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... such as the English Translation of the Apostolic Constitutions (I found an out-of-copyright revised translation of a really old ET by William Whiston), from an exposition about how early proto-orthodox Christians had adopted and adapted Jewish Synagogue prayers in the production of the Apostolic ...

... Some of these books they translated themselves, others they reproduced (sometimes unattributed) from (much) earlier translators like William Whiston, or commissioned translations by more or less well known (Protestant) churchmen of letters. Thirteen years later, these 24 volumes were in turn ...

... may almost as well be alleged against a hundred other remarkable passages in Josephus's works as against these before us. [Josephus, William Whiston, p. 997] It is only natural to assume that Clement is citing exactly what he read in 'Josephus' as he read in his copies of the writings of ...

Is Josephus ever understood to become a Christian somewhere? All signs point to this being the last drama in his story. I think Whiston himself thought Josephus was a Christian. Whiston seems to have thought Josephus a Christian due to the ‘christian’ passages in Josephus as well as the ...

Secret Alias wrote:Is Josephus ever understood to become a Christian somewhere? All signs point to this being the last drama in his story.

I think Whiston himself thought Josephus was a Christian.

... interest in upholding Josephus's - and the existing corpus associated with 'the historical Josephus - authenticity. Here is the entry mentioned by Whiston which alludes Josephus to Jesus. The rest of the passage is more than eye-opening too. Just shows you how much stuff in our possession hasn't ...

... have outlined makes clear that the hypomnema was post 100 CE. 4. Clement of Alexandria's 'Flavius Josephus the Jew' text which was written 147 CE. Whiston says that this can't be Suidas's text but I think it is. Notice the title 'hypomnemata' is the same as the 'hypomnemata' of 'Hegesippus' and ...

... may almost as well be alleged against a hundred other remarkable passages in Josephus's works as against these before us. Again, I am not sure Whiston is correct here. If you start citing the evidence of variant editions of Josephus's history they can be broadly defined as follows: 1. a hypomnema ...

And don't tell me that Mason and Thackeray and Whiston didn't stare into the abyss for a brief second when they realized how fragile the claims for the authenticity of Antiquities really are. As the big man once said, when you stare into the abyss the abyss stares right back at you.

Why suddenly don't we believe Clement I believe Clement. I don't believe Clement says what you seem to think he says. No, no Whiston says it too. I gave the reference. You want me to post it again? Who cares about what Whiston said? Justus and Photius Photius is correct that Justus ends ...