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We have some papyri from Egypt regarding census-taking in the second century AD. What we don't have is anything from Rome - or practically any other region. http://www.kchanson.com/ANCDOCS/greek/census.html http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/ccgg_1016-9008_1993_num_4_1_1372 Than...

The difficulty would be that, if we drew the category loosely enough, we would probably discover "divine beings who suffer" in Australia or Mexico or somewhere. It's too big a category.

That's very kind. I got the reference from Hengel, and I then went to a PDF of the Loeb of Petronius. Once found, the rest was easy. In the preface to "Forgery and counter-forgery", Ehrman stated that he got his graduate students to do the research for him, and one of them to translate quo...

Hengel (p.50) quotes the Digest on the subject of where the crucified robbers should be placed. From the Digest of Roman Law , book 48, 19.28.15: (15) It has been held by many authorities that notorious robbers should be hanged in those very places which they had subjected to pillage, in order that ...

Metacrock wrote:I've already proved they did some times.

Did you have some ancient references for this? It would be good to look them up!

Martin Hengel, Crucifixion (1977), pg. 76. The epitaph of a master murdered by his slave, from Amysos in Caria, finally records that the citizens of the town - and not the Roman authorities - 'hung the murderer alive for the wild beasts and birds of prey'. 19 It dates from the second or first centu...

I can't find whatever Ehrman is talking about in the Satyricon . I wonder if he might have made a mistake in the citation. Either that or its just way to subtle for me. Found it! In the narrative of the married woman from Ephesus (111, 5, in the Loeb edition p228-9). And it is very relevant: At thi...

"Now there is a village in the land of the Jews, thirty-five stadia from Jerusalem, in which Jesus Christ was born, as you can ascertain also from the registers of the taxing made under Cyrenius, your first procurator in Judaea." (Justin Martyr, First Apology, 34) "the Roman archives...

I don't think you can use that reference from Josephus about what Jews did during an active revolt to what the Romans themselves practiced during normal occupation. Jews looted armories too, that doesn't mean that looting armories was a normal practice under Roman occupation. No, I agree: the circu...

No luck getting any access to Artemidorus Daldianus.