that (I assume) Luke presents Paul as a murderer and because Luke says so it has to be true. Why do you constantly assume? Because you are often very vague. It you didn’t mean Luke then who are you referring to when you wrote: Not only that YOU have to ask yourself if these authors w...

She (Candida Moss) talks about the context of punishment of this time period. My favourate quote from Candida Moss is “Stephen offers what is possibly the least effective speech of defense in recorded history.” She writes. “the traditional history of Christian martyrdom is mistaken. … Very few Chri...

Dear Michael BG: Once again, I come not to praise outhouse, but to keep him unburied. I have no wish to bury outhouse or curtail his postings. It seems very odd that in another thread he requested Secret Alias to post his evidence, but seems surprised that anyone should require the same of him. (Se...

Simplest solution seems to be that Nazareth was a very small town (given the archaeological findings), not noteworthy enough to have been mentioned in prominent writings previously, and the actual hometown of Jesus. None of the other theories mentioned seemed to be more plausible than this. I didn’...

Do you know you are quoting the Pulpit Commentary published in 1880 for use by Christian ministers as an aid in writing their sermons? Did you know their opinion still remains a valid one? https://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php?albumid=25842&pictureid=572005&thumb=1 This is still not evidence...