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... Second, and more to the point, the word "former" with respect to Ananus is not represented in the Greek in the passage you have adduced; Whiston added it for the sake of clarity. I will use Feldman instead, and of course include the Greek itself: Luke 3.1-2: 1 Now in the fifteenth year ...

... 214 This curtain had also embroidered upon it the entire heavenly spectacle [ἅπασαν τὴν οὐράνιον θεωρίαν, all that was mystical in the heavens (Whiston), a panorama of the heavens (Loeb)], excepting that of the signs, representing living creatures. There seems to have been a strain of Judaism, ...

... your statement on the Fleeing Youth. I have the Youth as a Recruit of the Priesthood at the 4 BCE Slaughter - see the Thackeray Translation as the Whiston Translation is found wanting at this point. I also have the "Beloved Disciple" as the Tenth Legion, which is in Jerusalem for its ...

... proposed to himself to go to Rome immediately to look after Caesar's determination about him... "Alright, class, name one Group who would, as Whiston translates, have 'greater piety and purity' to furnish High Priests...Yes!!! That's correct: The Hasmoneans!.. Good answer!!" We're almost ...

... of the recruits in the Temple before this "fishing" activity was disrupted. (See Thackaray Translation of Josephus over the corrupted Whiston Translation.) The other interesting aspect of this is "Zebedee". From the ever-Politicized Wiki-P: "Zeb: "Zeb (variant spelling ...

... that strikes me as also being potentially noteworthy is: 1:246 Jesus, no patronym – Owned a house big as a castle. Governor of Tiberias? In the Whiston translation at least, Josephus describes his big house as being similar to a Citadel. I had assumed this to be Jesus son of Sapphias - governor ...

... opinion about divine retribution causing the calamity of 70. Josephus reports in Book 20 that James was handed over for stoning, according to Whiston's translation. There is also a longer chain of inference leading to the same conclusion about Origen's recollection should Whiston have erred ...

... 1876 ISAAC 2046 3512 3432 Not Available 3308 1980 JACOB 2106 3572 3492 Not Available Not Available 2046 The rest of the dates came from William Whiston, who might not be the most reliable person to summarize such data (he took enormous liberties). I did search out the statements in Josephus' ...

... 1876 ISAAC 2046 3512 3432 Not Available 3308 1980 JACOB 2106 3572 3492 Not Available Not Available 2046 The rest of the dates came from William Whiston, who might not be the most reliable person to summarize such data (he took enormous liberties). I did search out the statements in Josephus' ...

... 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. Jerome Murphy O'Conner suggests ...