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... out of an earlier, neutral one. The main reason for their skepticism is that they think that Josephus was not Christian. But some scholars like Whiston and Eisenman and others whom we have discussed on the forum think that the current Testamonium is original.

There used to be those who believe, even today, that Josephus was a closet Christian. I think this goes back to William Whiston in the early decades of the 18th century. Do you suspect this? I've actually once ran across a business manager at one company I visited who confidently ...

... quite logical to me. There used to be those who believe, even today, that Josephus was a closet Christian. I think this goes back to William Whiston in the early decades of the 18th century. Do you suspect this? I've actually once ran across a business manager at one company I visited who ...

... to the seventeenth centuries A.D. 1 Didascalia et Constitutiones Apostolorum (Paderbom, 1905) There is an old but serviceable translation by Wm Whiston ( The Constitutions of the Holy Apostles by Clement in Greek and English (Primitive Christianity Reviv'd, Vol 2, 1711), which was later anonymously ...

The wording of the English translation seemed odd to my modern ear (Whiston published his translation in 1737 CE or so), so I looked closer. JOE Wars of the Jews 4:81 nor did anyone escape [Gamala] except two women (διεσώθη δὲ πλὴν δύο γυναικῶν οὐδείς), who ...

... is his own preference or was current among his fellow Jews. But what is important for our purposes is what was actually depicted upon the veil: Whiston translates it as "all that was mystical in the heavens," but the Greek phrase is more literally rendered as "the entire heavenly ...

... promoters of the mourners for the doctors stood in a body in the temple, procuring recruits for their faction..." This differs from the Whiston translation. Next, you have to accept that the Markan Passage refers to this moment at the Temple Slaughter of4 BCE. This would imply that James ...

... Oracles might happily join Shiloh and the Star and other candidates alongside Daniel, which must remain primary (at least for Josephus). While Whiston would have had no difficulty agreeing with you that the reference must be to something in the book of Daniel, Josephus never actually says that. ...

... Josephus uses a whole lot), here follows. I do not pretend to have found or presented every possible incidence. Analysis of the Ambiguous Oracle: Whiston's translation: JOE Wars of the Jews 4:386 These men [the Zealot Party], therefore, trampled upon all the laws of men, and laughed at the laws ...

... the soldiers, and came up to them, and stoned [λεύουσιν] the greatest number of them, although some of them ran away wounded That translation (Whiston) makes it sound like the crowd pelted the soldiers with stones (happens all the time in modern Israel between Palestinian youth and Israeli ...