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For the sake of expediency (and promoting simplicity), I shall put the segment from the Slavonic Testimonium and Josephus's two segments on "the Egyptian" underneath each other (can't figure out how to do it side-by-side) Slavonic Testimonium But it was his habit rather to remain in front ...

maryhelena wrote: Perhaps two accounts, two stories, are being combined. The lives of two historical men fused into the literary composite figure of the gospel Jesus - or 'wonder-doer'. i.e. the gospel Jesus story combines a revolutionary 'Jesus' with a pacifist 'Jesus'. And where the heck did the ...

TedM wrote:
I would ask - why did the author of the Slavonic Josephus do that? Why didn't he name him in this passage? Why did he have the man released initially?

And where the heck did the author of the Slavonic Testimonium get his/her information?!

maryhelena wrote: The point being made in this Slavonic Josephus story is that the 'wonder-doer' figure is not a revolutionary, not a zealot type figure. This is miles away from the Josephan figure of the Egyptian. Yes, many people wanted the 'wonder-doer' figure to defeat the Romans - but the Slavo...

maryhelena wrote: Viewed in the light of the account in Slavonic Josephus, this 'thirty thousand men' (War) looks to be either exaggerated, an interpolation or simply a devise to suggest that the Egyptian story is a literary construct not historical reality. When a Roman army/legion had around 5 or ...

TedM wrote: Interesting discussion. I decided to go back and re-read the Slavonic Josephus passages about Jesus. There are a number of interesting parallels to Josephus' Egyptian here worth noting. I'm curious if you have given much analysis to the controversial passage? I've bolded and colored a fe...

MrMacSon wrote: Another entity in the texts of Pauline/Acts, that might be a person in the early 2nd century, or borrowed from this person, is Aquila But is Aquila a unique enough name to make an assumption of identity? If the name is not paired, also in the non-biblical sources, with Priscilla, or ...

MrMacSon wrote: Regarding point ['accomplishment'] 3, Acts also changed things from the Pauline letters - Acts claims Paul went to Jerusalem right after his conversion, while Paul says he didn't go to Jerusalem until three years later. Acts has Paul going to Jerusalem five time, while Paul says he o...

PS to MrMacSon (on the dating of the Gospels): But I think your earlier comment about Lucuas of Cyrene, who was a leader in the Kitos war, 115-117 CE, and the similarity to the name mentioned in Acts 13:1 (Lucius of Cyrene) is really interesting. If they are the same person (the other names in that ...