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And that is where this whole argument rests - Josephus and his two writing 'hats' - historian and prophetic historian. In your view in what sense is Josephus (a) a historian and (b) a prophetic historian? When what Josephus says can be backed up from other sources he is wearing his historian's hat....

maryhelena wrote:And that is where this whole argument rests - Josephus and his two writing 'hats' - historian and prophetic historian.

In your view in what sense is Josephus (a) a historian and (b) a prophetic historian?

I trust you are being entirely facetious.

What I have missed so far is the evidence that the evangelists did see significance in a specific number of years between Jesus' crucifixion and the destruction of the Temple.

This reminds me of Hugh Schonfeld's "Passover Plot. Schonfeld argues that raising Lazarus from the dead was a dry run for Jesus' plot to fake his own death. He speculates that there was a drug used on Lazarus that Jesus also took when he was on the cross. This would have been the "vinegar...

Stephan Huller wrote:Tests? Like what?

The usual sorts of tests applied to hypotheses. Example, predictions. If X then we would expect to find Y.

e.g. if Mark wrote with a chronological scheme in mind we would expect to find some pointer or reference to it in his gospel.

Have you considered tests that could be undertaken for this hypothesis?

If the author was caught up in a series of persecutions and is executed along with the principal character, then the abrupt ending makes all the more sense and is more dramatic when the document is then discovered after the fact-as was the case with Acts of the Apostles. If, if, if . . . . all very...

Well, Neil, you indicated a way out for Carrier on this mess, but that's not what someone would understand when reading it (less than 4 times!) . So reading with comprehension and according to the fundamentals of basic logic means I'm "finding a way out"? If I read with hostile intent I d...

First a reminder: 1 Corinthians 2:8 "None of the rulers [ 'archons' ] of this age understood this; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory." In his book, "On The Historicity Of Jesus" (OHJ) p. 190, Carrier made this startling remark , which would kill hi...