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DCHindley wrote: Had to use ABBYY Screenshot Reader to scan and analyze it as a table, paste that from MS Clipboard to MS Excel, then copy those cells from Excel and paste into the Excel to bbCode page. Clicking a button writes all that messy table code into another box, that can be copied & pa...

To MrMacSon:
Thank you! I'll try that. The easiest thing, of course, would be to just attach a pdf, or photograph, but I couldn't find any info on that. So I assume it's not possible.

Did you see my question on Tacitus-Festus-Nero?

MrMacSon wrote: I proposed a number of years ago that Tacitus originally wrote that Nero sent the Procurator Porcius Festus to put down the Christians/Chrestians. Christian interpolators, misunderstanding, changed it to Pontius Pilate, and they changed Chrestus to Christ and Nero to Tiberius. Thus ...

MrMacSon wrote: Note also that Jay correlated his argument with reference to Antiquities. 20.8.10 - 10. Upon Festus’s coming into Judea, it happened that Judea was afflicted by the robbers, while all the villages were set on fire, and plundered by them. And then it was that the sicarii, as they wer...

Fair enuf

Sorry, the weblink above should be
http://lenaeinhorn.se/wp-content/upload ... .11.25.pdf
pages 26-28

MrMacSon wrote: Paul's story could be embellished, too (beyond Acts embellishments about Paul) - Paul says he only went to Jerusalem three times; Acts has Paul going to Jerusalem five time, Paul says he didn't go to Jerusalem until three years after his conversion; Acts claims Paul went to Jerusale...

To MrMacSon and Ben C. Smith (regarding the Pauline texts, and their internal indications of time-period): If the parallels between the New Testament and the chronicles of Josephus do indeed imply a time shift, the pattern is the following: the time has been shifted almost entirely by changing the n...

MrMacSon wrote: "It is also noticable that Annals 15.44 refers incorrectly to Pontius Pilate by the mid 1st-century title of procurator, instead of his then correct title of prefect (praefectus)." That is one of the three (that I am aware of) suspicious aspects of Annals 15.44. The other ...

maryhelena wrote: The Slavonic comparison with Antiquites and War is not the wonder-doer story - the Slavonic version of War has it's own Egyptian story. The Slavonic wonder-doer story, the Slavonic Testimonium, is set in the time of Pilate - it's Egyptian story is set in the time of Felix. OF COUR...